Tell YWCA: Patricia Ireland is a Bad Choice to Lead Girls

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[AgThorn]

Dear Conservative Friend:

The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) has made the horrible choice of Patricia Ireland as the next head of this girl's organization. A better leader must be chosen -- or the "C" may as well be changed from Christian to stand for "cross dressing." Please go to Conservative- Petitions.com and read what is at stake. Here's the address: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions/php?id=191

Ireland is likely to finalize the YWCA's evolution into a radical feminist and pro-homosexual organization that will promote abortion on demand, cross-dressing, lesbianism and other sexually deviant behaviors. She is the former leader of the National Organization for Women (NOW), a radical feminist group that is pro-abortion and pro-homosexual. An admitted bisexual who has had a husband and a female homosexual "partner," Ireland also is listed as a member of the Board of Directors of GenderPac, a transgender organization that promotes sex change operations and cross-dressing for teenagers!

Patricia Ireland absolutely is not a proper role model for our nation's girls. Your help is needed! Millions of Americans should contact the YWCA and demand Ireland be rejected! Sign a petition to Audrey Peeples, chairwoman of the YWCA National Coordinating Board that hired Ireland, asking for a better choice to protect girls from the radical bisexual, cross-dressing, and pro-abortion agenda.

If the YWCA refuses to remove her, then parents should remove their daughters from any involvement in this organization. Please act now so the YWCA may correct this mistake before further damage is done. Then, after signing, email everyone you know to help generate the needed outcry from America's majority. Here again is where to act: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions/php?id=191

Andrea Lafferty Executive Director Traditional Values Coalition

P.S. The result of inaction is alarming! There is no doubt, based on her track record, that Ireland will lead this girls' organization astray. Isn't it worth a couple of minutes to get better leadership for the YWCA? Please encourage people to take their stand at: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions/php?id=191

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[AgThorn]

Don't confuse the YWCA with the YMCA ... as different as the girl scouts and the boy scouts, and apparently showing it more and more ... although both of them need to remember the "C" in their acronym more than they do.

[AgThorn]

Let's try those links one more time:

Here again is where to act:
http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions/php?id=191

Andrea Lafferty Executive Director Traditional Values Coalition

P.S. The result of inaction is alarming! There is no doubt, based on her track record, that Ireland will lead this girls' organization astray. Isn't it worth a couple of minutes to get better leadership for the YWCA? Please encourage people to take their stand at:
http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions/php?id=191

[AgThorn]

YWCA Hires Radical Feminist Bisexual To Head Organization

Friday, May 02 @ 18:40:44 CDT


Summary: The Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) has hired former National Organization for Women (NOW) leader Patricia Ireland to head this girl’s group. Ireland is an admitted bisexual, pro-homosexual, and pro-abortion.

A Note From TVC’s Executive Director Andrea Lafferty
The Young Women’s Christian Association has hired a bisexual to head up this girl’s organization. Patricia Ireland becomes the new head of the YWCA on May 15th. Ireland is the former head of the National Organization of Women (NOW), a radical leftist, pro-abortion and pro-homosexual group. Ireland is also an admitted bisexual. In her biography, What Women Want, she writes: “I have a husband, and he is very important in my life. I also have a companion, and she is very important in my life, too.”

Parents who entrust their girls to the YWCA should think twice about exposing them to what has become a morally corrupt organization.

TVC issued a press release on April 29th. Our headline says it plainly: “New Head Of YWCA Is ‘None Of The Above.’” In it, I noted: “Naming Patricia Ireland to head the YWCA means that someone at the YWCA has a strange sense of humor. Christianity has now been demoted to a sort of nostaligic and outdated way of thinking at the YWCA. Young Christian women are as likely to learn about good character by spending a weekend with a motorcycle gang as they are spending it at Patricia Ireland’s Y.”

Later in the day, I was interviewed by Cybercast News Service on this outrageous decision by YWCA officials. I told CNS reporter David Thibault: “We know that the YWCA is becoming more and more liberal and now they have totally gone off the deep end.”

To read our press release on Patricia Ireland the YWCA, click here

To read the CNS story, click here: Former NOW President is YWCA's New CEO

For more details on Ireland’s radical sexual and political agenda, click here: AN INTERVIEW WITH PATRICIA IRELAND. Remember: This is the woman who will be setting policy for one of the largest girls groups in America.

