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 | It helps the individual agencies. Without United Way funding, each would
have to dissipate a great deal of their resources to organize a separate
funding drive. |
| It benefits the public who would otherwise be faced with many dozens of
requests for support each year. |
| It reduces overhead costs. One funding drive costs less to organize than perhaps 80 individual drives in a community. Thus, a larger percentage of the donations end up in the hands of the agencies. |
There is a growing movement within the United Way to deny funding to agencies that discriminate in the provision of services, employment practices or board membership selection on the basis of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other grounds. An increasing number of United Way agencies have pulled their funding for the Boy Scouts of America in their community because of the BSA's policies of discrimination on the basis of religion and sexual orientation. These included the United Ways of:
| CA: Santa Cruz Count, Bay Area, and Silicon Valley | ||||||||
| CT: Greater New Haven | ||||||||
| FL: Broward County, including the city of Ft. Lauderdale: They pulled
$130,000 in funding for 42,000 boys because the South Florida Boy
Scouts would not sign a non-discrimination policy. According to a
report in the Miami Herald in 2001-JUL, after dialoging with the United
Way and a local gay-positive group, the Scouts decided to:
An anonymous donor donated $200,000 so that the local Scouts could
continue their policies of discrimination intact. | ||||||||
| MA: The United Way of Massachusetts Bay dialoged with the
Boston Minuteman [Boy Scouts] Council and reached agreement in
2001-JUL that the Council would adopt a policy of nondiscrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation. 1 | ||||||||
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ME: Greater Portland. | ||||||||
| NJ: Somerset County | ||||||||
| MN:
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| RI: Southeastern New England. |
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Other councils, appear to have adopted a "don't ask - don't tell" policy, similar to that of the U.S. Armed Forces at the time:
| On 2001-DEC-17, the Associated Press reported that
the Green
Mountain Boy Scouts Council in Vermont council had adopted a policy that "unlike national rules, permits gay
Scouts and Scout leaders." Green
Mountain Council Executive Director Jerry Lupien denied the report. |
| In 2001, Boy Scouts of America's Milwaukee County Council Boy Scouts officials signed the United Way of Greater Milwaukee's non-discrimination policy, but only after having first crossed out the sexual orientation phrase. In 2002, they signed the full statement that covers:
The Council had recently adopted the "don't
ask - don't tell" policy.
Neil Albrecht, executive director of the Milwaukee Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Transgender Community Center, mentioned that Childer's said that the comments were "discouraging and disheartening." Albrecht said:
Gregg Shields, national spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America, said:
He neglected to mention that the anti-gay policy of discrimination extends beyond the BSA leadership to youth members as well. 5 |
This topic continues in Part 2
References used:
The following information sources were used to prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks are not necessarily still active today.
- Candi Cushman, "Who's Selling Out the Scouts?," Citizen, at: http://www.family.org/
- "Florida Boy Scouts under attack," Focus on the Family, at: http://www.family.org/
- Daniel Costello, "Some backers pull Boy Scouts' funding after high courts ruling on gay scouts," Wall Street Journal, 2000-AUG-24
- "Florida Boy Scouts under attack," Focus on the Family, at: http://www.family.org/
- Jessica McBride, "Scouts use 'Don't ask, don't tell'; Approach allows council to sign United Way anti-bias policy," Journal Sentinel Online (Milwaukee, WI), at: http://www.jsonline.com/
- Mark Sherman, "Boy Scouts face setback in Supreme Court," Associated Press, 2006-OCT-16, at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/
- Zach Wahls, "Intel: Stop funding discrimination!," Change.org, at: http://www.change.org
- Camille Beredjick, "UPS quits funding Boy Scouts over anti-gay policy," GayWrites.org, 2012-NOV-13, at: http://gaywrites.org/
- "Merck Foundation Severs Boy Scouts Funding Over Anti-Gay Policy," Huffington Post, 2012-DEC-10, at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
- Rich Ferrato, "Merck Foundation suspends funding to Boy Scouts of America until ban on gay scouts and leaders ends," Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, 2012-DEC-10, at: http://www.glaad.org/
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Copyright © 1999 to 2012 by Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance.
Originally published on 1999-AUG-9
Latest updated: 2012-DEC-10
Author: B.A. Robinson
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