Posted on 12/10/2012 6:22:04 PM PST by DeaconBenjamin
The drugs giant Merck has suspended its funding for the Boy Scouts of America, citing its discrimination against gay people.
The maker of top-selling drugs including asthma treatment Singulair and the HPV vaccine Gardasil joins Intel and UPS.
In July the BSA reaffirmed its long-time policy barring openly gay members from joining the organisation and barring gay and lesbian scout leaders. The ban sparked a national backlash and was condemned by both president Barack Obama and his Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney.
Scouts for Equality has petitioned all major sponsors in an attempt to get the BSA to overturn the ruling. It is currently lobbying Verizon to pull its support for the BSA via petition website Change.org. So far over 63,000 people have signed the petition.
"I am thrilled that Merck & Company, a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical giant, has announced its foundation arm is immediately withdrawing funding from the Boy Scouts of America until the program ends its anti-gay membership policy," it said.
In a statement, Merck said: "Merck Foundation has suspended all funding to the Boys Scouts of America. The Merck Foundation will consider funding the BSA again when the organization's inclusion criteria has been expanded.
"The BSA's policy of exclusion based on sexual orientation directly conflicts with the Merck Foundation's giving guidelines."
Merck has also removed the BSA from its employee matching scheme. It did not say how much it had given to the BSA in this way.
There are over 2.7 million children and young adults in the BSA, and over 1 million adult members. The BSA formed a committee in 2010 to evaluate "whether the policy was in the best interests of the organization," and said it came to its decision after a two-year process of "extensive research and evaluations."
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I am going to immediately begin discrimination against Merck
One of the last organisations in this country with integrity.
Close it down before accepting fags.
The Boy Scouts will self-destruct if they start accepting fags, because if they do, no decent parent will allow his son to join.
I have two words for Merck.....
Jerry Sandusky.
BSA National Foundation is my client and my son is a Boy Scout. The prospect research company I work for helps them in their fundraising efforts.
I can’t possibly be that the gays want to join scouting. Otherwise, they could form their own national organization.
They want to destroy the Boy Scouts.
F’n homo bastards
Give Obama's second term a chance to change that.
“The Boy Scouts will self-destruct if they start accepting fags, because if they do, no decent parent will allow his son to join.”
They recently decided not to allow gay leaders; I believe that besides their view of it as “unhealthy” it doesn’t take a genius to see that if they went along with it they would be spending millions (as the Catholic Church does) settling lawsuits brought by victims of homosexual rape. The scandal in the Catholic Church was a homosexual scandal, though it will never be publicly labeled as such; the media trots out the one girl per 10,000 boys they can dig up to pretend it wasn’t.
“It can’t possibly be that the gays want to join scouting.”
Actually they do want to join (as with teaching); your “dates” are procured for you. No more cruising rest stops or playgrounds...
(I’m not kidding; the people that intend to molest minors seek out work where they are around minors)
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