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UPS ends grants to Boy Scouts over discrimination
Associated Press ^ | Nov. 12, 2012

Posted on 11/12/2012 3:01:58 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

ATLANTA (AP) -- The UPS Foundation says it will no longer give grants to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group excludes gays and lesbians from being scouts or scout leaders.

The philanthropic arm of the Atlanta-based shipping giant made the change Thursday after an online petition protesting the foundation's annual grants to the Boy Scouts attracted more than 80,000 signatures.

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KEYWORDS: boyscouts; pedophilia; ups
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I practically never use UPS anymore. They’re slow and too expensive. For being a semi-govt. operation, USPS seems to do the best job, both with on-time and cost. And with the least shipping damage.


21 posted on 11/12/2012 3:20:18 PM PST by beelzepug ("Why bother creating wealth when you can just redistribute it?")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FUPS.


22 posted on 11/12/2012 3:20:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: TexasGunLover

That’s right, thanks for reminding me.


23 posted on 11/12/2012 3:22:07 PM PST by zerosix (Native sunflower)
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To: ABQHispConservative

what can Brown do to you, little boy?


24 posted on 11/12/2012 3:22:37 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: skeeter

What they really don’t like are people that are INFLEXIBLE.

If you are inflexible, you can’t be cajoled / controlled into doing things others demand that you do. Which means INFLEXIBLE == LIBS HAVE NO POWER OVER YOU.


25 posted on 11/12/2012 3:22:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My wife and I have no heirs, so BSA is one of the beneficiaries of our estate.


26 posted on 11/12/2012 3:23:13 PM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: Dawgreg

This is insanity.

We don’t put Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in tents together.

So what is the difference between putting an eighteen-year old female leader in a tent with fifteen year old male and and putting some hypersexed gay leader in there with the kid?

Our culture is going down fast.


27 posted on 11/12/2012 3:23:30 PM PST by heye2monn (A)
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To: who knows what evil?

Brown short-sleeved shirts, and very short brown shorts....well, just sayin’/s;)


28 posted on 11/12/2012 3:23:53 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Discrimination?

It used to be called "free association". Well, the libs can call it what they want. Their "undocumented workers" will always be illegal aliens to me.

29 posted on 11/12/2012 3:24:28 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Maybe someone can start a counter petition telling UPS that if they do this the people will no longer use their services?


30 posted on 11/12/2012 3:29:50 PM PST by ducttape45
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To: dfwgator

Now we know the reasons the UPS guys wear tight shorts. Buncha’ fagitos if you ask me. I’ll ask the next UPS carrier to stop here if he’s AC/DC or just DC ~


31 posted on 11/12/2012 3:29:56 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Secret Agent Man

And to add to my point,

when did sticking to what you believe is right and good, being inflexible or something that requires compromise?

When did an ever-shifting morality become the highest virtue? When did taking the spineless, gutless moral position that “It’s All Good, Baby” become the highest moral pinnacle? Do whatever, we won’t judge - we’ll just attack anyone who doesn’t agree with us. That’s the current highest moral standard of the left today. Hardly inspiring. If you agree with us, you’re awesome. If you don’t you’re hateful.

Who made them the deciders of all things moral? They say inflexible old morals are the reasons why things are the way we are today. I submit the chaos of the last 50 years of moral relativism and the concurrent increasing assault of those with strong Christian moral foundations are seeing the results of their own “do whatever you want, you’re super” no-guilt, no-shame morality - or lack of - has created.


32 posted on 11/12/2012 3:31:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why do these people do this.

Are Homosexuals so embedded in the United States that companies such as this would sellout boy scouts for queers?

Obviously they are.

What a damned shame that America has more respect for Fudge packers that the youth of America.

What a sick Company


33 posted on 11/12/2012 3:34:01 PM PST by Venturer
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To: who knows what evil?
It will be FedEx for me...

Yep. Same here - No queer.

Besides, Fed Ex is a lot faster, and their packages aren't crushed like the ones you get from UPS.

The majority of the nation supports the little boys. Who wouldn't? This needs to go viral just so companies understand the consequences of bending over for homosexuals (literally).

34 posted on 11/12/2012 3:35:21 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: zerosix

Well, that answers the question about “what can brown do for you...” Nothing now.... If it’s brown and stinks...must be UPS.


35 posted on 11/12/2012 3:37:10 PM PST by ptsal (E)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Yet another example of why our founders designed this country as a representative republic.

Pure democracy is mob rule.

36 posted on 11/12/2012 3:43:47 PM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: heye2monn

Dateline 2072 — United Interstellar Parcel Service (formerly UPS), the largest shipping company in the SinoAmerican Superstate, has announced it is withdrawing monetary support from the Omnisexual Youth Scouts of Sino-America due to their discrimination against man-boy-boy polygamous couples and their failure to show sufficient enthusiasm during last year’s Annual Obama Day Parade. “Despite a few hateful protesters hiding in the backwoods of Idaho, shifting demographics and generational views make man-boy-boy acceptance an inevitability,” said the preserved head of Barney Frank.


37 posted on 11/12/2012 3:46:10 PM PST by Callahan
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Big deal, businesses shouldn’t donate shareholder money anyway.


38 posted on 11/12/2012 3:47:56 PM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: olezip

When not contact UPS and see if it’s true first. Maybe they never gave them grants to begin with.


39 posted on 11/12/2012 3:50:14 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: DallasSun

And in point of fact, this issue was litigated all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Court ruled that the Boy Scouts have the legal right to discriminate or set standards which exclude homosexuals.

But, the liberals act as if that case never happened, as they continue to harass the Scouts about “discrimination”.


40 posted on 11/12/2012 3:52:46 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego ('s)
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