Posted on 02/01/2013 2:21:14 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll
A Christian church and school in Florida are devastated after they said Wounded Warrior Project refused to accept their fund raising effort because it was “religious in nature.”
“We were heartbroken,” said Wallace Cooley, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church and Academy in Fort Pierce, Fla.
Cooley said they had already paid a $100 registration fee to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and were about to launch the campaign when they received an email from the organization.
The church had planned on taking up a special offering on the last Sunday in February and students were collecting money from family and friends.
“We must decline the opportunity to be the beneficiary of your event due to our fundraising event criteria, which doesn’t allow community events to be religious in nature,” read an email from the WWP community events team. “Please note your registration fee will be refunded within the next 7-10 business days.”
WWP said as a nonpartisan organization they cannot accept event fundraising from companies “in which the product or message is religious in nature.”
Pastor Cooley said they were so shocked that the school secretary called Wounded Warrior to make sure there hadn’t been a mistake. He said a WWP representative assured her that “religious” was indeed on their banned list.
“We had to tell our children and parents we can’t give to the Wounded Warrior Project,” Pastor Cooley told Fox News. “We are second-class citizens now because we are people of faith.”
A Wounded Warrior told Fox News they would look into the matter. The organization did not respond to subsequent telephone calls.
The fundraising project was a joint effort by the 400-member church and the 460 students who attend the academy. The pastor said he first learned about WWP by watching Fox News Channel.
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We give to them monthly.....hmmmmm....maybenot any more.
Wounded Warrior backpedals, to appear on Gun Talk Radio Sunday Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is in full damage-control mode as gun owners from across America are expressing outrage at the manner with which the WWP’s public relations director Leslie Coleman dismissively rejected an invitation for Wounded Warrior Project to appear on the nationally-syndicated Gun Talk Radio hosted by Tom Gresham on Veteran’s Day last weekend.GunsSaveLife.com linkWWP reversed themselves earlier this week and sought a new invitation to appear on Gresham’s Gun Talk Radio, seeking to bring a wounded warrior to speak about the WWP organization, but Gresham declined that and told the WWP people that any appearances will be there solely to discuss WWP’s policies about media appearances.
I can’t pass the salvation army buckets because they still say Merry Christmas.
BTW. I just went to WWP;s facebook and commented why I won’t support them anymore-along with tons of other posts.
Ditto !
I have been working for a while on how I could afford to give to WWP. They reject religion and the 2nd Amendment? They just lost me.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/wwpinc.fans?fref=ts
My post on their facebook below.
I was a supporter of WWP until I heard how poorly you treated this young group of children who saved their lunch money to help the veterans. Unless you receive govt money you are not prevented by law to receive donations from any specific groups. I will be returning my next donation envelope empty with the same note. There are many other groups who help veterans who would not have denied these children the opportunity to show compassion and charity.
I got no problem with that. Our money can go elsewhere.
Well, I have to admit that I am stunned. They’ll get NO MORE donations from me. There are PLENTY of other organizations that raise money to help soldiers wounded during any of the wars, and since our retirement, we’ve had to cut back from that giving. This will allow giving to another...or giving more to one we already give to.
Sowing division between Christianity and our Heroes.
It’s not about Merry Christmas, though....it’s more about starving the beast.
And it sucks to be the meanie, but it also sucks to have my tax dollars spent on certain groups, then I am insulted because I still didn’t pay “my fair share”, and then all these charities come a’callin to bleed me some more & the guilt trip continues.
Am I to provide every little thing for everyone who demands it?
Sorry, I’m done. Charity starts at home, and I suspect at some point in the not to distant future, you will regret tossing over your extra money to those who will never thank you, never be grateful, will always demand more....and if the SHTF, will kill you to get your last scraps.
JMHO - good luck!
It’s not about Merry Christmas, though....it’s more about starving the beast.
And it sucks to be the meanie, but it also sucks to have my tax dollars spent on certain groups, then I am insulted because I still didn’t pay “my fair share”, and then all these charities come a’callin to bleed me some more & the guilt trip continues.
Am I to provide every little thing for everyone who demands it?
Sorry, I’m done. Charity starts at home, and I suspect at some point in the not too distant future, you will regret tossing over your extra money to those who will never thank you, never be grateful, will always demand more....and if the SHTF, will kill you to get your last scraps.
JMHO - good luck!
Why? He's merely a supporter too.....
Shameless plug:
But if you want to help the wounded, ill and injured vets, try the Silver Star Families of America.
Born right here on FR
Silverstarfamilies.org
97 cents of every dollar goes to programs and they pay no salaries.
Agreed. IMHO, the Salvation Army is a wonderful organization.
If Satan himself had come up from the bowels of Hell with the single intent of destroying the greatest country on earth, he couldn’t have done a better job than what Obama and his filthy democrats have done and continue to do.
Obama and his filthy democrats will not suffer from this, but our Wounded Warriors sure as hell will.
This country has become a disgusting disgrace.
Hubby and I are redoing our wills. WWP was going to be one of our beneficiaries.
Not no mo.
It shouldn’t be too hard to find another deserving charity who isn’t offended by our belief in God.
Thank you. Bookmarked!
Thanks for posting this. I contribute monthly. I am going to write and see what they say. I’m pretty disturbed by this, God heals wounded soldiers through the doctor’s hands.
WWP CEO looks to be about a 25 years old and gets over $300,000 dollars a year in salary for sitting on his ass.
The money being donated is not going to help wounded veterans, it’s goes in this lib’s bank account, along with the rest of his liberal buddies. I started suspecting WWP was a leftist organization when I saw their ads on TV very 5 minutes. Normally when you see any charity begging as much as WWP does it is a scam and that is exactly what I think WWP is. Give to the Salvation Army, USO or Catholic Charities if you want the money to be used for what it is intended and that is not to fatten the bank account of the so-called CEOs that are getting rich off gullible Americans.
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/11/daniel-zimmerman/incendiary-image-of-the-day-6/
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