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What has happened to the organizations for young people that were supposed to reflect -- even advocate -- our Judeo-Christian ideals? Take, for instance, the Girl Scout Promise. It states, “On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law.” Then there is the statement for the Young Men's Christian Association that asserts the organization's mission is: "To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all." Recently there were two instances that demonstrated the loss of...

STOPP International Joins Protest to Implore YMCA: Keep the 'C' in YMCA, Refuse to Rent to Nation's Largest Abortion Provider 3/4/04 4:14:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Erik Whittington of the American Life League's STOPP International, 540-226-9004 or ewhittington@all.org WASHINGTON, March 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- American Life League's STOPP International is among the growing number of groups, including Pro-Life Wisconsin (an American Life League associate group), protesting the YMCA of Greater St. Paul, Minn., for its decision to rent its facilities to Planned Parenthood. "It is appalling that the Young Men's Christian Association-an organization that openly trades on...

St. Paul, MN (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood of Minnesota/South Dakota has backed out of a rental agreement with YMCA of Greater St. Paul's Camp St. Croix in Hudson, Wisconsin. The abortion business had planned to hold a retreat for parents and children at the YMCA facility Saturday. "Planned Parenthood canceled the rental agreement for the retreat scheduled for March 6," Bette Fenton, Vice President of Marketing and Communications for YMCA of Greater St. Paul told LifeNews.com. "The reason we were given is that their collaborative partner for the retreat canceled." Tina Smith, Planned Parenthood vice president of public affairs, told...

St. Paul, MN (LifeNews.com) -- The YMCA of Greater St. Paul has refused to cancel an event conducted by the nation's largest abortion business, currently scheduled at its Camp St. Croix in Hudson, Wisconsin. As YMCAs are separate entities able to set their own policies, pro-life advocates fear this opens the door to other YMCA/Planned Parenthood arrangements across the country. "Because of opposition to an element of the broad Planned Parenthood agenda, several persons have asked the YMCA to ban Planned Parenthood from our facility. We have denied that request. The YMCA is a community service organization, is open to...

Hudson, WI (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates in Wisconsin are outraged that the local YMCA is renting space to Planned Parenthood for conferences aimed at youth and their parents. Planned Parenthood of Minnesota/South Dakota is offering Mother & Daughter and Father & Son retreats at the YMCA Camp St. Croix in Hudson during weekends this coming spring and fall. The event does not appear to be advertised by the local YMCA, but the events are listed at the Planned Parenthood affiliate's website. Darla Meyers, who is organizing local awareness and protest of the arrangement, said she believes this is the first...

TESTING THE FAITHYMCA fliers banned from schoolAd promoting basketball camp mentions 'Christian principles' Posted: December 11, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Not known as an overtly Christian organization, the YMCA has come under fire in Bakersfield, Calif., where a school district banned the organization's promotional fliers from its campuses. The local Y can no longer send fliers home with children because a recent one happened to mention the organization puts "Christian principles into practice," reports the Bakersfield Californian. YMCA officials are fuming, the paper reports, and the brouhaha could possibly affect other area school districts. The offending flier, which a district...

On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...

<p>Did you hug a priest today? Run from a scary homosexual person? Coo over a copy of Bride's magazine? Fall on your knees and thank God Almighty that your child isn't yet gay or pagan or libertarian and if she is that's OK because it's nothing that regular lithium and electroshock therapy can't "cure"?</p>

<p>These are the things to corrupt young gullible minds and short-circuit self-expression and demean the desperately needed impulse toward spontaneous self-awareness and individuality and happy guiltless vaginal investigations.</p> <p>These are the things to make Mary-Kate and Ashley's alarming and utterly demonic stranglehold on the world of vacuous saccharine multimillion-dollar teendom seem like a boring day at the mall, with lots of makeup and tube tops and Hot Dog on a Stick.</p>

<p>Political correctness is breaking the hearts of thousands of little girls &#8212; and their daddies are having a hard time explaining why multicultural hypersensitivity is more important than their daughters' innocent fun.</p> <p>Beginning this month, the YMCA's Indian Princesses organization will cease to exist. The group was inspired by Harold Keltner, a St. Louis YMCA director, who teamed up with a Canadian Ojibway Indian in 1926 to create a unique outdoors club for dads and children. Joe Friday, Mr. Keltner's good friend, fishing partner and hunting guide, spoke to YMCA members in Missouri about American Indian culture and the importance of the father's character-shaping role.</p>

Political correctness is breaking the hearts of thousands of little girls – and their daddies are having a hard time explaining why multicultural hypersensitivity is more important than their daughters' innocent fun. Beginning this month, the YMCA's Indian Princesses organization will cease to exist. The group was inspired by Harold Keltner, a St. Louis YMCA director, who teamed up with a Canadian Ojibway Indian in 1926 to create a unique outdoors club for dads and children. Joe Friday, Keltner's good friend, fishing partner and hunting guide, spoke to YMCA members in Missouri about American Indian culture and the importance...

