Dear Disney, Lockheed Martin, Caterpiller, Major League Soccer, Merck, UPS, Intel and others who have recently pulled or discouraged their funding for the Boy Scouts of America:
I'm extremely saddened in your decision to pull funding from the Boy Scouts of America. This organization teaches young men to become better prepared for what the world will throw at them. Teaches them how to save lives and to be better members of their communities.
Why would you remove funding from that type of an organization, when very few others can even come close to the way that the BSA helps young men? We take an oath every week to "Do our best, to do our duty to God and our Country. To obey the Scout Law! To help other people at all times". (Scout Oath)
We teach each scout to be "Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent". (Scout Law). We do not teach hatred, discrimination, bullying or other demeaning practices. In fact we teach how to prevent these things from happening! We teach our young men how to become leaders in their respective religious communities, area communities and nations. Our boy's safety is also our #1 priority over anything else.
Yet, we are constantly being attacked for one policy when the boys and their leaders should be getting praised for those things the boys learn each and every week we hold scouts. I am not aware of any other organization that takes that amount of time to teach young men those things, or is willing to teach those same principles because of fear they will not fit in with the world, or because it is deemed unnecessary in the "modern" world.
It has been made apparent that many companies and individuals, wish to discourage those things which the BSA teaches our young men by removing funding, to make us more "appealing to the world", by being forced to accept the "things" which the world deems as "important". So as not to damage those companies "reputations" by being in cahoots with that "group".
We save many lives, we help others, we perform service, we become exemplary citizens, we are some of the hardest workers and are WILLING AND ABLE to always "BE PREPARED" (Scout Motto) to take on any challenges asked of us or thrown in our path.
Please reinstate your funding! Our boys need these things to help improve the nation. Do not deny the youth those things! Show you care about the Boy Scouts of America and help them become the future leaders which we may desperately need. Show these boys that others are willing to stand by them and live the same OATH and LAW that they promise to live by every week.
I post this in hope that MANY people all over the world will see this, and you will see what kind of support the Boy Scouts internationally receive from every parent and person who has been helped!
If you have a story of how Boy Scouting has helped you or others. Please post it to here. Show your support, please share too! This is not the time to stand idly by!
- Signed Nick Dennis
Scout Leader - Eagle Scout - Proud Supporter and Donor to Boy Scouts of America.
