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Caterpillar drops Boy Scouts support over gay ban
Yahoo Finance ^

Posted on 06/13/2013 2:46:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Caterpillar Inc. is no longer giving money to the Boy Scouts because the organization discriminates against homosexuals, a spokeswoman for the Illinois-based heavy equipment manufacturer confirmed Thursday.

The company's move wasn't directly tied to the recent Boy Scouts decision to continue to bar homosexual adults from roles within the organization while allowing openly gay children to be scouts. Instead, spokeswoman Rachel Potts said, the company decided to cut off funding while reviewing a request for $25,000 that came in last year from a local group in Illinois.

That decision was never announced publicly or communicated to the Boy Scouts of America, only to the local group, she said. But she added that the Boy Scouts' policy that continues to bar homosexual adults from working in the organization is "discriminatory."

But prohibitions against both gay scouts and adult leaders have long driven protests against the Boy Scouts. Last year, several companies withdrew financial support, including Intel Corporation and United Parcel Service.

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KEYWORDS: bsa; caterpillar; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia
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1 posted on 06/13/2013 2:46:59 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Who is their biggest competitor?


2 posted on 06/13/2013 2:49:30 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

RE: Caterpillar Inc. is no longer giving money to the Boy Scouts because the organization discriminates against homosexuals

Didn’t Caterpillar get the memo? The BSA ALLOWS Gay Scouts now.


3 posted on 06/13/2013 2:50:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: fwdude

KOMATSU... they make great equipment.

JCB... also very good equipment


4 posted on 06/13/2013 2:51:00 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Red in Blue PA
This is a pet peeve of mine, and understanding that it is a pet peeve . . . why can't you signal to the reader that you are snipping the portions of the article you've snipped? It used to be done with ellipsis points, or adjoining brackets, for example "[]".

I guess I'm just old-school.

5 posted on 06/13/2013 2:51:14 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Red in Blue PA

CATERPILLAR, Council on Foreign Relations member.

Sucking in taxpayer dollars by selling their equipment to USAID-supported third world banana republics.

Globalist ! Globalist ! Globalist ! Globalist ! Globalist ! Globalist ! Globalist !


6 posted on 06/13/2013 2:51:19 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: fwdude

A. Deere & Co.


7 posted on 06/13/2013 2:52:18 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: SeekAndFind

“But she added that the Boy Scouts’ policy that continues to bar homosexual adults from working in the organization is “discriminatory.”

They want GAY adults too.


8 posted on 06/13/2013 2:52:29 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Continue digging your dirt - no one needs you ‘buying the BSA’ on your conditional strings.


9 posted on 06/13/2013 2:53:30 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Red in Blue PA
It has never been about getting gay kids into scouting. It has always been about getting gay leaders so as to destroy the organization.

Much like gay marriage is designed to destroy marriage as an institution.

10 posted on 06/13/2013 2:56:22 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Well that's the last time I buy one of these from those gaylovin' freaks at Caterpiller:


11 posted on 06/13/2013 2:56:29 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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Instead, spokeswoman Rachel Potts said, the company decided to cut off funding while reviewing a request for $25,000 that came in last year from a local group in Illinois.

That decision was never announced publicly or communicated to the Boy Scouts of America, only to the local group, she said. But she added that the Boy Scouts' policy that continues to bar homosexual adults from working in the organization is "discriminatory."

Rachel Potts must be one of the first among the low information voter crowd. She does not know the difference between civil rights and natural law. Or she thinks that civil rights trumps natural law.

Same sex marriage is a transient popular culture that will not stand the test of time against natural law. Pretending that deviant sexual behavior is normal will not make it so.

The company she represents has to be smarter than that!

12 posted on 06/13/2013 2:56:52 PM PDT by olezip (Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. ~ Cicero)
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“Didn’t Caterpillar get the memo? The BSA ALLOWS Gay Scouts now.”

What good is it to change their rules, unless if they also allow in the really horny adults as well?


13 posted on 06/13/2013 2:57:29 PM PDT by MNDude (Sorry for typos. Probably written on a smartphone, and I have big clumsy fingers.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

So that was you parked in the Handicapped spot in the 7/11. I recognized the “Run Hillary Run” sticker on the front bumper.


14 posted on 06/13/2013 2:58:37 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: olezip

In other words, she’s a libtard and probably a closet lesbian.


15 posted on 06/13/2013 3:00:37 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: MNDude

RE: What good is it to change their rules, unless if they also allow in the really horny adults as well?

Well the gay minors will eventually become adults... THEN, they’ll have to change the rules AGAIN.


16 posted on 06/13/2013 3:03:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Red in Blue PA

Boys Scouts National Council sowed the seeds of its destruction when it started taking corporate money. Sure, that cash provided nice jobs, good perks and nice offices, but people get used to it, and when Intel, Caterpillar or Bank of America says you have to follow the gay-lobby, of course people will fall into line.

As I understand, the local councils are all self-funding anyway - so they should simply tell the national council to cram it, and start a new national council.


17 posted on 06/13/2013 3:07:09 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: headstamp 2
bar homosexual adults from working in the organization is “discriminatory.”

Hypocrites!!. They discriminate on who who they donate money to and their litmus test is the organization's beliefs.

You can't buy the BSA to conform to your filth. Go dig a hole for yourself! Now that you exposed yourself - go hide.

18 posted on 06/13/2013 3:07:21 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: MNDude
"Really horny adults" are next on their agenda.

How can a gay scout really get the entire scouting experience unless he has scoutmasters who really understand him?

19 posted on 06/13/2013 3:07:26 PM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Caterpillar will be having visitations/correspondence with the IRS (if not already), as they are anti-Union, and a Target for sure.


20 posted on 06/13/2013 3:10:35 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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