... Michael Bowman, Fowler's legislative assistant, on Thursday emailed Mike Kuhn, assistant scoutmaster for Troop 51 at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church, telling him that the funding had been rejected because "the Boy Scouts organization cannot provide documentation of an employment policy that does not discriminate against individuals, specifically sexual orientation." ...
... Though funding for the Boy Scouts had been approved in previous years, recent attention to the Boy Scout policy had prompted the county attorney's office to look more closely at the request, Halladay said. The Boy Scouts of America altered its policy this year to allow gay scouts, but it still prohibits gay scout leaders. "With the heightened talk, attorneys in the civil division believe that they do discriminate and it is intentional discrimination," Halladay said. ...
... Kuhn wrote an email Thursday to fellow scout leaders, Fowler and Councilmen David Yates and Rick Blackwell, asking that the council reconsider funding the scout swim nights. He also threatened that the scouts may rethink volunteering for local government projects, including Eagle Scout projects at Jefferson Memorial Forest and cleanups along the riverfront and as part of Brightside. "Maybe the unpaid labor provided by the scouts for the multitude of service given to the community on request of the local government should not be forthcoming," wrote Kuhn, who later told The Courier Journal he is tolerant but is concerned about the effect of the decision on children. ...
... The Metro United Way is evaluating whether to continue to direct $250,000 in annual funding to Louisville-area Boy Scouts, and the United Way of the Bluegrass has already withdrawn funding from the scout council in Lexington. ...
And so it goes, to no one's surprise. File this under "ammunition for future use" to force the BSA National Council to amend its membership rules to allow open adult homosexuals.
The pressure keeps piling ...
DoD Human Goals Charter
United Way chapters denying funds to local councils
Local school boards denying local councils to hold school recruiting nights and denying to provide rent-free meeting rooms to units (in essence, denying to be a charter organization)
Fortune 500 corporations denying contributions to BSA National, local councils, and local units
Sometime in APR was the deadline for members of the BSA National Council to submit their petitions/amendments to be considered before the National Council at the annual biz meeting to be held over 5/21-23/2014 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, TN. These recommendations will be handled behind closed doors and assigned to appropriate committees and most likely will not be openly discussed during the published agenda for the ~1.5 hour business meeting. Undoubtedly, someone has submitted the recommendation to accept openly homosexual adults.
Of course, new BSA National Council president-elect, former SoD Robert Gates, will be installed during this meeting for a 2-year tenure. If he doesn't push through open acceptance of open homosexual adults on his watch, then it will most assuredly happen on his successor's watch, Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T.
I wonder what legal majority voters / taxpayers in Louisville think about how this city ordinance is being applied.
well of course. They have to prove how liberal they are, by taking this so called courageous stand.
Liberals claim to take courageous stands in support of liberal causes. I heard somebody in Hollywood not long ago, who said he was fearful of the reaction because he decided to support same-sex marriage. Supporting same-sex marriage would be controversial in Hollywood??? Really???? How deluded are some of these liberals???????
The sodomization of the BSA....it started with just a little bit at first.....just to see how it feels.
The BSA tried to sell only half its soul to the devil.......how's that working out?
A lot of conservatives won't support them anymore because they sold out. The libs still won't support them because they didn't sell out enough.
Louisville KY. I was born there 62 years ago. It was a dump then. It’s a dump now. This comes as no surprise.
Decent folks have shunned them. Now, the other side is shunning them, too.
This is what you get when you give in to the absurd immorality of the LBGT agenda.
Might as well change their name to the Queer Scouts of Amerika & be done with it.
This is the perfect example where conservatives, patriots and veterans need to get up off their butts and show up at the Louisville village council meeting and read the riot act to these Nazis.
It’s amazing what 100 patriots can accomplish vs 7 leftist wimps. Overwhelm them, smear them and post their pictures on lampposts as scum traitors.
If you can’t do this simple thing today, tomorrow you may need to fight for your lives.