Intel Halts Boy Scout Donations Over Anti-Gay Policy

[rossum]

Actions have consequences:

This week, Intel, which was recently identified as the Scouts’ largest corporate funder, announced that it is no longer giving to the youth organization. In 2010, Intel reportedly gave more than $700,000 to local troops and councils.

In a statement to ThinkProgress, Intel clarified its policies, and said that it would no longer give to organizations that were out of step with its nondiscrimination principles. “Earlier this year we revisited our policies associated with the program, and applied new rigor that requires any organization to confirm that it adheres to Intel’s anti-discrimination policy in order to receive funding,” Intel’s Chief Diversity Officer wrote in the statement to ThinkProgress. According to ThinkProgress, those Boy Scout troops and councils that do allow gay troops and leaders, in defiance of the organization’s policy, are still eligible for Intel’s funding.

Source: huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/22/intel-stops-boy-scout-don_n_1905856.html

rossum

 

[austenbosten]

:nope: How come nobody stops supporting Anti-Family Policies?

 

[interestedman]

:nope: How come nobody stops supporting Anti-Family Policies?

What are anti family policies?

And boy scouts discriminating against gays is shameful. Also, there are probably more gay kids in boy scouts than there are in the regular population.

 

[austenbosten]

What are anti family policies?

And boy scouts discriminating against gays is shameful. Also, there are probably more gay kids in boy scouts than there are in the regular population.

What is anti-gay? Doesn’t the BSA have the right to refuse admittance to persons of its choosing?

Also hyperboles do not make you correct.

 

[HappyPagan]

What is anti-gay? Doesn’t the BSA have the right to refuse

They do indeed and I support this!

I also support Intel’s right to donate there money to whom they please, it goes both ways you see.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

What is anti-gay? Doesn’t the BSA have the right to refuse admittance to persons of its choosing?

Yes, it does, just as Intel has the right to fund only organizations of its own choosing.

 

[JimG]

“According to ThinkProgress, those Boy Scout troops and councils that do allow gay troops and leaders, in defiance of the organization’s policy, are still eligible for Intel’s funding.”

Intel to Boy Scouts: ‘If you have homosexual Scout leaders, we’ll give you money.’

Sounds like Intel is discriminating against Boy Scout troops which abide by their own organization’s policy.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

“According to ThinkProgress, those Boy Scout troops and councils that do allow gay troops and leaders, in defiance of the organization’s policy, are still eligible for Intel’s funding.”

Intel to Boy Scouts: ‘If you have homosexual Scout leaders, we’ll give you money.’

Sounds like Intel is discriminating against Boy Scout troops which abide by their own organization’s policy.

It doesn’t matter. The question is not discrimination, but to whom an organization is willing to donate money. The BSA can’t sue saying “you give money to them, why haven’t you given some to us?”

 

[scipio337]

Are HuffPo and Thinkprogress now considered “news” sources, and if so, can I also post National Review articles as “news”?

Breaking news: Liberals consider anything that doesn’t conform to their narrow weltanschauung as “anti”.

Catholic Church is “anti homosexual” because it bars active homosexuals from the priesthood.

You’re “anti-women” if you don’t support the slaughter of 1 million fetuses a year.

You’re “anti-poor” if you don’t support confiscatory wealth redistribution.

Actions do have consequences, rossum. My next computer will be an Apple or have an AMD processor.

And I’m making a donation to the BSA.

I learned a lot during the left’s brownshirt shout down tactics against the Komen Foundation. Two can tango in that case.

 

[JimG]

It doesn’t matter. The question is not discrimination, but to whom an organization is willing to donate money. The BSA can’t sue saying “you give money to them, why haven’t you given some to us?”

There’s been no suggestion that BSA would sue Intel for lack of support!

I would only note that increasingly, many companies seem to use their corporate donations as a way to try to force politically correct policies on recipient organizations.

Some Catholic parishes have stopped sponsoring Girl Scout troops because some of them had ties to pro-choice organizations. If the Boy Scouts cave in to pro-homosexual pressure, parishes would find themselves in an untentable position with respect to Boy Scout sponsorship.

 

[austenbosten]

They do indeed and I support this!

I also support Intel’s right to donate there money to whom they please, it goes both ways you see.

Yes, it does, just as Intel has the right to fund only organizations of its own choosing.

And I agree my point was it seems there is more emphasis on refusing to support groups that are deemed “anti-gay” as opposed to groups that are “anti-traditional marriage”

BSA has the right to refuse admittance to anyone who doesn’t fit the criteria
Intel has the right to refuse to donate money to groups that don’t meet their criteria
and I have the right to criticize Intel’s decision.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

Breaking news: Liberals consider anything that doesn’t conform to their narrow weltanschauung as “anti”.

More news. Conservatives who see everything as anti-Christian or anti-American or anti-free enterprise.

Two can tango in that case.

For me, the magic word!

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

BSA has the right to refuse admittance to anyone who doesn’t fit the criteria
Intel has the right to refuse to donate money to groups that don’t meet their criteria
and I have the right to criticize Intel’s decision.

Indeed, on all three points!!

 

[scipio337]

More news. Conservatives who see everything as anti-Christian or anti-American or anti-free enterprise.

Yes, because you can see in my post history that I use such arbitrary labels.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

I would only note that increasingly, many companies seem to use their corporate donations as a way to try to force politically correct policies on recipient organizations.

If not politically correct policies, at least policies that match the desires of the funding company. The Girl Scouts can be defunded by one side, the BSA by the other. Nothing wrong with that!

 

[Elizium23]

I think it’s now officially impossible to use a computer without supporting the homosexualist agenda. The Catholic Church should sponsor a “family values” computer industry if she expects us to continue the New Evangelization!

Personally, I don’t go in much for boycotts. I go to Starbucks twice a week, I use my Facebook account and my Google Mail/Search daily, my computer is stuffed with Intel; I am sure that Ubuntu supports anti-Catholic values in any way possible - it’s just impossible for me to avoid in the modern world. So sue me.

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

interestedman:

Quote:

Originally Posted by austenbosten

How come nobody stops supporting Anti-Family Policies?

What are anti family policies?

And boy scouts discriminating against gays is shameful. Also, there are probably more gay kids in boy scouts than there are in the regular population.

The Boy Scouts do not discriminate. Sexuality, in all forms, is not part of the scouting program. What is forbidden in scouts is the open advocacy of the homosexual lifestyle, because open advocacy of any sexual lifestyle is outside of the program goals of scouting.

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[georget]

What are anti family policies?

And boy scouts discriminating against gays is shameful. Also, there are probably more gay kids in boy scouts than there are in the regular population.

Okay!

 

[JimG]

Personally, I oppose corporate charitable funding in general. Is charitable funding a part of any corporation’s corporate charter? I doubt it. They have something that they do well–serve coffee, make electronics, make chicken sandwiches, make doughnuts, make cellphones, whatever. Investors buy shares in the company because they believe the company can be profitable doing the things it does best, not because it donates to outside organizations.

If the company has money to give away, it should be reinvested in the company, paid to employees, or paid to stockholders in the form of dividends. To quote Calvin Coolidge, “The business of business is business.”

Employees and stockholders can give to outside organizations. And if the company reinvests money in the business, more people get jobs. A win-win, instead of antagonizing part of your customers.

 

[Lochias]

Intel’s products provide me with the means to support traditional views on marriage and sex.

Their announcement amounts to nothing more than sour grapes. Let 'em take their ball and go home.

I, too, will be supporting BSA.