case from now on, since they have enabled what is coming.
Posted on 01/30/2013 2:13:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pressure from corporate sponsors may be the critical factor in a decision by the Boy Scouts of America to change policy to include homosexual scouts, volunteers and leaders.
When a representative from BSA met with Frank Page, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, to discuss the proposed change, Page was told that BSA is "wilting under pressure from some of their corporate sponsors ...," Page explained in a statement to The Christian Post.
The Human Rights Campaign, a pro-gay rights advocacy organization, told BSA's corporate sponsors that it would downgrade their "non-discrimination ratings" if they continued to give money to BSA, according to NBC News.
According to a review of corporate giving to BSA in 2010 conducted last September by The American Independent, 23 of the top 50 corporate foundations gave at least $10,000 to BSA. Those sponsors included Bank of America, Intel, UPS, U.S. Bank, Verizon and Wells Fargo. The largest donation in 2010, $700,000, came from Intel. Some donations were directly from the company. Other donations were through matching funds programs in which company employees choose the charity and the company would match a certain amount for every dollar given by the employee.
The New Jersey Star Ledger reported today, in an editorial supporting the Scouts' decision, that Intel announced last September it would stop donations to the Scouts unless it stopped excluding gays. A month later, pharmaceutical giant Merck followed suit. UPS announced last month that it would no longer give to BSA because of its ban on gay scouts, volunteers and leaders.
The BSA website lists some of their current corporate sponsors, including AT&T, Bass Pro Shops and ExxonMobil.
BSA's national board includes two corporate CEOs -- Randall Stephenson of AT&T and James Turley of Ernst & Young -- who have said they will try to end the ban on gay scouts, volunteers and leaders. Stephenson is supposed to be the board's next chairman.
BSA announced last July that, after conducting a two-year review, it would continue its ban on gay scouts, volunteers and leaders. At the time, the Scouts said that continuing the ban was "absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts."
Last week, though, The Christian Post learned that BSA was considering reversing this decision at its executive meeting in Irving, Texas, next week. The new policy would allow each Boy Scout chapter to decide whether or not to allow gay scouts, volunteers or leaders.
The Boy Scouts appear to be going the way of the Indian and the TV Western.
time to shut it down
Next the ban on Atheists. Then the Oath and the Boy Scout Law.
Eagle Scout (1969), 12 years as a Scouter, consistent contributor to the local Council: All to be undone if this decision is made.
No more contributions.
Scouter uniform will be packed away.
Eagle metal will be returned to BSA National.
I have a very heavy heart over this.
The Boy Scouts need to organize their own boycotts of companies that cave into the gay mafia.
Replace “Reverent” with “Tolerant”
The Boy Scouts need to organize their own boycotts of companies that cave into the gay mafia.
Here’s an alternative for Christians who are disappointed at the most recent decision of the Boys Scouts:
THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE BRIGADE
See here for details:
The scouts used to be made of sterner stuff.
I remember buying my own gear and uniforms and such - what do they need corporate sponsors for, anyway?
Time to change BSA Management.
Screw the corporate sponsors!
Let the parents do what they’ve always done.
PARTICIPATE!!!
Monthly Troop dues!
Parents run the meetings and lead the campouts.
They guide the training and growth.
Sure they do fund raisers for larger expenditures.
But the idea that the principles of the BSA should be sacrificed to cultural blackmail is disgusting and unacceptable.
I do not think these corporate donors understand the implications of having gay Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.
The left will not be satisfied. Even if the Scouts cave the left will insist their corporate sponsors abandon the Scouts. Corporations will comply., fearful of the media and government bureaucrats. The Scout Law (A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent) has no place in a modern, enlightened, secular, socialist society. The government will provide midnight basketball programs for our youth.
Big business is NOT our friend nor the friend of the American People.
They represent corporate welfare statism and international globalism.
Big business is NOT our friend nor the friend of the American People.
They represent corporate welfare statism and international globalism.
I posted this a couple od days ago-
This comes from catering to corporate executives on the boards of directors. Liberal ones love getting on boards of organizations like the Boy Scouts and undermining them from within.
The Pittsburgh council had an anti-Christian one join their board shortly before the spokesman went on local Christian radio to beg for public support. I called him out on it and his response was that he didn’t know how I found out who was on the board of directors.
Look for liberals in the machinery on this one.
Big business is NOT our friend nor the friend of the American People.
They represent corporate welfare statism and international globalism.
Poison works from the inside out. It looks like the BSA slept with dogs and are now getting up with fleas.
There are only 2 options here.
1. Finish drinking the Kool-Aid, disband and leave the Boys Scouts a smoldering heap - never to ever be resurrected.
2. Open the scouts to homo’s and fags and watch it quickly die as most boys and parents flee in horror.
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