Please contact the YWCA and tell them what you think about their decision. Contact information is available here: YWCA: Contact Us

[upchuck]

Audrey Peeples, chairwoman of the YWCA National Coordinating Board that hired Ireland

I don't understand why a group with "Christian" in their name would give Patty the Lez the time of day, much less hire her. Is Peeples a carpet muncher also?

[TheWillardHotel]

I admire your effort and your fight. I salute you.

My observation is the YWCA 'is' Patricia Ireland.
The organization is doomed. Nothing will fix it.
It needs to die.

Lets build something new. This time lets permanently
bar the sodomites, leftists, and malcontents.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I predict that the membership is going to change very soon. I sure won't want to swim in their pools next year.

[Mister Baredog]

The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) has made the horrible choice of Patricia Ireland as the next head of this girl's organization.

Why do you think they picked her in the first place? The YWCA is a liberal, pro-lesbian org. That's why.

[Mister Baredog]

She was on some TV show this week where she wouldn't even admit to being a Christian! LOL!!!!!!

[MattGarrett]

Man. This is like putting the RAT in charge of the Cheese! This must not stand.

[Nephi]

She was on O'Reilly Factor. Bill was incredulous that she wouldn't acknowledge Jesus Christ.

If O'Reilly didn't bring this out, who would?

[thulldud]

I sure won't want to swim in their pools next year.

Aww, be a sport. They use LOTS of chlorine. They could bottle that stuff and call it Clorox.

Seriously, tho, this organization has been Christian in name only for ages. My wife was going there to work out with the arthritis classes (they have calisthenic sessions in the pool because the water lessens the strain of body weight on sore joints!) over ten years ago, and at that time, they had just passed a resolution eliminating all reference to Jesus from the statement of mission. The new mission was, iirc, to eliminate all forms of "racism". Bully for them. Shortly after that, Mrs. T quit going to those classes, mainly because that was the time they increased the chlorine level to the point of corroding metal fillings and exposed statuary.

If anybody wants to talk about environmental hazards, just point out the mental and spiritual atmosphere in the YWCA. Now, that's a hazard.

[thulldud]

Hey, "the cheese stands alone!" Don't you remember?

[WOSG]

YWCA: A Pro-choice Organization ...


http://www.ywca.org/html/B2a7.asp
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CEO Prema Mathai-Davis' statement on reproductive choice

October 27, 1998

Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian. The YWCA is outraged by his murder. We condemn this violent act and stand firm in our belief that every woman has the right to choose among all legal options available for her reproductive health, based on her own religious and ethical values.

The YWCA's position evolves from our commitment to the empowerment of women and respect for the diversity of our members.

[WOSG]

YWCA is a Liberal organizatio that support the Liberal position and the Feminist Clinton Edu dept on Title IX ...


http://www.ywca.org/html/B2.asp


" The YWCA supports Title IX in its present form and urges enforcement. We see the current proposals as attempts to weaken the law and seriously erode the progress toward equity with men in women's and girl's sports as well as in education in general. "


They have nothing do do with Christianity any more. This is a a secular feminist interest group, totally coopted by political activists, diverting money intended for more societally useful charitable donations.

"Our mission is to empower women and girls and to eliminate racism. "

Read: Our mission is to advance a feminist and multi-cultural agenda. ...

http://www.ywca.org/html/B8d.asp

[CIBvet]

Signed and forwarded to friends.

How much more decadent will G_d allow America to become?

[dark_lord]

How much more decadent will G_d allow America to become?

He gave us free will, turned the shop over to us, and is holding us accountable. So, how much more decadent will America be permitted to get? Beats me. Probably a lot more if we let it. Fortunately, I think the tide is finally turning.

[WaterDragon]

The YW in my city long ago became ultra-liberal, and lost my family's patronage. As they leaned left, their services declined in quality. Any questioning of their leaning Left was met with utter arrogance. Since I live in a mostly Democratic city, they were unconcerned about losing my business.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

It's time to petition the YWCA to remove the "C" from their name and acronym.

Maybe they could rename it to something like Young Women's Secular Association, or Young Women's Liberal Association, or the National Organization of Young Women.

