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  3. From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
  4. Newsgroups: rec.scouting,alt.discrimination,alt.atheism,alt.politics.homosexuality
  5. Subject: Re: BofA and UW can now support discrimination against blacks and Jews
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug30.161059.22106@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
  7. Date: 30 Aug 92 16:10:59 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: m.1992Aug30.161059.22106
  9. References: <1992Aug21.134007.17942@spdc.ti.com>     <1992Aug24.170749.6911@microsoft.com> <1992Aug26.133519.28979@sdc.com>     <1992Aug28.181822.20765@microsoft.com>     <1992Aug28.220301.14484@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <RLK.92Aug29202355@underprize.think.com>
  10. Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager))
  11. Distribution: usa
  12. Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
  13. Lines: 22
  14.  
  15. rlk@underprize.think.com (Robert Krawitz) writes:
  16.  
  17. [...]
  18. >Well, to be perfectly fair I find it hard to blame the Scouts for
  19. >accepting the money, as long as they're being up front about what their
  20. >policies are.
  21. [...]
  22.  
  23. I question how up front they have been. When Bank of America asked
  24. them point blank if they excluded gay boys, their reply was apparently
  25. so vague that B of A thought the answer was no.
  26.  
  27. In most communities it seems that UW seems to think that the BSA
  28. doesn't exclude athiest and gay boys. Given the unpopularity of
  29. athiests and gays, the popularity of the BSA, the overlap between UW
  30. boards and BSA councils, and incidents of BSA groups promoting
  31. boycotts against those who stop funding it, BSA/UW's misunderstandings
  32. are very convenient.
  33.  
  34. - Carl
  35. --
  36. Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  37.