Posted on 02/05/2013 10:50:39 AM PST by Maelstorm
Major corporations that have donated to the Boy Scouts of America in recent years are largely remaining quiet ahead of the highly anticipated vote Wednesday on the organizations policy on homosexuals, but some have made it clear their money will go only to groups that dont discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.
In 2010, the latest year for which figures are available, the top donors to the Scouts, listed in descending order according to amount, were Intel, Emerson, Verizon, 3M, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Valero, UPS, U.S. Bank, Eli Lilly and Co., GE, Monsanto, Medtronic, PNC, Nationwide, Abbott, General Mills, Alcoa, Caterpillar, Illinois Tool Works, Allstate and Dow Chemical.
As WND reported last week, a major drop in corporate funding came last September after a gay-rights blogger for the Huffington Post published a collaborative report that named the donors and chastised them for violating their own policy of not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.
Since the September report, Intel, UPS and Merck are among the corporations that have declared they have stopping funding the BSA.
The homosexual-rights group Scouting for All lists some of the corporations that have refused to fund the BSAs national organization. They include IBM, Levi Strauss and Company, J.P. Morgan, American Airlines, Medtronic, Portland General Gas and Electric, Hewlett Packard, Textron, Fleet Bank, CVS/Pharmacy Stores and Carrier Corp.
At the time of the September report, shipping giant UPS, which gave $167,000 to the Scouts in 2010, insisted the gay policy would not impact its donations. But after a petition drive that month by another homosexual-rights group, Scouts for Equality, UPS changed its mind.
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And note Boy Scouts Of America & A Leftwing Agenda.
William Flax
I don’t want to selfish and angry myself, but the fact that corporations cave so quickly tells us a lot about the world we live in today.
I believe in business, free enterprise, capitalism etc. etc.
But business is not only backing away from supporting certain things, its also supporting bad things including the cause of “climate change”
Business-corporate interests are pushing above all the austerity measures in Washington involving spending cuts and tax increases. They are in bed with Dems and RINO’s alike.
Those are band aid measures that keep the big government system in place and do not balance the budget. They keep us on the road to the big fiscal cliff ahead and total collapse.
THE BUSINESS INTERESTS WANT EVERYONE TO THINK EVERYTHING IS OK WITH THESE PHONY CRISIS BAND AIDS WHEN IT ISNT FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH REASONS.
I’m pretty fed up with big corporations right now, but I’m not sure how to proceed.
Homos are selfish, self-centered, egotistical and uncaring about any other than there own disgusting kind.
1.7%ish. 1 point seven friggin’ percent-ish of the population is dictating what the other 98.3% should accept as “Normal.” Worse, the 98.3% are accepting it so as to not offend. Folks in the majority really need to find out who Custer was and start going Lakota on some of these idiots.
I hope I am not included in either of those figures. I do not accept Homosexuality asnormal.
It is an abberation and a sickness of the mind.
And I don’t care who I piss off by saying it.
The Boy Scouts should stop taking “welfare”...anytime you get money without working for it, you might as well call it welfare. The Boy Scouts have a GREAT opportunity now to stop receiving money from EVERYONE and go on their own. This is a learning experience for everyone. Free Money leads to bad morals and beliefs.
Don’t forget to add these two:
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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2983588/posts
Of course the Scouts, ever in need of money, will sell their principles and give in to the Sodomite desire for unfettered access to young boys.
Next of the Sodomite agenda is lowering of the age of consent to the old Common Law age of twelve. I look to California to lead this age lowering movement.
Source?
Ooops.
Click the link again. Double check the date of the article.
Like I said.... Ooops.
Source
July 2012
I would hate to see what you would have to do to earn a “rainbow patch” if the BSA caves to the homo agenda.
That's pissing in the wind. They'll never miss you.
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