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To: Congressman Billybob
The AP is engaged in bigoted reporting. The Boy Scouts are not engaging in "discrimination."

Actually, they are. "1 a : the act of discriminating b : the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently 2 : the quality or power of finely distinguishing."

On the one hand, you have the a hoterosexual scout master. OTOH, a homosexual. Responding to those situations differently is the essence of discrimination.

The left has twisted the language. Intuitively, folks respond to the word discrimination as a bad thing. But the ability to tell the difference between good and evil is precisely what the left seeks by attacking the word "discrimination."

Discrimination exercised wisely is a good thing. Discrimation exercised foolishly . . .

40 posted on 10/17/2006 7:57:26 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
I agree with you that the left has captured the word "discrimination," with its classic definition you state. However, in the AP article the writer is not using that word in a "discriminating" fashion. Instead, the writer is using it as a shorthand way of saying that the Scouts are prejudiced against homosexuals.

The truth of the matter is that the Scouts are protecting their young boys from potential sexual predators.

John / Billybob

77 posted on 10/17/2006 9:17:04 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Have a look-see. Please get involved.)
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