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Still, his family seems determined to fight on. Judd's brother James admits that part of him would rather be attending the jamboree than staying at home. Yet he's pledged an oath of a different sort now. "I'm still looking for ways to speak out," he says. The jamboree "seems like a fun thing to do. But it would be a lot more fun if it didn't have to be this way."

With Franco Ordonez, Gretel C. Kovach and Saba Bireda

© 2001

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  • Posted By: megan2008 @ 10/11/2008 8:46:29 AM

    The "Gay" issue is a problem for schools trips and locker rooms as well as school trips. Imagine being a straight student having to room with or change in front of a gay student. They feel uncomfortabel and that's not fair. Neither is descrimination against gays. Solutions are difficult SOMEONE has to be descriminated against, the rights of the straight person or the gay person This does not even begin to touch the subject that we normally keep boys from girls to prevent consenting sexual encounters, so what about gays paired up on outings? How is the consenting sexual encounters prevented. A very diffifult issue indeed.

  • Posted By: cathytown22 @ 08/15/2008 10:18:51 PM

    I agree, tjrobinson! And, while we're at it, let's disallow the biological abberations of left-handedness, color-blindness, red hair and ignorant, homophobic, hateful redneck hate mongers like you. I am so ashamed you are a member of the human species.

  • Posted By: amastrike @ 07/30/2008 9:41:00 PM

    Ah, silly me, thinking that being attracted to someone is on the right side of the line. But then, your initial comment should have read "A pedophile is someone who has wandered a little further across a line humans have already crossed."

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