YWCA Worker Fired after Inviting Pro-Life Speaker

CitizenLink ^ | 11-27-2007

[Coleus]

It appears only one side of the abortion debate was allowed.   Shannon Nixson, a case manager and graduate student, was fired this month from the YWCA of Greater Cincinnati after she invited a pro-life speaker to address pregnant women at the club. Nixson said she was allowed to recruit speakers on both sides of several other issues, but only one view of the abortion debate was welcomed. Nixson asked a representative of Life Issues Institute to present a pro-life perspective during a seminar on employment and literacy.

“Within the next couple of days, I was told that I was terminated, and when I was asked why I was terminated, the only issue that they brought up was this occurrence of this pro-life speaker coming.” YWCA President and CEO Charlene Ventura said Nixson was not fired for her personal beliefs.  The speaker in question was Arnold Culbreath, urban outreach director for Life Issues Institute. He said he knew the YWCA was pro-abortion. “That’s why I was phenomenally excited about God having opened that door of opportunity to come in," he told Family News in Focus.

[the invisib1e hand]

yeah, right.

[Past Your Eyes]

What does the C in YWCA stand for?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Rhymes with “bunt” ?

[doc1019]

Yep, I can remember when it was the YW “Christian” A. Aging myself yet again.

[Cicero]

Their new motto should be:

“YWCA: Express your womanhood by killing babies!”

[robomatik]

as a cincinnatian, i am appalled i tell you! just appalled at this! (p.s. the downtown ywca is located two blocks from music hall ((i saw pavoratti and sills there in the '70's)) its now a crack infested s##t hole i wouldnt visit if you gave me the keys to the kingdom).

/rant>

[rockinqsranch]

Sheesh! Wonder how long this lady had worked with Liberals.

One has to know if having been around Liberals enough that they never state the truth. One has to make the choice of either working under their rules, if one can figure them out themselves, or being in a constant state of employment transition until one finds that special job.

[rawhide]

Charlene Ventura

[crghill]

YWCA...where the only thing Christian, is the name!

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

What does the C in YWCA stand for?

Communist?
Courtesan?
Concubine?

[Hoodat]

More intolerance from the left.

[MrEdd]

And the first two words are now Yawning wet. Truly disgusting transformation.

[pgobrien]

That’s why the left loves islaam, they have so much in common.
“Submit to our beliefs, or be gone (or dead)”
At least the muzzies are honest about it, the left feigns civility. POlitical dhimmitude. The YWCA has little to do with Youth, NOTHING to do with Christianity, all about Women....but are more like a Social cell than an association. Radical wackos.

[pgobrien]

Contact information of the open minded Ms Ventura, if any care to express their thoughts.

513-361-2119

cventura@ywcacin.org

[Mark was here]

I wonder if the YWCA gets “contributions” from Planned Parenthood, based upon the number of referrals?

[television is just wrong]

another C word rhymes with bunt. as earlier stated.

[ApplegateRanch]

Chanteuse?

[Arthur McGowan]

Chlamydia

[Bluebird Singing]

Also from the YWCA Greater Cincinnati website:

“Eliminating racism, empowering women — it’s what we are about and what we intend to do.

Our formal mission statement:

The YWCA USA is a women’s membership movement nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and values. Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women’s growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary.”