modern-day underground railroad. an underground railroad to, quote, deliver innocent children from same-sex households. fisher, who last month pointed to the penn state sex abuse scandal as evidence of why children should not be put in same-sex households, chose yesterday to invoke the memory of harriet tubman and frederick douglass as part of a broader campaign against gay rights. while large parts of the thinking world might pause at the strategy of using a seminal example of the historic struggle to secure basic freedoms for a persecuted minority to undermine basic freedoms sought by a persecuted minority, we ll leave mr. fisher s questionable semioticstrategery aside. fisher was outraged in particular regarding criminal charges filed by the u.s. justice department against a group of people who participated in the international kidnapping of a 10-year-old to nicaragua in an effort to evade court-ordered visitation with the child s lesbian mother. never mind the criminality,
fisher, who last month pointed to the penn state sex abuse scandal as evidence of why children should not be put in same-sex households, chose yesterday to invoke the memory of harriet tubman and fricke douglas as part of a broader campaign against gay rights. while large parts of the thinking world might pause at the strategy of using a seminole example of the historic struggle to secure basic freedoms for our persecuted minority to undermine basic freedoms sought by a persecuted minority, we ll leave mr. fisher s questionable strategicry aside. fisher was outraged in particular regarding criminal charges filed by the u.s. justice department against a group of people who participated in the international kidnapping of a 10-year-old to nicaragua in an effort to evade court-ordered visitation with the child s lesbian mother. never mind the criminality, absurdity, and wholesale disregard of what is actually in a child s best interest. a director for the american
but many of them lived outside of the state. this coming weekend there will be several funerals for other victims who lived here in colorado but have family and grew up in other states and this comes all one week to the day after the shooting so a tough day here in colorado, richard. thank you. for the first time a man has stepped forward claiming he was the boy in the shower with jerry sandusky that touch off the penn state sex abuse scandal. his attorney says he plans to sue the university over the abuse he suffered but they did not name their client. meanwhile jerry sandusky s wife dottie tells a local newspaper she still loves her husband and that quote he s not who they say who he is. she decline further comment. red cross is pulling some of its foreign staff from the syrian capital of damascus due to the ongoing violence in the country. a core team of 50 will stay behind. the syrian arab red crescent is moving some of its operations in a northern city due to heavy
fighting is escalating in syria s war. as army tanks roll through, they are mounting an offensive operation to liberate the country s biggest city. in the capital of damascus as well. they have been fighting to retake captured neighborhoods. there is new hope for two iowa cousins that vanished last week. they have evidence that 8-year-old elizabeth collins and ten-year-old lyric cook-morrissey were abducted but not killed. friends and neighbors of the two missing girls held a walk and ride bike event in waterloo, iowa, yesterday. they were calling for them to be brought home safely. two big developments in the fallout from the penn state sex abuse scandal. penn state today has removed the famous statue of the late football coach, joe paterno. it happened this morning when construction crews moved in
massive communications breakdown and one of the most dangerous places in the world. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. there is angry new backlash this morning to the scathing report on the penn state sex abuse scandal released last week. joe paterno s family now wants to launch its own investigation. it also rejects the findings of a high-level cover-up of jerry sandusky s crimes. lawyers for former penn state president graham spanier are blasting the report saying it reached conclusions not supported by the facts. also disturbing published reports from the paper in harrisburg which won a pulitzer for its coverage of this. second mile, sandusky s charity, was never informed that he was being looked at, which could be a violation of state law. on top of that, back in 98 a young boy came forward he had been sexually abused in a shower which means he should have been supervised and was not. according to a source of how the grand jury testimony shook out here. another two case on t