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UPS ends grants to Boy Scouts over discrimination
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 12, 2012

Posted on 11/12/2012 3:01:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

ATLANTA (AP) -- The UPS Foundation says it will no longer give grants to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group excludes gays and lesbians from being scouts or scout leaders.

The philanthropic arm of the Atlanta-based shipping giant made the change Thursday after an online petition protesting the foundation's annual grants to the Boy Scouts attracted more than 80,000 signatures.

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KEYWORDS: boyscouts; pedophilia; ups
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1 posted on 11/12/2012 3:02:03 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It will be FedEx for me...or have they turned queer, as well?


2 posted on 11/12/2012 3:04:53 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If true, I’ll not use UPS any more.


3 posted on 11/12/2012 3:05:15 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If true, I’ll not use UPS any more.


4 posted on 11/12/2012 3:05:15 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Then watch the media turn around and ream the BSA for cases of past child molestation.

The media is satan possessed. They just can't stand any organization that attempts to instill virtue into young minds. Or ANY minds.

5 posted on 11/12/2012 3:05:46 PM PST by skeeter
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To: who knows what evil?

They all turn queer, inevitably.


6 posted on 11/12/2012 3:06:38 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: skeeter

Good.. UPS, strike.. NEXT! F%#@%@em.. :)


7 posted on 11/12/2012 3:07:19 PM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: carlo3b

I’m having trouble keeping track of the growing list of businesses I now refuse to patronize.


8 posted on 11/12/2012 3:10:00 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Free ThinkerNY

seriously - an online petition with only 80,000 signatures from the most radical group in American. Sounds like someone at UPS WANTED this to happen.


9 posted on 11/12/2012 3:10:21 PM PST by nomobs
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I guess UPS hates children.


10 posted on 11/12/2012 3:10:21 PM PST by ABQHispConservative
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To: who knows what evil?

Ditto...and I ship a lot!


11 posted on 11/12/2012 3:10:21 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Let's see: UPS ships 15,000,000 packages a year and (though many are multiple shippers) 80,000 comments amounts to .005%.

Moreover, much like the Chick Fil-A broo-ha-ha, I'd bet that the majority of those complaining probably rarely use UPS.

Just another example of the tyrannical minority, Leftist tools exerting pressure way beyond their ability to affect any meaningful decrease in a company's bottom line and worse yet, the caving by a big conglomerate like UPS over something like this.

Like UPS, but guess I'll be using USPS and Fed Ex more often.

12 posted on 11/12/2012 3:12:47 PM PST by neveralib
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If true....goodbye UPS in this house.

I think we should buy and island and sent all the gays to it...let them start their own economy manufacturing KY Jelly....see how long it takes for them to go slip slidin’ away...


13 posted on 11/12/2012 3:12:55 PM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: zerosix
If true, I’ll not use UPS any more.

You do realize they're a union shop, right?
14 posted on 11/12/2012 3:13:14 PM PST by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

80K signatures? I doubt all were sincere.

Stand firm BSA!


15 posted on 11/12/2012 3:13:41 PM PST by upchuck (We are not finished yet. But when nobama chooses some more SCOTUS judges, we will be. For ever.)
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Thank you Boy Scouts! I hope UPS goes the way of J.C.Penney’s.


16 posted on 11/12/2012 3:15:19 PM PST by Brownie63
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To: zerosix

Me too......


17 posted on 11/12/2012 3:17:21 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This drives me crazy. The Boy Scouts are a private organization. They have every right to make their own rules. If you do not like them, too bad.


18 posted on 11/12/2012 3:18:15 PM PST by DallasSun (Courage~Fear that has said its prayers.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The UPS Foundation says it will no longer give grants to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group excludes gays and lesbians from being scouts or scout leaders.

The UPS is union. It should not be a surprise that they are no longer giving grants to the Boy Scouts of America.

This will have a serious impact on my purchase decisions; it will eliminate any merchants using UPS. It is very sad to see such shortsighted action by a large business.

I guess that UPS managers do not or cannot see the statistical correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia. Or they do and want to destroy the boy scouts.

19 posted on 11/12/2012 3:18:34 PM PST by olezip
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To: who knows what evil?

I’m dropping my Life Scout off for a meeting as I type this. I will honor UPS action and will be withholding all funds from UPS as well.


20 posted on 11/12/2012 3:18:34 PM PST by SC_Republican (Has it really been THAT long??)
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