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Article: The ACLU's next target. (controversy over Boy Scout oath requiring allegiance to God)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 24, 1991
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The ACLU doesn't much mind boys trying to be helpful, friendly, cheerful, clean, or even brave-but reverent? Call in the thought police.
A TEN-YEAR-OLD American boy is on the whole a highly protected person. True, if he is located in a big-city ghetto nowadays, he must literally live in fear of random bullets, and there are the seemingly ubiquitous drug dealers lying in wait to exploit him. But even a ghetto child is not likely to meet many of the dangers that were once a routine fixture of life in America and that remain so to this day in all too many countries of the world: diphtheria, for instance, or scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis, ...