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.
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.
That ends summer camp for sure.
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.
Close em down.
Just close it down.
better that than bait for Pedophiles.
The queers will be waiting in line to be leaders.
Bank of America... again.
Anybody else see a pattern here? BOA has been been turned into the Obama enforcement racket.
Not willing to do business with the gun industry
The Boy Scouts
“time to shut it down”
They fear lawsuits now, just wait until a few of the kids get molested.
DUDE!
Ease up on mashing that SEND button. Please!
thanks
I copied to my Facebook
I called their National supply line and was given the number 855-870-2178.
I called that number and was quickly told that line was for media only and they were only taking emails from concerned parents.
BSA commits suicide in a vain attempt to be liked. They will never get a penny of money nor an ounce of support from me ever again. They have gone into the sewer.
That's all it took? We need a competing organization to tar those corporate sponsor's as supporters of pedophilia and perversion. Attackers of defenseless children. Make it loud and very public. A good offense is better than tossing in the towel.
Enough of ‘being disappointed’. Fight back. Give us a list of the companies attacking our sons, and let’s pressure them right back.
I hear ya...12 years as Girl Scout....they lost me several years ago.
Let people know that UPS (and other corporate sponsors) wants to ALLOW sodomite child molesters access to their sons...wonder what the response from UPS would be...mine to them? Two words. Fed Ex.
I think this will probably be the end of the scouting movement - sorry, Baden-Powell. It was a good idea and it had a good run, but it wasn’t any match for Herr Obama and his Gay Brigades.
I think probably other groups will emerge to fill the gap. But it’s stunning to see such a wonderful, positive, international organization just be struck down overnight like this.
Who knew that rolling a Fortune 500 corporation was as easy as making up your own phony bonus rating number and then threatening to downgrade them if they did not do what you want?
Well, I guess the ‘Boy Scouts’ will now be adult homosexual predators......
Exactly.
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