Is sexual abuse of girls a tawdry family secret to be swept under the rug or a serious crime? For the Duggar family, based on what we know now, the answer is clear: protect the perpetrator, run out the clock on legal claims, and rely on dubious friends to mask the problem. The Duggars are
Death throes for the Boy Scouts’ discrimination against gay Scout leaders?
In the least inspiring civil rights move ever, Boy Scouts of America President Robert Gates this week urged the group to stop banning gay Scout leaders not because he wanted to do the right thing, but merely out of self-interest. “We must deal with the world as it is, not as we might wish it