Posted on 03/14/2002 11:51:45 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:52:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
At least 39 United Way affiliates around the country have stopped direct community funding of the Boy Scouts to protest the Scouts' ban on homosexual leaders.
"I'd estimate these decisions affected 10 [percent] to 15 percent of the average income of an affected [Boy Scouts] council, and they've totaled millions of dollars. And when it happens, we have to find other ways to raise those dollars," said Gregg Shields, spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
I hope the United Way will continue to lose funds over their ban of the Scouts. Do NOT give at the office. . .make your voice heard. . .do NOT send checks for disaster relief to United Way. . .
. . .do not know of another 'way' save the 'mighty dollar' to send a message.
. . .conversely, that dollar not sent to United Way, could be delivered to the Scouts instead.
May the Scouts continue to prosper with their message and their goals.
That's a misstatement. It is discriminatory; SCOTUS found that the discrimination in question is permissible under the law because of the BSA's 1A freedom of association. New Jersey disagreed, but that's their problem, now that SCOTUS has reversed them.
The article doesn't throw in perspective the high-gear political campaign the organized gays have been running from five minutes after the SCOTUS decision came down, to cut off BSA funding in order either to pressure BSA to change the policy they had just defended all the way to the Supreme Court, or effectively to destroy the BSA, and allow the pieces to be picked up by gay-friendly orgs.
These developments may represent a high tide in public debate for the homosexuals' cause. The ecclesiastical scandals now mushrooming everywhere, despite Uebermedia attempts to spin the issues as "pedophilia" rather than outright homosexual mass pederasty, will probably cause people in responsible positions in youth programs everywhere to rethink their politics on this issue.
The double bind for the media elite is that they would like to make these stories go away on the one hand (like they used to do all the time), but on the other hand, the Catholic Church, as a "non-reconciling" conservative, Levitical authority, is an absolutely irresistible target.
My call: Expect the media A-gays to hold their hands over the Episcopalians, who are very close to "rolling over" on homosexuality (the gay seminarians have apparently won in North America, even if uncorrupted Anglican bishops continue to fight a containment battle in the rest of the world), and perhaps the Methodists, while continuing to pound the Catholics, Mormons, and conservative Protestants as hard as they can.
Fine..
I won't support the United Way ..
I'll just send my donation directly to the Scouts
Problem solved for me
Yeah, right. Tommy, have you met my Uncle Jack? He's a counselor with Center Lane.
*snicker*
Double talk designed to hide a deep animosity to the Boy Scouts.
amen
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If one of the chapters funded a Klan chapter, I wonder if Mr DeCristofaro would still sing this refrain.
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