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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bsa; caterpillar; homosexualagenda; lavendermafia
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To: Red in Blue PA
I hope everyone involved in the BSA fiasco gets the lesson here: never cave on your principles, because to the people that hate your principles, it's never enough. BSA allowed homosexual scouts and companies pounced even harder on them. BSA compromised, and it got them nothing.

So to other groups that are being pressured the way BSA was pressured: don't sell your soul. Go down fighting rather than give in. Because no compromise is ever enough to feed the beast. It always wants more.
21 posted on 06/13/2013 3:17:41 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Red in Blue PA

FU Caterpiller.

You are now recognized as a societal enemy of conservative christian values. The values the Founders had.


22 posted on 06/13/2013 3:20:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Slyfox

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

They’ll be behind him all the way.


23 posted on 06/13/2013 3:21:41 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Red in Blue PA; flaglady47; mickie
THAT DOES IT !!!!!!

I'm never gonna buy an excavator or a bulldozer from Caterpillar again, by golly !

Leni

24 posted on 06/13/2013 3:21:56 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Red in Blue PA

$25K...........Big WHOOP!


25 posted on 06/13/2013 3:24:53 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Red in Blue PA

I already use AMD chips and FedEx over UPS.... guess my next tractor will have to be a Deere


28 posted on 06/13/2013 3:29:17 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Catepillar is STUPID!! What the Hell has happened to Common Sense and DECENCY????????


29 posted on 06/13/2013 3:29:39 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: fwdude

Galion and Bucyrus in the US... then there’s Kubota and all those Japanese companies.


30 posted on 06/13/2013 3:29:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: fwdude
In the US, Deere, probably; but the foreigners like like Komatsu, etc.

CAT? The union, global CAT? I thought they were certified PC.

31 posted on 06/13/2013 3:37:56 PM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: fwdude
Oh, I misunderstood. I thought they were not supporting the scouts for the right reasons.

I knew it was too good to be true.

32 posted on 06/13/2013 3:37:56 PM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Don’t the Girl Scouts prohibit male leaders? Or is it OK for a 26 year old hetro man to take a group of teenage girls out camping now?

The issue of homo men and boys is no different from hetro men and girls.


33 posted on 06/13/2013 3:49:47 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

All of the big companies are traded on Wall Street, I think that is a choke point where liberals can put a lot of pressure on companies. Wouldn’t be surprised if the homo nazis are putting pressure by threatening to drop their shares in they don’t bow before the gays.

Homos have lots of fellow travelers such as Hollywood and unions that invest with large blocks of stocks. The left is notorious for its many boycotts.


34 posted on 06/13/2013 3:51:26 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: presently no screen name

Better to dissolve the big business, big media, big liberalism supported BSA. Start over with localized values and no perverts looking over your shoulder.


35 posted on 06/13/2013 3:55:04 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: Red in Blue PA
how many filthy disease ridden queers buy D9's???
36 posted on 06/13/2013 3:55:08 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

There was a porn guy named Bull Dozer. I think he was straight though.


37 posted on 06/13/2013 3:56:34 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Chode

My guess is zero. Yet they cater to them anyway.

Companies led by PC idiots.


38 posted on 06/13/2013 3:57:28 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SampleMan

Excellent point!


39 posted on 06/13/2013 3:58:01 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I think one of the Village People was a construction worker.


40 posted on 06/13/2013 3:58:38 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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