Posted on 10/28/2005 7:29:37 AM PDT by Mad Dawg
The Red Cross forbids announcing or posting announcements about rides to religious services in the community!
Excuse the Vanity post, please.
I just got back from spending a week at a Red Cross shelter in Monroe, Louisiana. The first thing to say is that, while it certainly isnt perfect, what the Red Cross did there was quite impressive. It was a huge operation and at its peak it provided shelter, food, clothing, medical care, and many other services to a resident population of over 2,900. When I got there the resident count was under 400 and when I left it was under 100 as people moved out to other long-term accommodations.
I worked Safety and Security a rent-a-cop without a badge or a gun. From my position near the front resident and guest entrance two Sundays ago I observed the following more than once: Someone comes in and asks for an announcement to be made over the public address system that a bus is waiting to pick up passengers for such-and-such a church. The guy at the information desk apologizes and says that new National Red Cross policy prohibits announcements about any religious services.
I also observed that several signs with information about service times at various churches were no longer posted. Further, though I had been told that in previous weeks a Roman Catholic Priest had come to the shelter to celebrate a mass in one of the smaller rooms of the huge 7.5 acre building, the Sunday I was there no priest came.
I asked the higher-ups about the policy and was told hold onto your hats for this dazzling display of nonsense that the Red Cross couldnt allow advertising any particular religious services because then it would have to allow advertising for all religious services.
My suggestion that the organization change its name to The Red Indeterminate Shape of No Particular Meaning was not well received.
The Red Cross is following the United Way's leadership in driving everyone away.
We had hurricane evacuees here. A local Christian outreach group was helping to organize and distribute donations. They wore T-shirts bearing the name of the group with "Christian" in the name. A Red Cross worker told them they had to put on different T-shirts, that the word "Christian" might be offensive. They refused and were allowed to continue helping.
Irony. It's so deliciously ironic.
Screw the Red Cross. They used millions in 9/11 donations to update their network. They will not get my money again.
Christians 1: RC 0.
That's exactly why I donated to the Salvation Army after Katrina when I could help it. There was stuff through work that went to the Red Cross, but any time I call on my own, it will be to the Salvation Army for now. Just hearing too many stories about the Red Cross lately.
Do NOT give to the hate-mongers at the Red Cross. Give to the Salvation Army, a non-political group that takes just 13% of donations for operating costs. The Red Cross and United Way (ready for this?) keep up to 85% of donations for operating costs. Oh. The United Way also gives to The Brady Bunch for gun confiscation.
Isn't leftism grand...
It's totally wrong ... and you can quote this atheist.
The Red Cross is my charity of last resort. If there is absolutely no other way of giving to a cause I support than giving it to the Red Cross, I will give them a look. Otherwise, there are a lot of other outfits out there that can use my money.
I think people should help out through their local church. At least there is some accountability there. Well, hopefully.
Is there some reason why it's a red "cross?" Is there some terrible history in their background? Did they have their origin in something, er, Christian?
And just what problems did they foresee arising if they did allow advertising for all religious services?
We had a large group of refugês at the fairground for a while with the RC in charge. They had said that they wanted only money, no goods at all. There was a number of mothers with infants that NEEDED formula. My wife took a car load of formula to the fairground and was indignantly refused permission to give it to the mommies. She and a preacher passed the boxes over the fence. I never heard whether the RC tried then to confiscate the contraband.
RC demanded there be NO goods donations because the organizaion can't get its cut from canned goods and clothes and the like.
The Red Cross is no charity. They are in business to provide plush sinecures for bureaucrats and for empirebuilding.
It's sad that group has so thouroghly lost their way as far as where they came from and what their purpose is. I keep hearing stories of them taking credit for stuff churches were doing. Micromanaging how people were recieving help, such that people were getting less help that they could and should have been because heaven forbid someone recieve unsanctioned help. Then there were stories of them inflicting gay rights stuff on their employees.
How did they get to that point? Bad leadership or involvement with our government along the way?
I can see prohibiting actual services on site.
I may be way off base (the memory isn't what it used to be), but didn't the RC allow Scientologists to provide therapeutic back rubs at some sites? Wouldn't that be as religious to a Scientologist as a prayer service would be to a Christian?
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