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Old August 19th 03, 06:05 PM
Gary L. Drescher
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Gary L. Drescher" wrote in message
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| "C J Campbell" wrote in message
| ...
| Well, I don't know about 'egregious,' but I do not intentionally
misquote
| you or anybody else.
|
| I never said it was intentional or that you're lying. I think you
| reflexively fabricate convenient facts, and then turn around and

sincerely
| believe your own fabrications. For instance, I'd bet you actually

believe
| your claim that there are many gay-rights groups that exclude straight
| members and meet in public schools, despite your apparently having never
| encountered even a single example.
|
| --Gary


Broward County in Florida is debating right now whether to allow Boy

Scouts
to continue to meet in their schools. "No matter what they decide, Till

and
some board members said they do not plan to back off exactly what the

Scouts
challenged in federal court this year: the district's insistence that some
groups meeting in schools not discriminate based on sexual orientation." I
see that as saying that it is OK for some groups to discriminate, but not
others. Perhaps you can ask Broward County if there really are other

groups
that discriminate based on sexual orientation, and why it is tolerable for
them to do it but not the Boy Scouts.


CJ, this illustrates why it is a good thing to cite sources for your claims.
Now that you have done so, it is apparent that you have simply
*misunderstood* what you read. In fact, you got it exactly backwards. Look
again please. What Till is quoted as saying is that the board will NOT BACK
OFF FROM INSISTING that groups meeting in schools must NOT discriminate
based on sexual orientation. The phrase "some groups" obviously refers to
the fact that *only some* school-meeting groups (namely, the Scouts) have
ever even *tried* to discriminate based on sexual orientation; it is not a
declaration that it would be OK for some other groups to so discriminate!
And *even given* your tortured misreading, the statement *still* would not
remotely attest to the actual existence of any gay-rights group that did
discriminate in that manner.

So *that* was your basis for claiming that many gay-rights groups meet in
public schools and exclude straight members?

--Gary