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The kick that started it all. Organizations Scouting
For All (National) Current
News and Articles American Psychological
Association Episcopal Church United
Church of Christ Unitarian
Universalist Association Religious Action
Center For Reform Judaism Friends General
Conference of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) United Methodist
Church BSA Discriminates Inclusive Scouting.net
World Organization Of The Scout Movement
http://www.scout.org/front/index.shtml
Scouting For
All Movie The Center Californians For
Justice National
Gay and Lesbian Task Force
http://www.ngltf.org/index.cfm Activist
San Diego Youth
Organizations Campfire USA Acronyms
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and other information: ACLU --American Civil Liberties Union ADL --Anti-Defamation League BSA --Boy Scouts of America The Center --The main LGBT organization in San Diego. Gay Pride, Pride Week, Gay Pride Weekend --Any gay pride festival held annually in most major cities world-wide. GLSEN - Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender NGGLTF - National Gay and Lesbian Task Force PFLAG - Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays SFA --Scouting For All S4A --Scouting For All |
Organizations
Which Have United Way agencies
which have stopped funding the Boy Scouts of America. Corporations
which have stopped funding the Boy Scouts of America. The
United States Military stops direct sponsorship of the Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts of America Boy
Scouts of America (BSA) The Boy Scout Motto,
Slogan, San Diego-Imperial
Council
News Articles Concerning April 14, 2004 January 9, 2004 July 31, 2003 City
of San Diego Links
The City of San Diego's
Antidiscrimination Law direct link:
http://clerkdoc.sannet.gov/legtrain/mc/
MuniCodeChapter05/Ch05Art02Division96 Chapter 5, Public Safety, Morals, and Welfare, Art 02, Division 96, Discrimination Based On Sexual Orientation, Municipal Code 52.9601 General Search for San Diego's Municipal Codes: http://clerkdoc.sannet.gov/Website/mc/mc.html
City of San Diego Official Web Site, Mayor's site,
and San DIego's Council Member's sites.
Office of the City Attorney, San Diego http://genesis.sannet.gov/infospc/templates/attorney/index.jsp Balboa Park, San Diego http://www.balboapark.org/ Some Other Information:
President George W. Bush
The President The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500 Note: When addressing envelopes to the President of the United States, use "The President", on the outside of the envelope. The salution is, "Dear Mr. President,". Remember you are writing to the President of the United States, and the most effective way to communicate with the President is to write respectifully and by following standard etiquette . Please reference: New Complete Guide to Executive Manners, Letitia Baldrige, 1993, ISBN: 0892563621, for more information. e-mail: president@whitehouse.gov Did you know? As quoted in PRIDE.03 magazine, "The gay or lesbian child with the most famous right-wing parents is, of course, Mary Cheney. "When Cokie Roberts asked Lynne Cheney about it, she replied angrily, "My daughter has never declared such a thing!" She declared the matter, "private." "Lynne Cheney has no problem talking about her daughter who's married and has children, and that's not private, but Mary's relationship is," David Smith of the Human Rights Campaign said to Salon at the time. "There's a double standard." ----Reprinted with permission from PRIDE.03 magazine, The Official Magazine of Interpride, page 48, New York, New York. http://www.profile-pursuit.com Letter To The Editor, by Edward I. Koch Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2004 Letter: Discrimination Against Children by the Scouts Your March 11 editorial "Secular Absolutism" states, "Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the Scouts' appeal of a Connecticut decision to kick them off a list of charities on its state worker voluntary-donation plan. Meanwhile the American Civil Liberties Union has routed the Scouts in San Diego." The editorial goes on to state, "Their real crime is to have won the Supreme Court case involving their First Amendment right not to admit an openly homosexual Scoutmaster." I believe that some cities rejecting the Boy Scouts from city programs and facilities results from their having barred some boys from joining troops simply because of their sexual orientation. That is the situation in New York City where the Board of Education barred the Scouts from using a facility. Don't you think it is wrong to discriminate against children because of their sexual orientation? Acting out inappropriately whether by heterosexuals or homosexuals should be barred or punished, not orientation. Finally, the
national Girl Scouts organization permits homosexual Scoutmasters
in their organization, as well as girls
who are lesbian in orientation in their troops. Several
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." –Martin Luther King, Jr. "Institutionalized homophobia in the Scouts or in church or school is the cruelest of all. It makes life miserable for young gay people and it misleads their peers with regard to the truth about gay people—that we are remarkably similar to the rest." –Ian McKellen, Actor (Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Magneto in X-Men), quoted with permission. Main site: http://www.mckellen.com Quote: http://www.mckellen.com/epost/m030924.htm |