Boy Scouts Lose Disney Dollars Due to Anti-Gay Policy
Although the Boy Scouts voted last year to allow gay youths to join its ranks, the group is facing a fallout over their ban on gay adult members and volunteers. The Walt Disney Company. one of the BSA’s largest donors has given notice that it plans to pull all funding starting next year.
Disney funds the VoluntEARS program, which allows employees to do volunteer work in exchange for cash donations to the charities of their choice. Employees taking part in the VoluntEARS program will no longer be able to submit the funds to the Boy Scouts, the organization said.
According to Disney’s charitable giving guidelines, groups become ineligible to receive Disney funding if they “discriminate in the provision of services unlawfully or in a manner inconsistent with Disney’s policies on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, marital status, mental or physical ability, or sexual orientation.”
Scouts for Equality says Disney joins Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar, Major League Soccer, Merck, Intel and UPS as companies who have ended partnerships with the Scouts because of its policy. Fidas said Alcoa and AT&T are also on that list.
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