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 whole wolf-head thing reeks of symbolism.
And now the rabid slavering directed against the very young exposes the predator, the prey, and the shepherds.
Insurance costs for troops have skyrocketed. You also have to factor in the costs of operating camps.
I hope not, but you know the libs will. I do hope that there is a mass exodus from the Boy Scouts. They should pay dearly for comprimising their moral foundations. Part of their basic principles is being moral and recognize God (even that has been compromised) and they have now let the prince of darkness in to say this is good. They should have stood firm and taken their shots, for they should know if they really believed in being reverent that they will be persecuted. I guess they didn’t stand up to the test and buckled.
The Boy Scouts need to organize their own boycotts of companies that cave into the gay mafia.
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BSA needs to “Name them” so they/we can “Shame them”.
Too bad the BSA never heard of Jungle Rules.
Our side usually capitulates
The leftist perverts took over the Girl Scouts a long time ago
Sorry. This crap gets me so aggrevated my fingers shake.
Just called the hotline and told them I was against.
You might as well pull your kids outta there (if they are there) while this policy hasn’t fully kicked in yet.
Better safe than sorry.
Tragic, simply tragic. And people pretend that there won’t be MORE of these horrors with the new policy? Bob
I also went to the BSA facebook page and it is obvious that the radical gays are waging a campaign against BSA. It looks like people who are against the change are too afraid of the gay mafia or gay K K harassment if they speak out.
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