[MHGinTN]

We condemn this violent act and stand firm in our belief that every woman has the right to choose among all legal options available for her reproductive health, based on her own religious and ethical values. TRANSLATION: We condemn this violent act and stand firm in our belief that every woman has the right to choose to committ a similar act as long as her victim is still in her womb, and call it a reproductive right, excluding the hint of any possibility that the victim has any rights whatsoever.

There is nothing Christian about the YWCA, but it does fit nicely into the World Council Of Churches curricula as an anti-christ servile organization under stealth naming.

[muir_redwoods]

I always thought the "C" in "YWCA" stood for Christian. It seems it must be another "C" word, one that I don't use and certainly not in print.

[Praxeas]

Gives new meaning to the phrase "Eat at the Y"...

[kcordell]

I predict that the membership is going to change very soon.

That's what happened to NOW under her direction.

NOW became a joke!

[boris]

Oh. I thought you meant Kathy Ireland. In her salad days, she could have led me anywhere....

[TheSpottedOwl]

Man. This is like putting the RAT in charge of the Cheese! This must not stand. The cheese stands alone! *snicker* (I don't know if you're old enough to remember that one, but it popped into my head when I read your reply ;-) )

[TheSpottedOwl]

Over chlorinated pools are hazardous to your health(insert Scott Peterson joke). It's too bad that another American institution bites the dust.

I had no idea that the YWCA went so far as to remove Jesus' name from everything. That's ok, because I predict they'll be shutting most of them down within 5 years.

[TheSpottedOwl]

NOW became a joke! Lol, NOW's always been a joke :) Heck I remember when it started; I was 10 and couldn't believe that women would burn their bras and not shave their underarms and legs. At 10, these are the things that make you a grownup, and you covet them. I've always kept that attitude about feminity. NOW will burn out long before Victoria's Secret ever will!

[WOSG]

There is nothing Christian about the YWCA, but it does fit nicely into the World Council Of Churches curricula as an anti-christ servile organization under stealth naming.

Dittos!

[Think free or die]

The loss of the old YWCA has saddened me greatly. I have wonderful childhood memories of our YWCA. It was in an elegant older building in the heart of our midwestern city. After my swimming lessons I'd sit on the great front steps, which were flanked by a pair of lions, which I also climbed and sat upon. The lobby was full of comfy inviting furniture, and the gym was an old-fashioned one made with wonderful old wood floors and a unique woody, clean smell. Classes ran the gamut from swimming to yoga to life skills (even bread baking). When my mom would treat me to lunch at the cafeteria I felt like a little princess.

Some years ago our old YWCA shut down its downtown location across from the park. I believe they deemed it physically inadequate or inefficient. I recently asked my mother what had happened to it since that time. Over the past 20 years or so, they moved to a much rougher section of town and re-directed their activities. The YWCA now houses a shelter for abused women and is very involved in social causes to the exclusion of most other activities. Mom dropped her membership years ago, since she felt unsafe in that part of town and no longer cared to support the "updated" goals of the YWCA. She also no longer knew anyone there. If this is the pattern in other cities, the YWCA as we once knew it is long gone and, in my opinion, unlikely to return.

It's very sad to lose an institution like the YWCA. As a girl growing up in America, the YWCA and Girl Scouts were a big part of my life and they both shaped my values. Both have been hi-jacked by leadership which is antithetical to most of what I support. If we had a daughter, I wouldn't want her involved with either organization. While the YMCA isn't as openly Christian as it once was, at least our local organization is still pretty consistent with its original values. The Boy Scouts are also holding steady. I'm happy for our sons that they have these organizations available to them. For girls in American, the story is sadly different.

[AgThorn]

Well stated, and an interesting experience and recall. I can only add that from my experience, the YMCA is most definitely open to both girls and boys. I had a great time with my daughter there in her early years and I know that the camping, pool, athletics, and more programs are all aimed at both genders. I am grateful for that. Too bad the boy scouts don't have a "girls" division for those young ladies who want to put God first. Maybe they should start one.

[Think free or die]

Interesting thought about the Boy Scouts having a girls' division. We just returned from a great Cub Scout trip. We encamped at the USS New Jersey. The boys loved seeing a battleship and climbing around the turrets of the 16-inch guns. Siblings probably could have come along, but I didn't see any sisters. I was one of few moms. During more typical events we see a lot of sisters and moms, so there is an influence, at least indirectly.

