Posted on 12/15/2021 7:26:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Union Gospel Mission gets my annual donations. They are a national organization but you can contribute locally. I do that. They do fabulous work giving housing and food to drunks and addicts in the community. One of my neighbors actually went there for help many years ago and they saved his life, put him on the right path.
I donated my old car to them, and one of my neighbors just bought a used car from their auto dealership, probably the best in our city. I don’t know about right or left wings, but I consider them angels in the community.
Check out UGM.
Every year as Christmas approaches, my wife and I each have a sum of money we take out of our savings, and we can each donate to what we want. I have always given half to various veteran organizations, and half to the Salvation Army.
I did that both on the basis of a positive story and a negative story.
THE POSITIVE: My Brother-in-Law as a young batchelor came home some fifty years ago to his apartment late on Christmas Eve to find the building surrounded by firefighters and his apartment, with all of his prized jazz vinyl collection destroyed, not to mention every single thing he owned. He was completely destitute on Christmas Eve, with only the clothes on his back. And it was the Salvation Army that gave him shelter, food, money, and clothes.
THE NEGATIVE: Then, around 30 years ago, I was working with a very elderly patient who had been in the Army in WWI and was wounded in action in France. He told me had spent nearly a year in the hospital near the front before he was well enough to travel, the Red Cross was there, but they made the wounded soldiers pay for everything...especially cigarettes. At the mention of the Red Cross, he had that expression of someone so angry that they looked as if they were going to spit on the ground. After all those years, he still held a grudge against the Red Cross because they made him pay for his cigarettes. Then, he spoke in glowing tones about The Salvation Army. They had not made them pay, they gave them the cigarettes for free.
Because of both of those stories told to me by people directly helped by the Salvation Army, my wife and I gave to them every year during the Christmas Season, and we both gave money to the Kettles every time we passed one, even if it was just a dollar.
That is why I feel sadness, and grief. I really do. I hate feeling this way towards them. But I am not going to be a party to giving money to an organization that fosters racially based practices that are at the heart of Critical Race Theory which they inflict on employees.
And their pathetic response to this was the equivalent to the typical liberal non-apology such as “I am sorry you feel anger” rather than “I am sorry I did this racist thing”.
Well said and that’s how I look at it.
The next time I see one, I’ll tell the kettle tender to tell his boss that I’m not a racist and resent that implication and they should be ashamed of themselves for basically taking needed assistance away from the needy.
Well, that’s true to SOME Extent. They should ALL hurt due to their Leadership though, don’t you think?
I looked them up on Charity Navigator and got:
“We don’t evaluate The Salvation Army.
Why not?
Many religious organizations are exempt under Internal Revenue Code from filing the Form 990. As a result, we lack sufficient data to evaluate their financial health. Click here to view the basic information on file with the IRS for The Salvation Army’s headquarters.”
So, I sure didn’t feel good about THAT!
And when you click on the link to get data from the IRS, you get this:
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/133485289
I mean, you do NOT get this run-around for, say, Samaritan’s Purse, et al.
Something stinks.
Great post.
The SA needs to be told over and over that this policy is hurting the needy and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Yes, it’s very sad.
I figured there was some sort of homosexual promotion going on with SA. The SA store staff seems to be infiltrated.
The Evil ones have infiltrated almost everything, especially the good ones.
“I should point out that the Salvation Army removed its smear of America and white Americans, but only under the excuse that it was all a misunderstanding.”
Your spouse belittles you in front of people and says they have never had any respect for you. When you out their things on the porch, they take it back and say they didn’t mean it.
That make it all better?
I don’t understand why. Are the organization run buy women or fags?
I found my answer. Col. Janet Munn, Salvation Army minister and co-director of the organization’s International Social Justice Commission …
Dumb bitch. Burn in hell.
They went bad back in 2017 when they went political and joined the mob pulling out of a big charity event held at Mar a Largo because...TRUMP!!!
Just like many other servicemen, I’d been a supporter of the SA since my bit in the Navy back in the early 60s. Touted them over the Red Cross to many FReepers on many occasions here. But all that ended for me in 17. Not only did they get political, they picked the wrong side. This last revelation just shows the thinking of those running this hot mess. Not very Christian to my way of thinking and not worth my time or money.
They have painted themselves into a corner that is going to be painful to get out of. To admit the training document was wrong is to admit that they are racists. Either way they go they’re going to anger a segment of the population, and the other side tends to get violent when they don’t get their way.
It would be interesting to know what the result of their “appropriate review” is. It has been a week or two and it took me less than an hour to review the document.
Sigh. The problem for them is: They have lost people like me, probably forever.
The only way...the ONLY way I think they could ever win me back, is by completly going in the opposite direction and vocally and unequivocally distancing themselves from those asinine stances on race and equality.
But they will never do that. Never. What they are going to do is stop talking about it. Every time it comes up, they will change the subject. They will “unperson” the subject.
Which won’t be enough for people like me. What a pity.
Watched a Hallmark Christmas movie today and they had two gay guys hug and kiss. Always watched Hallmark stations due to the wholesome and more Christian themes. They are losing me for caving to the lgbtxyz faction when they really don’t have to. Christian organizations are going woke and it’s getting bad. Same with Salvation Army. Unforced errors never end well.
I used to always put some money in the bucket. But I haven’t seen them this year at all.
In past years, they were always outside of all the local grocery stores.
There are a relatively small number of pervert billionaires trying to cram their perversions down our throats.
It is getting kinda obvious.
I agree and feel the same.
This is a good example of how Evil ruins so much that is good and decent.
I felt bad walking by the SA bell ringer in front of the grocery store this afternoon, but I did it. Never used to.
“I found my answer. Col. Janet Munn, Salvation Army minister and co-director of the organization’s International Social Justice Commission” …
I had no idea that the SA had gone that far left. Totally disgusting.
After seeing your post I now have little doubt that they concentrate their donations toward leftist causes rather than the truly needy.
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