 | I think that you are taking this BSA thing too far, The scouts do more
good than bad. Just because they don't let s into their groups. you
want to have a "boycott". a little extreme.. and Fred Meyers hands are
tied. they let some groups sell some cookies, good for them, but to
punish a store for just doing the right thing, that's not right. hey if
your thats fine but don't try to instill your life style on the
rest of us. live and let live
Praesepe wrote:
> "Robert Hansen" wrote in message
news:...
> > "Praesepe" wrote in message
> > news:5c24735b.0210121448.49ea58e3@posting.google.com...
> > > I think everyone should boycott Kroger Stores
(http://www.kroger.com/)
> > > as long as they have the Boy Scouts of America posted outside of
their
> > > Fred Meyers stores, soliciting funds. As a company which supports
> > > diversity in the workplace, and serves a diverse group of people
in
> > > the neighborhoods where they are located, I cannot understand why
they
> > > feel the need to so publicly support an anti- organization
such as
> > > the BSA.
> >
> >
> > Where exactly did this happen? I was a devoted Freddies' shopper
during all
> > my Oregon years, and Fred Meyer frequently went to court to keep
various
> > solicitors (political or otherwise) *away* from their front doors.
> >
> > -rah
>
> The Fred Meyers on Glisan in Portland is the one I shop at, and the
> Boy Scouts will continue soliciting at Fred Meyers' stores over the
> next two weekends. I spoke to the Regional manager who told me that
> they have attempted in the past to deny the BSA, but are then accused
> of being discriminatory by them since Fred Meyers allows the Girl
> Scouts to sell their cookies at the stores.
>
> Maybe this will just be a boycott of one person---me---but I won't go
> into one of their stores (or any Kroger Company stores for that
> matter) until the BSA is no longer raising funds at Fred Meyers. I
was
> a cub scout myself, and there are a lot of things that the BSA does
> for boys, especially ones without fathers like myself, but since I am
> a man I'm not considered a person of virtue, and therefore not
> worthy to lead a scout troop.
>
> Certainly these are little boys (Cub Scouts), and they probably are
> largely unaware of this controversy, but as long as the BSA has their
> discriminatory policies, then they'll be raising boys into young men
> with the mind that Lesbians and Gay Men are not virtuous members of
> our society, and it doesn't take much more than that to lead to more
> discrimination---and even violence---against us.
>
> The following link on their web site is accessible to the boys of
> their organization, and in it, the BSA describes their belief that we
> are not virtuous people, even placing Gay Men in the same order as
> pedophiles: "The BSA does not equate homouality and pedophilia,
but
> neither avowed homouals nor pedophiles are appropriate role models
> for Scouting youth"
>
> http://www.scouting.org/media/values/fact.html
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