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- From: dadams@cray.com (David Adams)
- Subject: Re: Boy Scouts lose funding, SeaFirst bank,
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.105831.19167@hemlock.cray.com>
- Lines: 31
- Reply-To: dadams@cray.com
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul29.155657.1925@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:58:31 CDT
-
- kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
-
- [Reposted from a mailing list]
-
- >Seattle Times Friday July 10 1992 City Edition page A1 (front page!):
-
-
- > BANKS CUT CORPORATE DONATIONS TO SCOUTS
- > Policy of excluding homosexuals is cited
- > By Carol M. Ostrom, Times staff reporter
- >
- > ...
- > 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.
- > ...
- >
-
- So that the real issue isn't it? If UW gives to the BSA they can also give
- to Planned Parenthood. If they drop the BSA they loose the support of
- all those wealthy conservatives. Now, unveiled, we see the UW as the real
- parasite!
-
- This relationship just isn't working out the way it was designed to. It's time
- to drop the UW.
-
- ---
- --David C. Adams Statistician Cray Research Inc. dadams@cray.com
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