Former NOW President Is YWCA's New CEO

CNSNews.com ^ | 4/30/03 | Randy Hall

[kattracks]

(CNSNews.com) - Patricia Ireland, the woman who presided over the National Organization for Women (NOW) for a decade and whose "major contributions included organizing NOW activists to defend women's access to abortion," has been chosen as the new chief executive officer of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).

The appointment, confirmed by CNSNews.com, immediately drew criticism from cultural conservatives. Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, called the Ireland appointment "disgusting," pointing to reports that Ireland had carried on a homosexual relationship in Washington, D.C., while remaining married to her husband, who was living in Florida.

"Here's a woman who is a bisexual heading up a young women's organization," Lafferty said. "This organization (YWCA) was started by a religious revival, this organization was started by Godly women, and the original intent has been totally perverted," she added.

The YWCA's origins in the United States can be traced all the way back to 1858, according to the organization's website, but any original religious motivation has been downplayed.

It's not until the sixth paragraph of a YWCA web page called "The Early Years" that the organization acknowledges that Bible study was one of the group's original goals.

Ireland was president of NOW from 1991 until 2001. More to Come

[The_Victor]

The YWA just doesn't have the same ring to it, but I don't see that the organization has much choice.

[b4its2late]

OH BOY. WE'LL BE IN FOR SOME RIDE...................

[optik_b]

She certainly will draw a lot of controversy to this old simple organization. The last time I hear YMCA in the headlines it was because John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo were using YMCAs to clean up before they went out to murder someone in their car.

[Diago]

This would be almost funny IF I did not have kids who have to grow up in this country.

[Sender]

Unbelievable. Well maybe there's not much Christian about YWCA.

[b4its2late]

Can't wait to hear recycled "Y" jokes.......

[SwinneySwitch]

A Lot More to Come!

[JOE6PAK]

Hope they keep that NAG Ireland out of the locker rooms.

[SwinneySwitch]

A LOT More to Come!

[JOE6PAK]

Hope they keep that NAG Ireland out of the locker rooms.

[onyx]

Going the homosexual way of the YMCA. A pity and an outrage.

[onyx]

Going the homosexual way of the YMCA. A pity and an outrage.

[Bosco]

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth." - Paul's 2nd letter to Timothy. Chpt 3, vs 1 - 7.

Looks like we have both components of the problem here - a) the YWCA "having a form of godliness but denying its power" and b) Patricia Ireland - "the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women"

Who said that the Bible isn't relevant today?

The YWCA/YMCA haven't been Christian in the orthodox ("right thinking" - look it up) sense of the word for years. Not a big surprise here.

[TheCrusader]

"And in later times there will big hairy women of hidious looks, and pencil necked men in pink aprons infiltrating Christian organizations and society, and they shall rule over men". (Hercules' 2nd Epistle to Sparticus). O.K., I made that up, but the Bible does predict this stuff ~ in Isiah 3:4 it says: "I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them". And "As for my people, their oppressors have stripped them, and women have ruled over them". (Isiah 3:12)

[Russell Scott]

My problem isn't with Ireland. My problem is where on God's green Earth are the Christians who eithier A.) Didn't run in opposition. B.) Allowed the organization to get this far off its course that they would even consider such a person.

Another sign of the times.

Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Mark 13:14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not

[mlmr]

Because the YWCA has nothing to do with Christianity any more and is run by the lesbo-mafia.

[kattracks]

Former NOW President Is YWCA's New CEO
By David Thibault
CNSNews.com Managing Editor
April 30, 2003

(CNSNews.com) - Patricia Ireland, the woman who presided over the National Organization for Women (NOW) for a decade and whose "major contributions included organizing NOW activists to defend women's access to abortion," was chosen Wednesday as the new chief executive officer of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).

The appointment, confirmed by CNSNews.com, immediately drew criticism from cultural conservatives.

Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, called the Ireland appointment "disgusting," pointing to reports that Ireland had carried on a homosexual relationship in Washington, D.C., while remaining married to her husband, who was living in Florida.

"Here's a woman who is a bisexual heading up a young women's organization," Lafferty said. "This organization (YWCA) was started by a religious revival, this organization was started by Godly women, and the original intent has been totally perverted," she added.

Audrey Peeples, chairwoman of the YWCA's National Coordinating Board, rejected the idea that the organization had roots in religious revivalism.

"We were never a religious revivalist. We were always about self-sufficiency for women. The YWCA, when it was first incorporated, provided job training and housing for women when they were coming into the large urban areas," Peeples said, adding that the organization's current mission is to provide economic empowerment for women and fight racism.

However, the YWCA's own Internet site, which Peeples admitted she had not seen, includes a reference to a 1850s "religious revival...sweeping through the Northeast."

When informed about the section of the website describing the YWCA's history, Peeples, who has been affiliated with the organization for 14 years, conceded that she "needed to go look at the website."

Peeples also insisted that the YWCA is now and always has been "a pro-choice organization."

As for the selection of Ireland to direct YWCA operations, Peeples said there was no concern on the board that Ireland might be a controversial figure.

"In any employment interview, you can't ask personal questions or pry into the private lives of people. And what we were more concerned about is that she has wonderful connections in Washington, she has been an advocate for women's rights and out there on women's issues and discrimination for a very long time," Peeples said.

However, as a result of Ireland's appointment, Lafferty said she is "sure the (YWCA) founders are just turning over in their graves."

She compared Ireland's new role at the YWCA to "letting the fox guard the henhouse - having a bisexual lesbian, whatever she is, be the president of this organization."

"We know that the YWCA is becoming more and more liberal," Lafferty said, "and now, they have totally gone off the deep end."

The 57-year-old Ireland was president of NOW from 1991 until 2001. Her new employer, the YWCA, has more than 300 chapters in the United States.

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