SCITUATE | Community Briefing
DEBATE DUE ON NO PLACE FOR HATE – The Board of Selectmen at its
meeting on Tuesday is set to discuss a proposal by Selectman John
Danehey that the town terminate its participation in the
Anti-Defamation League’s No Place for Hate program. If the board
approves, Scituate would join several other communities that have
opted to drop No Place for Hate in protest over the ADL’s stance not
to clearly label as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by
Turks during World War I. Selectmen briefly took up Danehey’s proposal
when he first offered it on Sept. 25, but opted to more fully discuss
it at Tuesday’s meeting, which will be held at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
Danehey, whose wife is half-Armenian – her grandparents survived the
genocide – said last week he believes his proposal will help prompt
the ADL "to do the right thing, which is to recognize the Armenian
genocide. The ADL is responsible for being an advocate for all peoples
that have suffered genocide, holocaust, or massacres. . . . So my
thought was by failing to do so, they are turning their backs on the
Armenians." – John Laidler
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