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Look which companies dumping Boy Scouts
http://www.wnd.com ^ | 2-5-2013 | Art Moore

Posted on 02/05/2013 10:50:39 AM PST by Maelstorm

Major corporations that have donated to the Boy Scouts of America in recent years are largely remaining quiet ahead of the highly anticipated vote Wednesday on the organization’s policy on homosexuals, but some have made it clear their money will go only to groups that don’t discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.

In 2010, the latest year for which figures are available, the top donors to the Scouts, listed in descending order according to amount, were Intel, Emerson, Verizon, 3M, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Pfizer, Valero, UPS, U.S. Bank, Eli Lilly and Co., GE, Monsanto, Medtronic, PNC, Nationwide, Abbott, General Mills, Alcoa, Caterpillar, Illinois Tool Works, Allstate and Dow Chemical.

As WND reported last week, a major drop in corporate funding came last September after a gay-rights blogger for the Huffington Post published a collaborative report that named the donors and chastised them for violating their own policy of not discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.

Since the September report, Intel, UPS and Merck are among the corporations that have declared they have stopping funding the BSA.

The homosexual-rights group Scouting for All lists some of the corporations that have refused to fund the BSA’s national organization. They include IBM, Levi Strauss and Company, J.P. Morgan, American Airlines, Medtronic, Portland General Gas and Electric, Hewlett Packard, Textron, Fleet Bank, CVS/Pharmacy Stores and Carrier Corp.

At the time of the September report, shipping giant UPS, which gave $167,000 to the Scouts in 2010, insisted the “gay” policy would not impact its donations. But after a petition drive that month by another homosexual-rights group, Scouts for Equality, UPS changed its mind.

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: boy; bsa; ceo; companies; corporateamerica; corporateliberalism; gaynazis; gays; gaystapo; gaystapotactics; homosexualagenda; intel; lavendermafia; merck; scouts; thoughtcrime; ups
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To: Maelstorm
Shareholders in any Corporation that "dumps" the Boy Scouts in the face of this agitation, should consider raising Cain at the next Annual Meeting--at the very least. Why are so many afraid of the far Left; so disrespectful of Americans with traditional values?

And note Boy Scouts Of America & A Leftwing Agenda.

William Flax

41 posted on 02/05/2013 12:44:22 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: Maelstorm
Morally, this is a very ugly time to live in. A dark age.
42 posted on 02/05/2013 12:44:26 PM PST by Vision (Obama is king of the "Takers." Don't be a "Taker.")
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To: LibertarianLiz

I don’t want to selfish and angry myself, but the fact that corporations cave so quickly tells us a lot about the world we live in today.

I believe in business, free enterprise, capitalism etc. etc.

But business is not only backing away from supporting certain things, its also supporting bad things including the cause of “climate change”

Business-corporate interests are pushing above all the austerity measures in Washington involving spending cuts and tax increases. They are in bed with Dems and RINO’s alike.

Those are band aid measures that keep the big government system in place and do not balance the budget. They keep us on the road to the big fiscal cliff ahead and total collapse.

THE BUSINESS INTERESTS WANT EVERYONE TO THINK EVERYTHING IS OK WITH THESE PHONY CRISIS BAND AIDS WHEN IT ISNT FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH REASONS.

I’m pretty fed up with big corporations right now, but I’m not sure how to proceed.


43 posted on 02/05/2013 12:47:17 PM PST by Nextrush (PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN IS MY DREAM)
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To: Truth2012
The homos are hurting the less fortunate

Homos are selfish, self-centered, egotistical and uncaring about any other than there own disgusting kind.

44 posted on 02/05/2013 12:49:13 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: Ohioan
Sorry. It is pretty bad, when one cannot even type the urls at one's own web site correctly. The link to the article on the Leftist attack on the Scouts should read Boy Scouts & Leftwing Agenda.
45 posted on 02/05/2013 12:49:35 PM PST by Ohioan
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To: LibertarianLiz
Actually, these hedonistic morons are focused on only one thing: Their genitalia and putting them places God never intended them to go.
46 posted on 02/05/2013 1:02:39 PM PST by Dick Bachert ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." T. Jefferson)
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To: Venturer

1.7%ish. 1 point seven friggin’ percent-ish of the population is dictating what the other 98.3% should accept as “Normal.” Worse, the 98.3% are accepting it so as to not offend. Folks in the majority really need to find out who Custer was and start going Lakota on some of these idiots.


