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But please note the demand for absolute and total submission issued by the spokesman for one prominent homosexual rights group:<\/p>\n
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\u201c[I]ncluding an exemption for troops sponsored by religious organizations undermines and diminishes the historic nature of today\u2019s decision. Discrimination should have no place in the Boy Scouts, period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The war isn\u2019t over. \u00a0And it won\u2019t be over until every knee bows in humble surrender and every tongue confesses that Love has triumphed. \u00a0Under the new regime, pockets of resistance will be identified and wiped out.<\/p>\n
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