Down over 50% in the last year.
Posted on 02/05/2013 10:50:39 AM PST by Maelstorm
Major corporations that have donated to the Boy Scouts of America in recent years are largely remaining quiet ahead of the highly anticipated vote Wednesday on the organization’s policy on homosexuals, but some have made it clear their money will go only to groups that don’t discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
In 2010, the latest year for which figures are available, the top donors to the Scouts, listed in descending order according to amount, were Intel, Emerson, Verizon, 3M, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Valero, UPS, U.S. Bank, Eli Lilly and Co., GE, Monsanto, Medtronic, PNC, Nationwide, Abbott, General Mills, Alcoa, Caterpillar, Illinois Tool Works, Allstate and Dow Chemical.
As WND reported last week, a major drop in corporate funding came last September after a gay-rights blogger for the Huffington Post published a collaborative report that named the donors and chastised them for violating their own policy of not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
Since the September report, Intel, UPS and Merck are among the corporations that have declared they have stopping funding the BSA.
The homosexual-rights group Scouting for All lists some of the corporations that have refused to fund the BSA’s national organization. They include IBM, Levi Strauss and Company, J.P. Morgan, American Airlines, Medtronic, Portland General Gas and Electric, Hewlett Packard, Textron, Fleet Bank, CVS/Pharmacy Stores and Carrier Corp.
At the time of the September report, shipping giant UPS, which gave $167,000 to the Scouts in 2010, insisted the “gay” policy would not impact its donations. But after a petition drive that month by another homosexual-rights group, Scouts for Equality, UPS changed its mind.
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and if the Boy Scouts yield to the homosexual agenda, then it will be good riddance to them.
I have no problem paying for my own children to be in the Scouts. The money is to help poor kids, without fathers- mostly.
The homos are hurting the less fortunate- not people they are intending on hurting.
We will just start a new group, if they destroy this one.
Builders - build.
So what.
We’re watching. We can boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too.
Why are corporations so afraid to stand up for what is right instead of worrying what will impact their bank accounts? Oh, looks like I answered my own question. When right and wrong are what someone with the most money says it is there’s a problem...
The BSA will be fine. One would rather be self-sufficient and poor rather than take the money and get raped/molested by degenerate faggots.
Do you think they care who they are hurting? These people are totally focused on themselves and what THEY want. They don't care about other people who might get hurt by this.
“We’re watching. We can boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too.”
Pick a target, freeze it, polarize it.....
It works for the left.
We’re watching. We can boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too.
And let’s o it big time. If someone has a website and wants to start a list we can start adding to it. Do a list for companies that support conservative values too. If someone has already set up such a thing and knows where it is please provide a link
We’re watching. We can boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too.
And let’s do it big time then. If someone has a website and wants to start a list we can start adding to it. Do a list for companies that support conservative values too. If someone has already set up such a thing and knows where it is please provide a link
amen.
Scouting was created to grow boys into self-reliant, morally upright men. The Communist Liberal Progressives want to either corrupt or outright destroy the scouting organization and the culture it traditionally promoted. If the scouting organization will not stand up for its original values, then it has indeed outlived its usefulness and some other group will have to be formed to replace it.
There was a time when blackmail was illegal.
Really? It's one thing to promote perverted sexuality between adults, it's a whole other thing to be pushing promoters of sodomy on the Boy Scouts.
They have a right to their twisted opinion and I have the right not to purchase or use their products.
Screw the gay activists (although they would probably enjoy it). If they want gay scouts, they can start their own FSA or QSA. Why can’t they do that?
Greed, specious reasoning, corruption, lack of integrity are all associated with corporations that have refused to fund the BSA's national organization. They are all Democrats, ehhh?
Maybe it is time to draw a line in the sand and see who the bully's are. These companies apparently do not care about, or see any connection between pedophilia and homosexuality.
They clearly do not understand what is honor to God and country. They are willing to compromise the safety and well being of our children because they are afraid of losing the support of Democrats and the strong homosexual lobby. So be it.
The corporation has replace God!
Isn’t it funny that 1% of the money these corporations receive from customers can have that great an effect on who they donate to?
1% my butt, Queers are scattered everywhere.
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