47 posted on 02/05/2013 1:04:03 PM PST by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV))
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To: Mathews

I hope I am not included in either of those figures. I do not accept Homosexuality asnormal.

It is an abberation and a sickness of the mind.

And I don’t care who I piss off by saying it.


48 posted on 02/05/2013 1:06:52 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Maelstorm

The Boy Scouts should stop taking “welfare”...anytime you get money without working for it, you might as well call it welfare. The Boy Scouts have a GREAT opportunity now to stop receiving money from EVERYONE and go on their own. This is a learning experience for everyone. Free Money leads to bad morals and beliefs.


49 posted on 02/05/2013 1:09:06 PM PST by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: Pollster1

Don’t forget to add these two:

BSA’s national board includes two corporate CEOs — Randall Stephenson of AT&T and James Turley of Ernst & Young — who have said they will try to end the ban on gay scouts, volunteers and leaders. Stephenson is supposed to be the board’s next chairman.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2983588/posts


50 posted on 02/05/2013 1:12:08 PM PST by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s are the 21st Century's Muskets. The 2nd Amendment is the First Human Right.)
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To: Maelstorm
I admire the tactical strength of the Sodomite lobby and their recognition of the total lack of strength of Euroamerican owned corporations.

Of course the Scouts, ever in need of money, will sell their principles and give in to the Sodomite desire for unfettered access to young boys.

Next of the Sodomite agenda is lowering of the age of consent to the old Common Law age of twelve. I look to California to lead this age lowering movement.

51 posted on 02/05/2013 1:13:58 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: bert

Source?


52 posted on 02/05/2013 1:18:08 PM PST by old and tired
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To: EQAndyBuzz
“We're watching. We CAN boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too. Pick a target, freeze it, polarize it... It works for the left.”

CORRECT! Now let's pass this idea on to others. Email this post and the list of companies who do business with the BSA, and who are and are not planning to contribute to the BSA to those you know. WE CAN boycott these companies who will not stand for traditional values. Traditional values must prevail, and we must fight to keep it so. Saul Alinsky, the socialist, explains so well how socialists deal with their enemies.....they pick a target, freeze it, polarize it. We must do the same to the homosexual element that wants to infiltrate and take over traditional values, and replace them with their own. Vinegar and oil do not mix. And neither do heterosexuals and homosexuals where traditional values are at stake. Let's get going on this now.
53 posted on 02/05/2013 1:33:22 PM PST by itssme
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To: old and tired
I just googled and found out the BSA should have a decision made by Wednesday, 2-6. I'd also like to know where the poster you addressed your inquiry to got his/her information.
54 posted on 02/05/2013 1:53:35 PM PST by itssme
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To: old and tired

-——Source?——

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2985382/posts


55 posted on 02/05/2013 2:02:44 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: old and tired
Boy Scouts Reaffirm Gay Ban After 2-Year Review, Call 972-580-2000 at BSA HQ in Irving, TX
 
56 posted on 02/05/2013 2:03:44 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd; old and tired; bert

Ooops.

Click the link again. Double check the date of the article.

Like I said.... Ooops.


57 posted on 02/05/2013 2:07:15 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: bert

Source

July 2012


58 posted on 02/05/2013 2:19:04 PM PST by super7man
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To: Ohioan

I would hate to see what you would have to do to earn a “rainbow patch” if the BSA caves to the homo agenda.


59 posted on 02/05/2013 2:21:42 PM PST by ThE_RiPpEr.
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To: jsanders2001
We’re watching. We can boycott companies who will not stand for traditional values too.

That's pissing in the wind. They'll never miss you.

60 posted on 02/05/2013 2:23:11 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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