You're right about the YMCA inviting both genders. We've had a family membership to the Y for years. As a teenager, I joined the YMCA in my childhood home as well. When the YWCA shut down its long-time facility, the YMCA recruited a lot of new members who missed the YWCA pool!

[thulldud]

The YWCA in another city in my state hosted sessions in which lawyers met with disgruntled wives to instruct them in the finer points of divorce -- that is, how to set up your legal position in order to take it all. Such useful bits as accusations of child molestation, established with "recovered memory" testimony, etc. Broke up plenty of marriages, including some friends of mine.

And that was 15 years ago.

[WomanofStandard]

My Mom, a Christian woman, worked for the National Board YWCA all her life and collected retirement checks from them until 6 weeks ago when she passed away. She told me that the Y had strayed from their Christian roots years ago, but I'm glad she isn't alive to see this latest development. I mean, I'm glad they didn't make this fool hardy decision until after Mom received her heavenly reward.

[arasina]

I think it has been a looooong time since the YWCA has actually been a "Christian" organization. (Same with the YMCA.) They probably have kept the name only to get some sort of tax exempt status. Patricia Ireland, while seemingly a "nice" person, has a hard left agenda and will accomplish it with this position. How in the world did her appointment happen?

[linn37]

O'Reilly asked her and she could'nt answer it was weird as hell.

[Sonny M]

Patricia Ireland has stated, more then once, and very vocally, that she is not christian (I don't know if she is atheist, or what he beliefs are, I just that she has stated, over and over again, what she is not). Why would a group, that is considered a christian group, or at least has the word christian in the name, choose a non-christian leader? Thats like the catholic church choosing a muslim to be pope.

[cricket]

"Don't confuse the YWCA with the YMCA ..."

. . .think what is confusing is the the 'C' ie Christian in YWCA.

Surely there are well qualified Christian women out there who are more than willing and able to lead this 'Christian' principled organization;

. . . rather than Ireland who is able to admit to Christian roots - but not Christian Principles.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Isn't this fraud? Contributing to the corruption of minors? Most people aren't that politically aware and do absolutely think that the "C" in YWCA stands for Christian.

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YWCA is also one of the hundreds of groups pushing pro-UN propaganda within the USA:

 

UN USA .org: COUNCIL OF ORGANIZATIONS

 

Greatly augmenting the size of UNA's constituency are the more than 100 affiliated national organizations (among them education, religious, labor, environmental and women's groups) that have enlisted in UNA's Council of Organizations. These organizations share the common goals of making the American public more knowledgeable about global issues, for informing and educating the public about the United Nations, and for strengthening the U.N. system.

 

            The Council has two working arms, one based in Washington, D.C., and one in New York. Their respective Executive Committees constitute the Council's leadership. Both groups sponsor briefings and other programs throughout the year for NGOs to share educational information and advocacy plans regarding issues on the U.N. agenda.

...to participate in UNA-USA sponsored events such as U.N. Day programming, U.N. Day sign-on letters, and petitions, and UNA Day on Capitol Hill to visit members of Congress; conducting joint community work with the local units of organizations and local UNA chapters and divisions; providing Council members with programming guidance on U.N. issues for nationwide study and action; notifying the leadership of Council members of pending U.N. related legislation being considered by Congress; participating in the conventions of member organizations; publishing articles in the newsletters of Council members; distribution of UNA and members publications, and more.

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Busy little mischief-makers, aren't they?

E-mail the YWCA: webdiva@ywca.org.  

[OKSooner]

Fur trader...

[martian_22]

A very bad pick.
Peel away the masks to find her core. Under the feminist mask I find a lesbian. Under the lesbian mask I see a communist. Under the communist mask I find the usual agent of the old family Luciferians.

Before you laugh at my simple-mindedness remember, while some of us most certainly don't believe in the existence of a devil or satan the important thing is that the worshipers of evil do and they actively work for political control.

[AnAmericanMother]

The BSA does have two co-ed divisions for older youth, age 14 to 21 - Venturing BSA and Explorer BSA. Explorers are career based - they are sponsored by a fire department, police department, law firm, or other group that young men and women might be interested in joining. Venturing is for older youth who want to continue the outdoor high adventure experience of Boy Scouting.

