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- From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Boy Scouts lose funding, SeaFirst bank, Seattle.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.155657.1925@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 15:56:57 GMT
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- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- >Seattle Times Friday July 10 1992 City Edition page A1 (front page!):
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- > BANKS CUT CORPORATE DONATIONS TO SCOUTS
- > Policy of excluding homosexuals is cited
- > By Carol M. Ostrom, Times staff reporter
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- > ... Seafirst President Luke Helms ...
- > But his bank, owned by BankAmerica Corp., will no longer support
- >the Boy Scouts through corporate gifts. The Scouts' policy of
- >excluding boys and leaders on the basis of their sexual orientation
- >conflicts with the non-discrimination policies at Seafirst and
- >BankAmerica.
- > ...
- > The organization already has been excluded from Seattle's
- >Combined Charities campaign. Barring a change of heart on the part of
- >the Scouts, the group also will be excluded from King County's
- >campaign in the fall. In addition, First Interstate Bank, following a
- >new decision at corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, will no longer
- >give money directly to the Scouts.
- > ...
- > In Seattle, the controversy is haunting a nervous United Way,
- >still smarting from a 1988 fund-raising campaign crippled by a
- >controversy over funding of Planned Parenthood.
- > ...
- > While the decision by Seafirst cuts off direct corporate
- >contributions, the bank still will give a corporate gift to United
- >Way. United Way is free to distribute it to its member agencies.
- > ...
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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