Political correctness is breaking the hearts of thousands of little girls -- and their daddies are having a hard time explaining why multicultural hypersensitivity is more important than their daughters' innocent fun. Beginning this month, the YMCA's Indian Princesses organization will cease to exist. The group was inspired by Harold Keltner, a St. Louis YMCA director, who teamed up with a Canadian Ojibway Indian in 1926 to create a unique outdoors club for dads and children. Joe Friday, Keltner's good friend, fishing partner and hunting guide, spoke to YMCA members in Missouri about American Indian culture and the importance of...

Bush promotes fitness at Dallas YMCA 07/18/2003By COLLEEN McCAIN NELSON / The Dallas Morning News President Bush didn't cause much of a stir Friday at the Lakewest YMCA pool. In fact, a few young swimmers weren't convinced that the gentleman in the blue plaid shirt was the presidential visitor they had been promised. "That isn't him," one child announced as Mr. Bush greeted a group of campers. "Yes it is. That's the president," his friend informed him. Mr. Bush, who was in town for a $2,000-a-plate campaign fund-raiser, stopped by the Lakewest YMCA for a quick tour and to...

YMCA Leader Charged With Child Rape The assistant director of the Green Hills YMCA teen center is in police custody. David Jones Hill has been charged with four felony counts that include the rape and fondling of a teenage boy. According to the indictiment, 32-year-old Hill allegedly began to molest a 13-year old boy in 2001. Two other alleged victims have come forward but the statute of limitations has ended. The alleged sexual acts took place at the Green Hills YMCA, where he had worked with teenagers for the past 15 years. All of his alleged victims were teenage...

One night each month, Charlie Bright and his daughter, 7-year-old Kelsey, don vests and headbands adorned in feathers and beads, transforming themselves into "Running Deer" and "Little Deer" -- chief and princess of the "Lummi Tribe." The "tribe" -- 10 pairs of fathers and daughters named after the real-life Indian nation of Northwest Washington -- opens each meeting with the beating of an ornate drum.Princesses take turns passing the "talking stick." They tell stories and do handicrafts, and through faux Indian rituals and regalia, dads and daughters cultivate relationships -- the ultimate goal of the YMCA's Y-Guides and Princesses program.The...

B'nai B'rith has issued a new report sharply criticizing YMCA/YWCA for its array of pro-Palestinian activities, including a recent campaign undertaken by the group called "Free Palestine". The report notes that as part of the campaign, which is being spearheaded by the YWCA of "Palestine" and the eastern Jerusalem YMCA, a brochure was issued that compares the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel to the crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans. The brochure states, "Jesus was crucified with the people who were branded as 'terrorists' by the authorities of this time. The Palestinians are currently crucified, humiliated, and denied their...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. ORANGE, Calif. - KRT NEWSFEATURES (KRT) - For 80 years, the YWCA of Central Orange County has offered a range of services to thousands of up-and-coming and down-and-out women: job training, child care, fitness programs, rape counseling and shelters for victims of domestic violence. Now those services are being farmed out to other community organizations as the YWCA chapter in Orange prepares to go out of business. Established to assist women making the transition from domestic life to factory work during the Industrial Age, the Young Women's Christian Association played a...

An Open Letter to Nick Nightingale, Secretary General,World Alliance of YMCAs Dear Nick, It's stunning to come visit the YMCA website. To discover that the association that I remember as a squeaky clean, upstanding, Christian affliation of men down the streets has become a radicalized fraud, bloated with typical left-wing global-domination propaganda. The usual cliches and half-truths are on view at your site: the usual gobbledygook of "economic justice," anti-industrialization, "gender equality," hatred of the free market and individualism. Why, Nick, for a moment I thought I was at the UN's website! Thus it should not be surprising that you...

It's a brave new world at your local Big Brothers Big Sisters office. As of this month, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA) will require that all 500 of its local affiliates include active homosexuals as volunteers and mentors to children. Many parents who support Big Brothers Big Sisters may be surprised to learn that their child could soon be paired with a gay or lesbian mentor. In fact, parents whose children are enrolled in the organization's school-based programs will not even be told when their son or daughter is matched with a gay man or a lesbian woman....