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GRAND RAPIDS, MI. -- Save Our Scouts (SOS), a Utah-based national organization formed in response to discrimination against the Boy Scouts of America by a tiny fringe element of United Way chapters nationally, Tuesday donated $1,000 to the Gerald R. Ford Council (BSA) of Grand Rapids to compensate for the council's loss of funding by the Allegan County United Way.
(See photo of check-signing)
The Allegan county chapter is the only United Way affiliate in Michigan -- and one of roughly one percent of United Way chapters nationwide -- to cut funding to local Scout troops because the Boy Scouts refuse to allow adult males who openly engage in homosexual behavior to serve as troop leaders.
Gavin Grooms, national director of Save Our Scouts, said on the organization's Web site that "people who are attracted to each other should not be sleeping and camping together. Being 'morally straight' is no premarital sex, no actions that would be inappropriate for a young man and gentleman. And sleeping in tents with people who are attracted to each other is inappropriate."
The Gerald R. Ford Scout council had already received last October a $4,000 check from the American Family Association of Michigan -- AFAMichigan.org -- that more than made up for the $3,500 lost from the Allegan County United Way. The donation was made possible by AFA-Michigan donor Antonio Robinson, a Detroit area businessman. [Article]
"As evidenced by this latest contribution, Americans continue to stand in support of the Boy Scouts' commitment to protect our young men from exposure to individuals who engage in deadly, life-threatening homosexual behavior," said AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn. "Once again, we call on Allegan County United Way officials to stop making the homosexual agenda a higher priority than the needs of their community, and to drop their deplorable policy of discrimination and retribution against an organization Americans have cherished for nearly a century."
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