Boy Scouts Lose Their Biggest Corporate Donor Over Anit-Gay Policy

This makes me joyful. Have always been disgusted by closed minded the scouts organization has been and also never had any fun being one.

 

I was a boy scout as a kid. I didn't even realize at the time that I was secretly a spy for their worst enemy.

 

Win

 

Agreed.

 

Intel would be correct here. The Boy Scouts of America are a problematic organization that should be made to feel extreme political pressure.

 

I don't understand why the boy scout is so special, it's a waste of funds from anyone, give that money straight into welfare for both genders of kids and research programs

 

having been involved with both guiding and scouting in the uk I can tell you that over here there is far less discrimination.
for example one of the leaders who helped with one of the Brownie units I worked with as well as running two scout units of her own was openly gay.
strangely they were more accepting than the area in general.

in conclusion..
UK guiding and scouting is far less discrimitary than American variants.

 

As Chip also said, this is bittersweet for me.

I'm glad that Intel has pulled its funding, because I think BSA's discriminatory policies are horrible. However, as someone who started as a Tiger Cub and eventually became an Eagle Scout, it saddens me to see this happening. Scouts does good things; it's just ashame that not all boys can partake in those things.

Hopefully losing big donors like this will put mounting pressure on BSA to change their ways.

 

Which makes me all the more hopeful that they will feel the results of their bigotry, and be forced to (even begrudgingly) make the right decision. I can only hope more sponsors follow suit and demand a policy change even more quickly.

 

LOL, if the national organization ever conducted a raid of the troop I'm a member of, we'd lose a huge chunk of our members to the anti-atheism rule. I'm glad I live in the hole in the Bible Belt.

 

ha. so was I. i started in Tiger Cubs & planned on making it to Eagle. I made it to Weblos before getting out because of moving so much. can't say i'd want to go back now though.

 

my boy scout troop was so political, and I dont mean liberal/conservative, I mean that it was who you knew, not how hard you worked, that defined how far you got. if you were chummy with the spoiled shits born of the scout masters rancid seed, you didnt have to do jack squat, and they would make you eagle. if the shitbrains didnt like you, they got their dad to hold you back, even if you did ten times as much work as the shitnuggets.

my brother fulfilled every requirement to eagle, and the scout master refused to sign off on it, and I was basically mistreated mercifully, so I left before advancing to any higher rank.

it is weird, because as a webeo, I earned every single merit possible. I had proven myself already, and they just treated me like shit. I know why, because my brother out-shown the skankdroppings of the scout master, and did it with humility and a smile, so they took it out on me.

 

This is pretty much how my second troop was like (my original troop folded, so I had to transfer). Because a few of the scoutmasters didn't like me, I almost didn't get my Eagle. They blacklisted another kid and wouldn't let him get Eagle, and they tried to do it to me, too. They just didn't know that I was very good friends with one of the most powerful people in the entire council, and so thanks to that, I had the opportunity to achieve Eagle.

 

Good for Intel!