Conservative Christians just lost another skirmish in the fight to save the culture/country. This time the battleground was an Austin,Texas branch of the YMCA. In a July 12th Townhall post, David Limbaugh reported on the most recent offensive by the pro-abortion crowd ~Culture War Has Escalated From Cold to White-Hot ~
… pro-abortion groups could not let stand an arrangement between the SFLA (Students for Life of America) and the associate branch director of the Town Lake branch of the YMCA of Austin for the SFLA’s use of the Y’s showers for the week of the “Students #Stand4Life Bus Tour.”
That’s right; certain members of the club complained that it would be “too political” to allow pro-lifers in the showers, so they pressured management to exclude the group. Too political? What?
Note that it wasn’t that the pro-lifers were carrying placards into the showers or proselytizing recalcitrant pro-aborts while toweling off. It was the mere presence of pro-lifers, even if they were minding their own business, that the pro-abort bullies found intolerable.
And the YMCA – that would be the Young Men’s Christian Association, an organization founded in London on June 6th, 1844, whose original mission was:
to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy “body, mind and spirit” – that YMCA, caved.
Limbaugh continued ~
Conservatives and Christians are no longer engaged in a cold war with secular leftists. This war is white-hot, and we’re losing because we’re in denial, naive, willfully and blissfully ignorant, cowardly, or confusing the Scripture that tells us to rejoice in our persecution as an admonition to abstain from politics.
One by one, individuals and groups (Boy Scouts, the Y, retailers threatened with boycotts) are abandoning their principles rather than face the wrath of the totalitarian left.
People often ask me, “Yes, but what can we do?” Well, you can start by recognizing the reality and speaking out against it — even if you will subject yourself to ridicule as a result. That’s an essential first step, and we can proceed from there.
Battle lines have been clearly drawn.
The only remaining questions are ~
Which side are you on?
And when are you going to engage?
“No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn
us aside from following the light unflinchingly.”
~ JRR Tolkien ~
Related:
Not Fun to Stay at the YMCA ~ First hand account of the group’s ostracism at the SFLA site.
