Posted on 07/10/2013 11:45:09 AM PDT by topher
A group of pro-life students from around the nation who’ve gathered in Austin, Texas this week for an abortion protest at the state capitol has been banned from a local YMCA after pro-choice activists complained about the students using the facility’s showers.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) had made arrangements with the Town Lake Branch of the Austin YMCA to use their showers during their week-long pro-life protest, the group’s spokesperson Alexa Coombs told Fox News. About 56 members of the group are being housed in local churches that don’t have showers. The Washington, D.C.-based pro-life organization had received permission to use the Y’s facilities between 9 and 10 p.m. each night.
“We had an agreement and that was the arrangement for the whole week,” Coombs said.
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they now have a statement on their website which makes the situation even worse!!!
http://www.austinymca.org/news/statement-regarding-shower-usage-townlake-ymca
“If any person or group enters our facilities and creates an atmosphere that is disruptive, we have an obligation to our members and program participants to ask that person or group to leave or to refuse them access.”
So I went on the contact link http://www.austinymca.org/contact and sent the following message:
“You said that the Students for Life “create[d ] an atmosphere that is disruptive”. That is a very serious allegation. Can you please specify what disruptive acts (vandalism perhaps?) they committed in your facility? If they did not commit any disruptive acts, can you please clarify your statement? Perhaps its of no matter to you, but some people would be concerned that impugning the reputation and character of another person based on a false accusation is a violation of the 9th commandment.”
When you call or email don’t forget to ask them to support their egregios allegation against the students.
I just saw this story broadcast on the Austin news....
We live 55 miles west of Austin & I swear, we live way too close to that cesspool.
How very Christian of them.
Its clear that people having opinions that differ from liberals is disruptive.
There are still a few groups for which it is OK to refuse service.
A company can’t refuse to sell a gay couple a cake, but singers can refuse to play for the BSA jamboree, and the YMCA can refuse to allow “those people” to use the showers.
That’s what we were striving to do in accommodating the Students for Life group who were in need of a place to shower.Reading between the lines, the baby-killers caused trouble for the Y, so the Y kicked out the pro-life people.Unfortunately, in this instance, it caused the political debate to come into the Y.
If any person or group enters our facilities and creates an atmosphere that is disruptive, we have an obligation to our members and program participants to ask that person or group to leave or to refuse them access.
There are appropriate places in which to conduct a political debate, and that place is down the street at the State Capitol, not at our YMCA.
I guess if you stood by the door, and then protested anybody who entered, the Y would kick everybody out.
Regardless of what you may have heard, it’s not fun to stay there.
Placemark.
Pro-lifers wanted to open their homes, but 56 is a long line to wait in for a shower.
Any updates on this?
Maybe various pro-life groups can contact [real] Christian/Catholic pastors in the Austin that they might help these students out...
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