The Wednesday after her fourteenth birthday, my daughter happily enrolled in a great Venturing Crew. She loathed the Girl Scouts not only because they were so "New Agey" as she put it - but also because they never DID any outdoor adventure, and she's an outdoor girl. So far (she is not yet 15) they have been on wonderful campouts at the Woodruff Scout Reservation, been to a great Winter convention of Venturing Crews and Explorer Posts in Gatlinburg Tennessee -- the skiing was pretty awful but the activities and fellowship were great -- to a "high ropes" course, and the Crew is going to Philmont in the summer. Whitewater rafting, horseback camping, short hikes on the AT, a flag retirement ceremony at the American Legion for folks who want to properly and respectfully dispose of tattered and weathered American Flags, and a dynamite garage sale to raise money planned for the fall! We have six "advisors" rather than leaders - three men and three women - and the members are the nicest, most wholesome young men and women you could ever hope to meet - kind to each other, helpful, walking advertisements for BSA! I'm privileged to be working with these great people!

Do I sound like a walking advertisement? We just got back from attending a High Ropes Course at Woodruff Scout Reservation, in which this 48 year old momma joined to the best of her ability. We did problem solving stuff which you old Army types might remember from Leadership Initiative Courses (getting 12 people over a wall, getting the same 12 people across a muddy pond with four stumps and five 4 x 4s of differing lengths, including one ringer that didn't fit anywhere) fell backwards off of walls into the joined hands of the rest of our "team", moved large timbers with half of us blindfolded and half of us "mute", and so forth. I came to grief in my attempts to "chimney" up a 35-foot wall - my tired muscles couldn't handle the additional avoirdupois of the 30 years since I last was rock climbing. But I watched with tremendous pride as my delicate, gawky, shy daughter scaled a 45 foot rope ladder, and (belayed in a harness) walked a 50 foot log with no hand holds, walked a slack wire with two hand wires, and finally negotiated a wire where the hand wires trailed off to below the foot wire - all without falling off! She has always been afraid of heights, so this was a real moment of truth for her.

She's thrilled to be working towards her Ranger Award - and, yes, all you Eagle Scouts, I know it's not "the same as Eagle", but it's an opportunity for young ladies to learn the same skills and tenacity and dedication to purpose taught by achieving that level in Scouting.

If you've got kids in the right age group, sign them up! Most of our boys are also active in their Scout Troop.

[Think free or die]

Great suggestions. Our sons are too young at this point, but in a few years they won't be. I would have loved the venturing division if it had been available to me at that age.

[AnAmericanMother]

I wish it had been available to me, too.

At least in Georgia, parent participation is welcomed at all levels of Scouting. I've been camping with my son as well. Are your sons in BSA now?

[AgThorn]

great testimony on BSA!! thanks for the update!

[thegreatbeast]

This is a fait accompli. You could get millions to sign petitions and it wouldn't dislodge Ireland from doing her evil business at the "Y".
This is so "in your face" that it makes you wonder. It probably does have something to do with the fact that the Y is an NGO and has that relationship with the UN. Besides the pure affrontery of this move, it has scary implications. Only bad can come of this.

[Think free or die]

Our boys are in Cub Scouts. I go along with my 'guys' on a lot of activities. It's a very family-oriented organization, and I like getting to know our sons' friends and friends' parents. We've had a great year of scouting, and the pack is growing nicely. Kids just love this program, provided they have adequate parental involvement and focus. We're a scouting family. My husband and my brother are both Eagle Scouts; there was never any question about whether to join!

[AnAmericanMother]

That's great! I grew up in a family of girls so I never had the opportunity to participate in Scouting even as a sibling. My daughter has been going along on Cub Scout family campouts since my son was a Tiger Cub.

BSA is a great organization!

[TonyRo76]

The YWCA as an org is about as Christian as the National Council of Churches. A paragon of leftwing, New Age, touchy-feely cr@p that in no way reflects true, Biblical Christianity.

[TonyRo76]

Fur trader...

LOL. Never heard that one before. Yuck!

[bray]

Should be a great place for PatwishIwasaman Ireland to pick-up chicks?

Pray for GW and the Truth

[Tony in Hawaii]

A "Nobody tells me nuthin' around here" bump.