Boy Scouts Disappointed Caterpillar Drops Support

ABC News ^ | June 13, 2013 | AP

[mirvin]

Boy Scouts of America says it is disappointed Caterpillar Inc. will no longer give money to the group. But public relations director Deron Smith on Thursday thanked the Peoria-based heavy equipment manufacturer for its past support. Caterpillar spokeswoman Rachel Potts said Thursday that the Caterpillar Foundation has decided to withdraw its supports for Boy Scouts of America. Potts says the company believes the group's policy barring homosexual adults from serving as scout leaders is discriminatory.

[mirvin]

Good thing I've sent in my resignation.

[Gene Eric]

Caterpillar? Wasn’t there once love for Obama?

[circlecity]

Please note they are dropping their support because the scouts won’t allow gay leaders. They want even MORE gays in the scouts.

[txnativegop]

BSA: Decisions have consequences . . . TOO BAD!

[AnAmericanMother]

Dear Boy Scouts:

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:
"We invaded you last night - we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:

"We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

- Rudyard Kipling

[Martin Tell]

I resigned on Tuesday and took my son out. There are not enough of us willing to take a stand and protect our boys, however.

[kidd]

Caterpillar thinks the Butt Scouts aren’t gay enough

[aquila48]

“BSA: Decisions have consequences . . . TOO BAD!”

Read the article - you’re in for a surprise!

[YankeeReb]

Please note they are dropping their support because the scouts won’t allow gay leaders. They want even MORE gays in the scouts.

So the lesson here should be you either stand up for whats right or not, there are no half measures.
Eventually those who compromise with evil end up getting destroyed themselves.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Caterpillar is out of their freaking minds.

They want homosexual adult males to spend time in the woods with teenage boys? What could possibly go wrong with that scenario?

[Revel]

Funny how many people comment with out reading a whole paragraph in the article.

The details matter and Cat is doing the right thing for exactly the wrong reason. Boycott Cat.

[txnativegop]

Well thank you for bursting one of the few optimistic moments that I have had recently . . . LOL

[athelass]

When will people figure out how this liberal blackmail works and stop giving in to it?

I've yet to see a single story about how the Boy Scouts have benefited from their decision to abandon their values.

Where are the accolades, where are the praises, where are all those young men lining up to join now that they have become "enlightened"?

Nowhere, because their true purpose is to destroy a Christian institution and drive it from public life.

This is what they hope to do to every church, ministry, and institution that holds up the nuclear family as the foundation of the civil society. Right now they're succeeding because they have no strong opposition.

[informavoracious]

Ok, so they supported the Boy Scouts when there could be no openly gay members. Now they are withdrawing support because gay boys can be in the Scouts openly, but not gay adults?

[dirtymac]

Central valley of CA will not like to hear this news, nor will Eastern Washington. Not a smart move on the part of Caterpillar. They need to know who their market is.

[headsonpikes]

Alexander Botts remains happy to represent their competition - Earthworm. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2134032.Alexander_Botts

Caterpillar? Well, they are crawlers by nature, after all...

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"Funny how many people comment with out reading a whole paragraph in the article."

The Power of the Headline!

[T-Bird45]

More than a few of us made this very point to the BSA and what they were sacrificing in giving up the SCOTUS decision shield with the strong possibility of CAT and others doing exactly as they did. Next up, AT&T et al...

[Jim from C-Town]

Caterpillars market is China and the Asian Pacific Rim. The only place on Earth that is moving land and building their infrastructure.

[Jeff Head]

Already starting.

Large corporations and other large donors will be leaving because they want the BSA to "take the next step," and allow homosexual men to be leaders in the Boy Scouts. Putting more and more pressure on them to cave as they just did with homosexual youth.

This was the plan by the progressive left and gay communbity all along.

MY LETTER TO THE BOY SCOUTS OVER THEIR OPENLY GAY YOUTH ADMISSION POLICY