Caterpillar Drops Boy Scouts Support Over Gay Ban
Associated Press
23 hours 57 min ago
Caterpillar Inc. Is no longer giving money to the Boy Scouts because
the organization discriminates against homosexuals, a spokeswoman for
the Illinois-based heavy equipment manufacturer confirmed Thursday. The
company's move wasn't directly tied to the recent Boy Scouts decision to
continue to bar homosexual adults from roles within the organization
while allowing openly gay children to be scouts. Instead, spokeswoman
Rachel Potts said, the company decided to cut off funding while
reviewing a request for $25,000 that came in last year from a local
group in Illinois. That decision was never announced publicly or
communicated to the Boy Scouts of America, only to the local group, she
said. But she added that the Boy Scouts' policy that continues to bar
homosexual adults from working in the organization is "discriminatory."
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