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Almost 30 years ago, I drove my 12-year-old son to a weekend camping trip with his Boy Scout troop. We arrived at 8 in the evening. The boys were in their tents, and the scoutmaster, assistant scoutmaster and two father chaperones were in a camper trailer drinking whiskey sours; the scoutmaster was pretty well in the bag. I reluctantly left my son there and worried all weekend about his being supervised by that group of "morally straight" men. I would have been far happier to have him in the care of a responsible gay scoutmaster like James Dale...
Perhaps you are right to say "gays are no more likely to molest children than are heterosexuals," but given the fact that there are adults who would molest children, we take natural precautions, which is why an adult male leads a Boy Scout troop--not a girls' troop--and normally there is not any danger. If the adult is gay, however, even under your hypothesis, the precaution is weakened, and tragedy could follow. HUGO R. ZEA BARRIGA Lima...
Spring in Minnesota and the first lawn mowing and first outdoor supper, and then it's spring prom. White limos the size of trawlers float up to a hotel marquee and disgorge boys in black tuxes and girls in black or turquoise or tangerine or emerald, and they troop in through the revolving doors, prepared to execute a waltz and make small talk if necessary...
...move in, and conservative charitable groups that don't want to serve gays--are increasingly using the First Amendment as a shield. At the heart of these conflicts is this question: If all Americans must eventually associate with gay people, even in a close-knit setting like a Scout troop, how will some continue to express their contrary moral views about gays...
...Scouts attorney George Davidson protests that their anti-gay position is "hardly under a rock," but he admits that if you check out SCOUTING.ORG, read the Boy Scout Handbook or go with your son to a troop meeting, you'll hear nothing about gays. He also acknowledges that, perversely, if they were more stridently anti-gay--if they were the Boy Scouts of the K.K.K.--they would have a clearer First Amendment claim that admitting gays would destroy everything they stand for. "Look, if this were a business, the Boy Scouts would simply put a few lines [of anti...