Scouts and Gays

First in San Francisco; now in San Diego. “Traditional” prejudices and discrimination in the Boy Scout program are being uncovered. The time has come for that organization to discover that the world is really not flat. Archaic information and attitudes must be discarded. Fears that homosexuality is transferable and that youngsters can be “recruited” are totally groundless.

While it may be true that you can’t legislate morality, the San Diego Human Dignity Ordinance needs to be invoked if only to expose the injustice of banning people merely because of their involuntary and irreversible sexual orientation. That makes about as much sense as banning left-handers.

ROCKY and JEANETTE S. VELGOS, Co-Chairs, San Diego Co. Chapter, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays