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Letters Thanks
for Covering Stories the Thank you for a great publication. - Cerise
Hiram Mass
News Informative Your in-depth analysis of mostly local politics is great. I find the flavor of your publication to be quite unique and I think it really captures an attitude of many of your readers as well as simply bringing to light many issues that I would not be aware of otherwise. - Jerod
Peitsmeyer Harassment
of Republican - Ryan
S. Robinson 60’s
Feminist Says Movement Has Ms. Sommers examines what has happened when we are given convoluted numbers to tell us what we should do. We should all start to see that something’s wrong when we are made to believe boys are the problem. I’d like to thank Ms. Sommers for shedding some insightfulness into this issue–maybe in time to change before more harm is done. Remember, the original message was equality. I believed that was for boys, too. - Susan
Yarger New
Wayland Resident Missed Our Message What is unacceptable is that you use your position to attack Gore on Florida. What does this have to do with your objectives? Traditionalists are not only traditionalists on human nature and sex and education but also on democracy. The vote must be counted. European Conservatives would not even talk to people who do not have reverence for a vote. It is truly a sin to sacrifice the fight for kids to the worst aspects of politics. I wish I could find groups who really fight against nonsense, sexual deviation and political correctness. - Francis
Woehrling Editor’s Comment: We appreciate your thoughtful letter, but we must point out that we did not comment about the election fight in Florida. We were concerned with the chicanery of a Harvard professor and the Boston Globe in their ongoing efforts to elect Al Gore. They don’t care what they do or say as long as it will help whatever objective they have at the moment. Another
Child Loses A Parent - Name Withheld Boston
School Superintendent - Name Withheld Editor’s Comment: The film mentioned above is “That’s a Family!” which aims to “explode the cultural myth of the ‘normal’ family” or “a married mother and father and their biological offspring.” It’s from the same people who produced, “It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School.” Educators
Promote Sex With Children I urge all parents to look at what these so-called educators are teaching your kids. It might be totally against what you have strived to instill in them their entire lives. - Nicole
Hatstien Milwaukee
Battling ‘Homosexual Cabal’ Too - Ingrid
Schlueter, Producer Boy
Scouts Teach ‘Norm’ I respect most attackers’ intentions, but their attacks are consistently based on misunderstandings of the actual case and on false assumptions about the ways that scouting is able to influence our society. The case grew out of James Dale’s suit asking the New Jersey courts to reinstate him as a Boy Scout leader. He felt his growth would have been easier if he had known gay men as role models in his teen years, and he said so in the New Jersey press. He turned to scouting to provide such role models for boys in the future, in part through his own continued participation as a gay leader. The Scouts said, “No.” Many critics react as if the Boy Scouts were denying services to boys. That is not the case. Mr. Dale was an adult leader, not a Scout. Scouting is exemplary in its efforts to include all boys, especially in its ability to develop character and ethics across all religions and ethnicities. Scouting does not teach bigotry of any kind. Second, Mr. Dale was not excluded just because he is gay. The Boy Scouts make no effort to discover the sexual orientation of any person. He was excluded because he was quoted in the press as a spokesman for the Rutgers Alliance arguing for homosexual role models for teenage boys. In doing this, he became a public symbol of advocacy for conduct that is outside the scope of the Scouts’ endorsement. In order for the Scouts to include all boys, they must limit their endorsement to a narrow and non-controversial code of conduct. This code consists of characteristics and principles that we “all” agree on and can therefore confidently recommend to boys as a sound basis for earning respect. It is summarized in the Scout Law: a Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. This is a totally positive model of behavior, but it is narrow and a lot of normal adult behavior does not fit into it. Scouting does not condemn conduct outside of this model, but it also intentionally does not teach it. A clear example is the Scouts’ narrow handling of religious practices. They teach that religion is important and require religious participation for advancement and awards, but they carefully avoid prescribing the religion. That choice is left to the boy’s family, and religious instruction is left to the religious institution that they choose. Where Mr. Dale went wrong was his insistence that scouting should be the vehicle for providing the role model he lacked. The Scouts cannot provide all that every boy needs, and we should not ask them to. In fact, they have succeeded precisely because they only teach “the norm” and leave it to the boy’s family to add the rest. This means that they cannot lead society in expanding the norm, but must follow. For ninety years, the Boy Scouts have stayed in the mainstream of society’s changing norms by following a simple rule: when a lesson is controversial, withdraw the lesson. But how do you withdraw a lesson when the boys’ leader is also that lesson’s public representative? That is the situation that Mr. Dale created and that is why he was removed. As the Supreme Court’s published opinion put it, “Dale’s presence in the Boy Scouts would, at the very least, force the organization to send a message, both to the youth members and the world, that the Boy Scouts accept homosexual conduct as a legitimate form of behavior.” The scouts’ “offense” is that they chose not to endorse homosexual conduct and then they defended their right to make that choice. - Name Withheld U.S.
Faces Moral Equivalent of Great Depression I think that just as the nation was financially bankrupted in the 30’s, it has become morally bankrupt and we are facing a deep depression in morals. There has been a complete breakdown of moral and health safeguards at the common sense and judicial levels. I fear that the fight to vote conservatives into office will need to continue this January even if Bush is sworn in. The radical leftists are going to open a bunch of cans of worms throughout his term and throw them in the laps of conservatives to provoke and unseat them. Conservatives fighting for Bush have to be ready for a long haul war against the liberals for years to come. - Cyril
Pomart Clinton
Waited Before Announcing There are no pro-life demonstrations allowed by Communist China. In fact, the country is a police state, so there are no safety or security problems in spite of what the FDA had said earlier. Perhaps the Clinton administration did not want the Red Chinese connection to come out too soon so that it would not jeopardize the establishment of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. Clinton signed the PNTR bill into law on October 10th, after the FDA announcement on RU-486. And now that China has permanent relations, it won’t have to worry about the possibility of having to pay higher-than-normal tariffs on the RU-486 it exports to America. The Hua Lian Pharmaceutical factory had to be upgraded so that the RU-486 it produces would meet U.S. standards. The Rockefeller Foundation supplied $2 million to “help” pay for this upgrade. But this should not surprise anyone familiar with how the Rockefeller Foundation has bankrolled the abortion movement in America for many decades. Many Americans already know how the Chinese Communist regime enforces a one-child-per-family policy and how it routinely forces women to undergo abortions. Now this same totalitarian regime will be an accomplice–along with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Clinton administration–in the destruction of American pre-born babies through chemical means. - Lillian
Smith Abortions
to Please Men Do This doesn’t sound like the image the abortion lobby is trying to cultivate: that women are unfettered, empowered and free, and boldly going where no woman has gone before. Will NOW ever carry protest signs that say, “I did it to keep the man in my life” or “It may well be a child but I had to choose?” Furthermore, the fetal tissue trafficking industry is profiting from 4400 abortions per day. The dilation extraction method (partial birth abortion) is increasingly common because of the value of the fetal tissue. The abortionist must turn the baby and empty the skull before full delivery to add value to the tissue samples. The AMA has stated that there is never a medical necessity for this procedure to protect the mother’s health, but abortionists and abortion supporters continue this masquerade to profit from the procedure. - Jack
Granger
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