I'’m tired of liberal friends who want to chide me for not being open-minded. There are some areas I am more closed than others. I like supporting organizations and institutions that match my views in life.
If I am expected to give to charities that support Planned Parenthood and other liberal causes why don’t the liberals support the things that matter to me? Hypocrisy.
That’s why when Katrina hit I made a bold statement that if you are going to give, give to the Salvation Army or some other trusted faith based organization. I said that the Red Cross for all the good it has done is a hopelessly inefficient bureaucracy and your money will be wasted on that inefficiency. I was chastised for that view.
I’ll do that when they agree to support the Intelligent Design Fund for Education.
I believe Faith Based organizations just do better than Secular organizations. I mean who do you want doing the hard things for your community, the government, FEMA anyone, the ACLU or NAACP (when’s the last time they did anything that mattered), and most secular charities are bloated and ineffective. Many faith-based groups are too. You have to be careful. But as opposed to a faith-based group, would you rather a hypocrite-based group. Sorry, I’m not open-minded about this. Even United Way has lost its way (so to speak). Don’t knock on my door for their cause.
The other day our church took 70 people into the local youth prison. They brought in hundreds of dozen cookies. The reason? The state has cut funding for doing the things needing done. The chaplainry has been trimmed. The state can no longer afford to do what they promised. So, United Way, nope, Red Cross, Don’t think so, local church, yep.
Support faith based organizations doing good things in your community. Start with putting a few bucks in the Salvation Army Buckets. A great investment and it gets lots of miles on each dollar.
They’ll even say, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
2 comments:
Speaking on behalf of ALL liberals in the USA, let me say this about that...
I'm (we're) big supporters of the Salvation Army. I do so for their deeds, NOT their words. I have disapproved of some of their dogma and policy through the years. (They're homophobic for example.) Despite that foible, I can't erase the memories of the S-A being at the site of countless flood emergencies and house fires in our area since I've lived here. If the dike broke, they were their with bologna sandwiches and hot coffee quicker than even the volunteer sandbaggers. The American Red Cross became diminished in my eyes years ago as I listened to tales of them CHARGING American troops coming back to the States for a cup of coffee there on the docks from which they boys arrived!
I think it's all too common for people (of whatever persuasion) to confuse being "open minded" or "narrow minded" with never coming to a conclusion that something is wrong. One can be perfectly open minded, consider an idea to its fullest extent, and in conclusion consider it immoral, wrong or not worth one's time. Better this than swallowing everything that comes along in the mis-nomer of being "open minded."
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