Comments on: Don’t Forget Them http://bethpartin.com/dont-forget-them/ Make anything an adventure Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:22:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Beth Partin http://bethpartin.com/dont-forget-them/comment-page-1/#comment-2867 Beth Partin Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:10:52 +0000 http://bethpartin.com/?p=3201#comment-2867 Yeah, I had forgotten that about the Salvation Army. I feel kind of small-minded when I make remarks like that about religion and charity, because religious organizations do so much to help people. On the other hand, I'd rather that charity and religion were kept separate. Or, at most, a chapel on-site at a homeless shelter. .-= Beth Partin´s last blog ..<a href="http://bethpartin.com/dont-forget-them/" rel="nofollow">Don’t Forget Them</a> =-. Yeah, I had forgotten that about the Salvation Army. I feel kind of small-minded when I make remarks like that about religion and charity, because religious organizations do so much to help people. On the other hand, I’d rather that charity and religion were kept separate. Or, at most, a chapel on-site at a homeless shelter.
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]]> By: Catherine http://bethpartin.com/dont-forget-them/comment-page-1/#comment-2866 Catherine Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:52:23 +0000 http://bethpartin.com/?p=3201#comment-2866 I struggle with giving to the salvation army and didn't for many years because of their anti-gay stance. But they are a successful charity that uses 89 cents of every dollar donated actually HELPING people. So, we put a few dollars in their pails. But it's more a lesson in charity than actual useful donation, the anti-gay is just too much for me to ignore. We do adopt-a-family every year. It used to be that you could go to flatiron crossing mall and a nice secular organization was running a toy drive. Now it's the salvation army. I paused because on the one hand I want my kids to participate in giving but on the other hand I know that none of the kids' names on the tree come from a gay parent family. My son's school had a food drive this month and becuase of it I learned that that Adams county food bank is housed at Immaculate Heart church. That causes some cognitive dissonance. I assume religious institutions step up where the government falls down. I struggle with giving to the salvation army and didn’t for many years because of their anti-gay stance. But they are a successful charity that uses 89 cents of every dollar donated actually HELPING people. So, we put a
few dollars in their pails. But it’s more a lesson in charity than actual useful donation, the anti-gay is just too much for me to ignore. We do adopt-a-family every year. It used to be that you could go to flatiron crossing mall and a nice secular organization was running a toy drive. Now it’s the salvation army. I paused because on the one hand I want my kids to participate in giving but on the other hand I know that none of the kids’ names on the tree come from a gay parent family.

My son’s school had a food drive this month and becuase of it I learned that that Adams county food bank is housed at Immaculate Heart church. That causes some cognitive dissonance. I assume religious institutions
step up where the government falls down.

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