December 11, 2003
Fliers advertising a YMCA basketball program have been banned from a California school district:
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.
I'm curious what kind of principles they would prefer...demonic Principles? Violent Principles? Selfish Principles? The rules of conduct at public schools are not much different than 'Christian Principles', does that make them invalid too? It seems like education spending has to increase in order to maintain the standard of politically correctness. (That is why our kids are there, right?)
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.
The basketball-camp flier included the words: "To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build spirit, mind and body for all."
The YMCA made the right call. Organizations that are willing to sacrifice their core values for any reason do not survive. I have coached at the YMCA for several years and they are a solid organization. Their purpose is to provide positive examples to children and to give them the opportunity to excel.
The paper reports district officials called the Y to tell them they could either delete the Christian reference or stop distributing the fliers. The organization chose the latter option.
I wish our schools had the same goal.
(Hat-tip to Theosebes)
