No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. -  Matthew 6:24

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For the past several years, several United Way chapters have been involved in harassment of the Boy Scouts of America by cutting off their funding. Several other chapters are currently giving consideration to doing the same.  The reason for this is the Boy Scout's stance on not allowing homosexuals into the organization as scout leaders or scouts.  For an up-to-date list of which United Way chapters have done this, see this link:

http://www.defendscouting.com/unitedway.html
http://www.saveourscouts.com/hall.html

We are encouraging Christians to end all of their United Way contributions until 100% of these attacks by the UW stop, and those that have already occurred are fully reversed.  We are also encouraging you to ask the United Way for a refund of anything you contributed during 2001, including to their September 11 Fund.  As an alternative, consider giving the money to:

• Some of the many Christian Organizations that are standing firm against the rising tide of apostasy in our society today. 
• Directly to organizations in your area that you have an interest in supporting.
• Your local Boy Scout Council.
• If you asked the UW for a refund of money you gave to the September 11 fund, or want to help the 9/11 victims with a new donation, consider giving the money to the Red Cross instead.  We saw on a recent Fox TV news program that victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack are not getting 100% of the UW 9/11 donations. In fact, examples were given of several liberal left-wing organizations receiving some of the money instead of the victim's families (including a legal aid organization that is offering to defend some of the alleged terrorists).  The Red Cross recently pledged that 100% of the donations they receive to their Liberty Fund will go to the victims and their families.

Many people contribute to United Way because of the convenience of the automatic payroll deduction that many employers offer for contributions.  Contributing to organizations other than United Way is just as easy. Contact your bank and see if they offer automatic bill pay (most do).  If so, you can use their bill pay system to automatically schedule payments to be sent to your favorite charity.  When you contact the UW to end your donations, or ask for a refund, they may tell you that you have the option of designating that all of the money go to the organization of your choice, including the Boy Scouts.  This is not as good of a solution as bypassing UW altogether for a few reasons.

1. If for instance you specify that the Boy Scouts get the money, that doesn't mean the Scouts will get any more than if you hadn't made the specification.  The UW can simply reduce what they would have given to the Scouts from their general fund by the same amount.
2. You need to ask yourself whether or not you really want to give any money to an organization that has a past track record of attacking a good cause like the Boy Scouts?  The more money they have, the more they can use it as clout against the Boy Scouts.  Give it directly to the Scouts (or at least a portion of it) and you save the Scouts the kind of problems that they've been experiencing with these local UW chapters.
3. The trend seems to be that more of the local UW chapters are giving consideration to eliminating funding for the scouts.  If we don't send a strong message to UW that this will not be tolerated, look for this trend to continue. 
4. We can make an example of the United Way.  Other charity organizations or even private businesses that are thinking about pulling funding for this reason may think twice before doing it. 

To contact United Way to express your concerns click here.