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Toleration for the Boy Scouts
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1391.
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As a pediatrician, I have been aware of and have carefully considered
the Supreme Court's ruling on the BSA's policy on homosexuality. I have reached
a very different conclusion, however, from Girard et al.
The authors state that "There is no medical evidence to suggest an association
between homosexuality and impaired moral judgment." This is an absurd juxtaposition!
To design such a study first requires one to define "impaired moral judgment,"
which is (1) not a medical issue; and (2) the issue already begged. Unfortunately
for the case being made by Girard et al, there are several reports in the
medical and nonmedical literature of gay adults who have tested positive for
the human immunodeficiency virus who purposefully failed to use condoms during
anal and oral intercourse. Does this not qualify as impaired moral judgment?
Perhaps it depends on who is doing the defining.
The authors also state that "the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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