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Re "Despite protests, Boy Scouts reaffirms ban on gays" (Tribune, July 18):
My grandparents fought their condo's ban on Jews. My parents wouldn't patronize a country that discriminated by race (South Africa). I won't patronize social clubs that won't allow women (Augusta National Golf Club) or stores that have a glass ceiling for women (Walmart). And I won't support a social group that bans gays (Boy Scouts of America).
Most of us think that if we had lived in the 1940s we wouldn't have patronized establishments that discriminated against blacks. Well, gay rights is our Jim Crow. Where do you stand?
Do you live with the wrongness, or like Eleanor Roosevelt with the Daughters of the American Revolution when it wouldn't let black Marian Anderson sing in Constitution Hall, do you quit bigoted groups?
People with a conscience and a sense of fairness must find a venue for their sons other than the homophobic BSA.
T. Griffith Clark
Sandy