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Boy Scouts and the Americans with Disabilities Act: What happened to Scout Law?

Recently, a Federal judge in Baltimore ruled that a Boy Scout chapter did not have to provide accommodations for its disabled members under the Americans with Disability Act. What has happened the basic Scout tenets, "do a good turn daily, help other people" and the Scout Law "A Scout is ...helpful, friendly, kind ..." Are these no longer the basic creed of Scouting?

Benjamin J. Dubin, Baltimore

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The writer is vice chairman of Baltimore County's Commission on Disabilities.

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