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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“..Point worth making these people have either directly or indirectly infiltrated every large corporation in the US.”
add to that every college and university, every church denomination, every level of government, ect.
representing only 2%+ of the population, they have done a masterful job in forcing pro-gay policies in every sector of life. — and I don’t like it!!
JCP angered a lot of social conservatives (including me) with their homo pandering but that is not why their share price is down. The reason is they quit having sales and shoppers bought elsewhere.
> Were watching. We can boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too.
That’s pissing in the wind. They’ll never miss you.
In small numbers no but boycotts seem to work when liberals do it so does that mean they are peeing on their legs too?...: )
Sometimes it’s not the actual damage that’s done by a boycott it’s just the threat or thought of it and the bad PR it creates that moves companies like that to act.
Good point.
Problem is that certain executives are so totally in the tank for PC and anti-family causes that they actually value liberal compliance by their company higher than they value sales and profits! And with a board of directories composed of like kinds there is no chance for sanity to prevail. Doesn't seem to be an obvious path to resolution to this except maybe the passage of time when/if the pendulum swings back.
I agree
I also believe that parents would pay for their kids to be in the Boy Scouts without the gay stuff.......these people just don’t want gay boys to be able to join, they want leaders and scout masters and that is not acceptable.
I currently have six grandsons involved in Scouts. I would gladly sponsor all of them whatever amount the AT&T's and ExxonMobils of the corporate world take away in the name of political correctness.
Additionally, most of their parents could pick up the slack so my money could go to some poorer kids.
Please God let us be so lucky.
Because the whole point is to make more and more people’s lives as uncomfortable as possible until they are given everything they want just to get them to shut up and go away.
This is a trick that every child tries beginning at around age two or three (although it can get even worse during the teenage years). Most parents learn to just ignore it and the child figures out pretty quickly that this tactic doesn’t work. Maybe this group is just too collectively stupid to figure it out.
You’re awesome!
What does God say about being morally straight and reverent?
"Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore or the price of a dog into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow, for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God" (Deut. 23:18)
The BSA should have refused dependence on the support of companies subscribing to such compromise -- including extending troop status for religious organizations that do likewise. And such denominations are now plural. Do they not influence young men to have the wrong idea what moral decency really is? From the pulpit and the Sunday school class? Eh?
Yeah they have redefined tolerance to mean -—> You agree with us or we kill you.
On Lot being a picture of the church .
Yeah , notice that angels had to get them out of there before the judgement came and part of Lot’s family thought the rescue was a joke.
Jacob Prasch gave a nice talk on this
You can find it here .
-Lessons on Lot’s time in Sodom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eey4mrSaxrY
They will always cave to the ones who protest the loudest. And when they have the media on their side telling idiots what to think, the left will win.
WOW! I went through pages and only found happy holidays....
I was really upset too....I clicked on the link they gave me via an email and looked at least 4 pages and nary a ONE that said MERRY CHRISTMAS.....I gave up...
thanks for letting me know that I missed it and was in the wrong.....would rather be corrected than an uninformed idiot...
For many years, the leaders of the Scouts have gotten too tight with Big Business and come to depend on their largess. They were selling their image to this business big shots. The gays have tarnished that image thru incessant attack. So the big companies are backing away. The Scouts are going have to think small again, and just realize that they wont be hobnobbling with the big boys anymore. I wonder if their egos can stand the punishment that has been visited upon the Catholic Church. There is a huge new encampment that is being built in West Virginia, and my guess is that they are depending on continuing donations from those same big shots. Of course, if the cave, then they will lose up to half their membership, because so many troops are connected with conservative churches. If they change their national policy and leave it to local option, then they expose those local troops and its leaders to legal attack.
FYI:
Dear Scouting Friend:
We appreciate your participation and support of Scouting as we help equip your children with the life skills to become a good, strong citizen. This week we will celebrate Scoutings 103rd anniversary, and our focus has remained the same, working together to deliver the nations foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training. I would also like to take this opportunity to update you on the recent discussions within the Scouting family regarding our membership standards policy.
After careful consideration and extensive dialogue within the Scouting family, along with comments from those outside the organization, the volunteer officers of the Boy Scouts of Americas National Executive Board concluded that due to the complexity of this issue, the organization needs time for a more deliberate review of its membership policy.
To that end, the executive board directed its committees to further engage representatives of Scoutings membership and listen to their perspectives and concerns. This will assist the officers work on a resolution on membership standards. The approximately 1,400 voting members of the national council will take action on the resolution at the national meeting in May 2013.
We understand that you may have questions about this announcement and that you may receive questions, and I want you to know that Chicago Area Council is here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to me or my staff at (312) 421-8800 or charles.dobbins@scouting.org so we can assist you with your needs.
America needs Scouting, and our policies must be based on what is in the best interest of our kids. We believe good people can disagree and still work together to accomplish great things for youth.
Going forward, we will work to stay focused on that which unites us. Be a part of this discussion by staying engaged and continuing your role in Scouting. The kids in your community need you.
The corporations that are globalist in ideology are pursuing a one world leftist values, regulation and enforcement. They have chosen the Chi-com marxist/fascist model of global rule. The freedoms and governing structure of the US constitution (and the Americans that insist upon the rule of law), must be overcome by any means neccessary for globalists to progress their one world culural and ruling agenda.
The fascist model of global rule appeals to them because they get political protection from the workers they abuse and monopolies as politicans decide the winners and losers in business. Many corporate leaders supported Hitler’s regime for the same reason.
I just heard BSA has delayed any decision. During that pendency, supporters of BSA who want to maintain the exclusion of gays (especially leaders) should target ONE former donor that has now withdrawn support. Just one, not a blanket boycott. Those never work.
Unfortunately, the gay groups’ members have fewer demands on their time than Scouts’ parents, to organize protests, to generate letters, calls, etc. So a concentrated effort towards just one company would be the effective way to go about it for supporters.
It’s effectively what the Obama EPA administrator talked about in the crucifying a few men in a conquered village so the others could see what might be in store for them if they don’t go along with the program. Turn around/fair play and all that jazz.
If you want to see what's going to happen to BSA should they reject the Scout Oath and the Scout Law, just look at what happened to the Episcopal Church of the US after they embraced “alternate lifestyles.”
In 1970 the Episcopal Church had nearly 900,000 children enrolled in their Sunday School offerings, nationwide. By 2003, after they'd become “gay-friendly,” the numbers of children enrolled in those same programs had fallen to less than 300,000.
Was “all” that loss due to the alternate lifestyle issue? Certainly not. But when you look at the roles of similar programs in other Bible-based Churches your see a vastly different trend.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.