Greater NY Council didn't get funds from "God Bless America" last year

[Merlyn_LeRoy 72]

The Greater New York Councils of Boy Scouts of America lost a major longtime financial backer because of the organization’s discriminatory, anti-gay policies. The God Bless America fund, which makes royalties from the song, withheld funding in December, according to newly released documents. The fund, which makes around $100,000 to $200,000 a year is to be split between NYC Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of Greater New York. The fund, though, couldn’t get an answer as to whether the New York–area councils were discriminating.

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http://www.passportmagazine.com/blog...r-sponsor.html

[Scouter99 265]

Let's all open a new thread every time we run across an article on this issue.

[Merlyn_LeRoy 72]

That's what different topics are for, yes. We've only been piling into a few threads recently because of software glitches, but normally every new topic gets a new thread.