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Merck Foundation ends Boy Scout
funding over gay rights stance
Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:Ribicon, 12/10/2012 2:55:32 PM
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| Merck´s charitable foundation has stopped giving money to the Boy Scouts of America. The Merck Foundation says the Boy Scouts´ exclusion of gays from its ranks and leadership positions conflicts with giving guidelines and the company´s nondiscrimination policy. The foundation says it will reconsider giving money to the Boy Scouts if they change their policy on sexual orientation. Merck CEO Kenneth C. Frazier was a scout in his youth. He received the "Good Scout" Award from the Philadelphia Cradle of Liberty Boy Scout Council in June. Records show the foundation gave $30,000 to The Boy Scouts of America in 2011
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Comments:
Culture war waged by charitable arms of companies and by government bodies: "Money only flows to where anything goes. All others are punished for not seeing things our way."
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross, 12/10/2012 3:03:08 PM (No. 9058098)
I´m sure the Merck Foundation members are all perfectly fine with their 14 year old daughters going on overnight trips in small tents with heterosexual men.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ccyr, 12/10/2012 3:13:56 PM (No. 9058115)
It would be nice if Merck would take this funding and put it in a pool to compensate boy scouts who are victims of pedophile scout leaders.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JimS, 12/10/2012 3:16:02 PM (No. 9058118)
Were those self-important, pompous, liberals on the Merck Foundation board living under rock during the Sandusky scandal?
The Boy Scouts discriminate against GAY SCOUTMASTERS and TROOP LEADERS to avoid pedophilia.
Contrary to what gays say, sex abuse of young boys is a form of homosexuality. Those pedophiles just like them younger than the other gays.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
liberalslovetaxes, 12/10/2012 3:31:15 PM (No. 9058144)
Probably a business decision. Gotta keep making AIDS drugs. Must support homosexuals in order to keep the patient list growing for more drugs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fritzilou, 12/10/2012 3:32:40 PM (No. 9058147)
The very same people who want Republicans to stay out of social issues turn around and stick their noses in the social issues. These businesses all disgust me. We now live in an unfree coercive society.
The issue should be discussed by the people and decided by the people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/10/2012 3:36:37 PM (No. 9058157)
We are free to NOT purchase any Merck products.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
tgfrr, 12/10/2012 3:38:07 PM (No. 9058160)
Attaining the privilege of being a Scout Master is a pedophiles dream. Merck is supposed to be a company which bases its entire business on controlled population studies. Have they even considered researching the issue??? I gaurantee that the Boy Scouts did in the past and came to the right conclusion, no gays in leadership roles.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 12/10/2012 3:38:44 PM (No. 9058162)
The scouts can´t afford gay scoutmasters. They have been sued too many times in the past by molested scouts. It takes a lot of gall to support child molestation over the well-being of boys. All for the great god of political correctness.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
minuteman, 12/10/2012 3:39:14 PM (No. 9058163)
That statement, #6, may have been true before obamacare...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Penney, 12/10/2012 3:45:32 PM (No. 9058177)
Yet ANOTHER statist, ´Foundation,´ tool targets America´s ethical & moral culture through the Boy Scouts Organization with this blatant attempt to, ´´CHANGE,´´ ´´RE-SET,´´ and shove America, ´´FORWARD,´´ into the abyss of lefty/lib societal chaos, ...´´MARCH: HUP 2-3-4?!!!´´ -YIKES!!!
Is the lefty/lib/statists success several years ago in, ´changing,´ & redirecting the original Girl Scouts Organization several years ago, the reason the lefties never bother harrassing them anymore? And then there was the Y.W.Christian.A, the Y.M.Christian.A. and on & on, as one targeted benevolence is taken down at a time. Statists´ ultimate tyrannical goal is clarifing right before our eyes as their BIG Government BLOB
creeps over & engulfs every possible individual´s Right to freedom.
The statist dems aren´t about, ´´individual choice,´´ but rather about dictates to the masses and such Foundations are but useful tools to that end.
mmm mmm mmm
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Xokie2, 12/10/2012 3:49:03 PM (No. 9058184)
Once upon a time we were all more or less agreed that a minority should not have the moral viewpoint of the majority imposed upon them; now we have the immorality of the minorities imposed upon the majority at all times in all aspects of life and are expected to make no objection.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/10/2012 4:08:03 PM (No. 9058226)
Whatever it takes for drug approvals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
altoona, 12/10/2012 4:15:27 PM (No. 9058241)
Obama recently hosted all the big charitable groups to pressure them to support his tax the rich meme. Who´s to say that this foundation was not pressured by O to drop support for the Boy Scouts. I put nothing past this White House.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lawsy0, 12/10/2012 4:57:39 PM (No. 9058329)
As Skeeter Davis and Teresa Brewer sang, ´´Got along without ya before I met ya, gonna get along without ya now.´´
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 12/10/2012 5:13:37 PM (No. 9058365)
Stonewall et al will no doubt remain on the donation list.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
yuban, 12/10/2012 5:17:05 PM (No. 9058372)
The Scouts will survive without Merck.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
berthabutt, 12/10/2012 6:32:23 PM (No. 9058505)
Here´s link to all the retail products they produce, http://www.merck.com/product/consumer-products/home.html
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 12/10/2012 6:33:34 PM (No. 9058507)
Most of the Scouting families (like mine) have long, long begged BSA to get with it when it comes to some sharp professional PR consultants. They are just like our GOP - losing the PR war continually. The facts are as laid out by #3. BSA makes serious efforts to protect our boys.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
LaVallette, 12/11/2012 5:22:22 AM (No. 9058908)
The pederasts are after your children!
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