One morally prosaic move and these folks take their petty cash and go home. Enter the Boy Scouts of America. The BSA may have won its U.S. Supreme Court battle to exclude gay troop leaders but may well lose the moral war. Charity does indeed seek its own, in this case, its own agenda. Several United Way organizations have also banished the Scouts.
Donees sign it or lose funds.
Even the federal government seeks to withhold the charity of the people. Patrick Kennedy and Lynn Woolsey, with 9 other members of the House, voted to strip the Scouts of their federal charter. Even Barney Frank declined to vote rather than sanction such totalitarianism. During the first great wave of billionaires, Andrew Carnegie gave, in addition to funding for 2,811 libraries, Carnegie Hall and Carnegie-Mellon, organs to 7,689 churches around the country. Mr. Carnegie was a free spirit who did not agree with the philosophies of these churches, but they were his beneficiaries, not his minions.