"Scouters" is a term principally applied to all adult volunteer leaders from the unit level up to district/council/region/national levels. Those employed by BSA are generally referred to as the "professionals."
Yes, you got it. Fortune 500 is who drove this within the BSA. The most visible guilty culprits were ...
National President - Wayne Perry, a Mormon and co-owner of the MLB's Seattel Mariners
National Commissioner - Hector Perez, attorney and owner of a consulting firm
Past National President - Rex Tillerson, CEO Exxon/Mobil
National Executive Committee member - Randall Stephenson, CEO AT&T
National Executive Committee member - James Turley, CEO Ernst & Young
And they did this even though it would drive out an additional hundred thousand scouts, in a movement already in decades-long decline? Why??
Basically the BSA has been under siege by homosexualists since ~1990. BSA has been facing increasing pressure from school systems which will not let them recruit in public schools unless BSA accepts open homosexuals. United Way chapters across the nation have been de-funding local BSA councils because of the ban on homosexuals. UW has been a major source of local councils' budgets for a long time. The Human Rights Campaign has successfully penetrated Fortune 500 personnel (Human Resources) departments with the result that Fortune 500 has now adopted the homosexual agenda.
How did the gays, 2% of the population, exert this much pressure on Fortune 500 donors?
1980 - The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was founded. It is the largest LGBTQ equality-rights advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the U.S.
2002 – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) published its 1st Corporate Equality Index. It is a tool to rate American businesses on their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. The Corporate Equality Index chooses companies to rank, and rates them on a scale of 0 to 100 based on flexible criteria grounded in the "10 principles" of the Equality Project. These include ...
A written policy of nondiscrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.
Inclusion of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in its diversity and sensitivity training.
Parity in domestic partner benefits required by certain laws like the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Appropriate and respectful advertising to the LGBT community.
Transgender-inclusive health insurance benefits.
Rejection of any activities that would undermine the goal of equal rights for LGBT people.
Many companies are pressured to change policies that have earned them a poor score on the index, due to bad press. This has led to a competitive atmosphere among businesses to stay current in the latest LGBT-related inclusive policies. Larger corporations are much more likely to change LGBT-related policies as a result of the index than small or medium companies are. The Human Rights Campaign focuses on larger companies in the CEI, so smaller businesses are subject to little public backlash due to the efforts of the Human Rights Campaign and the index.
The 2012 HRC CEI report rated 636 companies of which 190 scored 100 %. Eighty-eight of the Fortune 500 companies received perfect scores - which was even more rigorous this time around because the top rating required employers to extend health insurance coverage without exclusions to transgender employees. The 1 glaring exception to this trend remained Irving(TX)-based ExxonMobil. It was the only company to get a negative rating in the index, out of 636 that were scored, including all those on the Fortune 500 list. By comparison, half of the companies in the top 20 of the Fortune 500 list received perfect scores, Chevron among them. AT&T and Ernst&Young also have perfect CEI records.
5/29/2013 – For the 14th straight year, ExxonMobil shareholders overwhelmingly rejected by 81% a proposition to incorporate into the company’s written non-discrimination policy language explicitly prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The ExxonMobil Board of Directors, in a proxy statement, recommended that shareholders vote against the proposal.
9/27/2013 – Exxon Mobil Corp. announced that it would begin offering benefits to legally married same-sex couples in the U.S. for the 1st time starting next week. The company said it would recognize "all legal marriages" when it determines eligibility for health care plans for the company's 77,000 employees and retirees in the U.S. That means if a homosexual employee has been married in a state or country where homosexual marriage is legal, his or her spouse will be eligible for benefits with Exxon in the U.S. as of 10/01/2013. Exxon, which is facing a same-sex discrimination complaint in Illinois, said it was following the lead of the U.S. government.
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