To: RonF
"Since the 2000 Supreme Court decision, ruling that the Boy Scouts-a private organization-was free to set its member selection criteria, even if it discriminated against homosexuals, several national donors to the Boy Scouts have reduced and/or eliminated contributions, including the Pew Charitable Trusts, regional chapters of the United Way."
This is exaclty why the United Way no longer gets any of my money.
4 posted on
10/01/2003 8:39:25 AM PDT by
anoldafvet
(Democrats: Making the world safe for terrorists one lie at a time.)
To: anoldafvet
If you Google "United Way" + "Boy Scouts", the vast majority of articles you'll see are ones about UW chapters that are funding their local BSA Councils. Only about 50 of the 1600+ UW chapters are not funding their local Councils, and many of those are funding the BSA "Learning for Life" program. And no UW chapter has any influence over the funding choices of any other UW chapter; they operate independently. Now, if you want to condemn a particular UW chapter because of it's funding policies, that's fine. But you need to understand the facts.
8 posted on
10/01/2003 9:55:40 AM PDT by
RonF
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