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Wow, is that so? United Way is veryi active in poor communities and have many minority donors. Doesn't the organization also have a lot of ads featuring the NFL and its players? Hmm. This type of article deserves to end up in church bulletins, especially in the inner cities.

This type of article does not deserve to end up in church bulletins because it is littered with lies and falshehoods. United Way Cares is an information and referral program of one United Way branch (there are 1400). Providing information about an agency does not mean that it is supported, nor condemned - no more than the phone book. Would you put a letter in a church bulletin to stop supporting the yellow pages? Not only do the yellow pages advertise Planned Parenthood, but all the local hospitals - WHICH IS WHERE 70% OF ALL ABORTIONS TAKE PLACE! United Way is not a political organization and, hence, does not take a vocal politic stance on issues like abortion, etc. Their job is to tackle the root cause of the deepest community issues like homelessness, illiteracy, etc., and convene partners to do the same. The United Way does not push money through their organization to Planned Parenthood unless PP has been identified as a partner that can help address the issues identified BY THE COMMUNITY as the most important. Stop trying to push your views onto an organization that is doing really good work in the community.

Your readers should be aware that where payroll deduction camapigns for the United Way are underway (usually at large government or institution employers), donors have the right at the bottom of the form to donate to a Catholic charity in lieu of the United Way or any of its agencies. The money flows 100%, without deduction, to the non-member Catholic agency and the employee still gets their tax deduction, even though it will say "United Way" on it. This is what Catholics in my workplace do.

Catholic supporter,

If THE COMMUNITY identified an issue, say child prostitution, and wanted to provide new shoes to soothe their feet as they walk the streets, do you think an organization should send money to organizations that give child prostitutes better walking shoes, or do you think an organization should support efforts to get the children out of prostitution? Now let's turn to abortion. Should the United Way support communities that say, 'we need more money for abortions,' or should they work towards eliminating that need? Which method is more responsible? It's always more admirable to cure the disease rather than treat the symptoms.

A. Carlton said, "Your readers should be aware that where payroll deduction camapigns for the United Way are underway (usually at large government or institution employers), donors have the right at the bottom of the form to donate to a Catholic charity in lieu of the United Way or any of its agencies." Perhaps that's advice more people should follow.

i had heard that the North Dakota chapter of the United was contributed to planned parenthood. It that true ? If so (and i think it is) would you please send me information stating that so that i have written prof supporting why i will not donate to the United Way

Apparently many of the posters to this site do not have any type of financial or ethical education.

To give money to an agency that gives money to any abortion provider is the same as giving directly to the abortion provider. Cash is fungible.

In addition, even if you designate your money to go directly to a Catholic Charity, two things still happen. #1 An average of 19 cents for ever dollar goes to support United Way administrative costs (which provide support for all other United Way receipents). #2 In some, but not all United Way affiliates, your direct donation to a Catholic Charity simply fills a portion of the annual contribution by the United Way to the Catholic Charity, allowing more undesignated dollars to be sent to abortion providers. Many local agencies have admitted this practice and many have stopped it. However they still support abortion providers.

Finally, whoever posted the rediculous "shoes for children prostitutes" argument needs to rethink their position. Planned Parenthood "makes money from" and "provides" abortions, it is not out to save lives.

If an organization that gave shoes to shoeless prostitutes encouraged them to stay on the street, they too would be unfit for donations.

We must live and stand on "uncompromised" moral principals. I for one would rather loose my job for not participating in a United Way program than know that I had funded the death of one innocent child. In the end I only have to answer for my own actions.

To condemn the United Way at the national level is actually misleading, and shows ignorance of the organization and more importantly the locals under its structure.
While the United Way in NYC may fund agencies that provide it, other United Way locals across the state do not. They don't, for example, in Buffalo, my hometown. They also, by the way, DO support the Boy Scouts at my local United Way and have collaborated with Catholic Charities in efforts including Hurricane Katrina relief.
My only advice would be to do your homework more closely before reacting to someone's posting on here.
It's like saying all priests are child molestors, when only a very small fraction have indeed committed such a tragic deed.

To the person who commented that the United Way does not take a polical position. Go ask the Boyscouts about that. I can contribute without going through United Way. Thank you Jay for the info. John

Sorry, AJ, but your comparison of child prostitutation to abotion is hypocritical and flawed. If you think that it is more "admirable to cure the disease rather than treat the symptoms", than why does the Catholic church admantly oppose all forms of birth control. Yes, abstinance is the primary goal. But there are many poverty level, married couples that are in a situation where they cannot afford another child. According to the Catholic faith, use of a condom is a sin. That doesn't sound very admirable to me.

Hello "concerned christian",

The Catholic church adamantly opposes birth control which deranges fertility or the sexual act for the same reasons that every Christian denomination and preacher (including Martin Luther and John Calvin) before 1930 opposed it. Scripture condemns the use of contraceptives and masturbation in Genesis 38 - according to every Christian preacher before the 20th century.

As for married couples who cannot afford to have another child, the Catholic church encourages them to learn on what days they are potentially fertile and on what days they are infertile - and to schedule their conjugal relations accordingly.

From a purely practical point of view, this method of family planning has the advantages of being reliable (it's as effective as the pill), reversible (couples can change their mind any time they want as the method has no adverse effects upon their fertiliy), and does not have the possibility of preventing the implantation of a fertilized ovum.

The pill and depo reduces long term fertility even after usage stops and can prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum. Vasectomies and tubal ligation are very difficult to reverse. Barriers, foams, and jellies are highly unreliable.

Recommending the very best form of family planning to its members sounds very admirable to me. To my knowledge, only the Catholic Church allows for family planning while exposing the evils of contraceptives which derange fertility or the conjugal act.

Burnt Marshwiggle's comments are true and I would like to emphasize his comment that several methods of birth control have abortifacient properties. I think that many, many women and couples would rethink their birth control methods if they knew that the IUD, Norplant, Depo-Provera and many varieties of the pill (including the morning-after pill) can work by preventing implantation of an embryo (a baby!) that already has been created; hence, an abortion has occurred. Shame on the companies that produce these products and don't inform women and men about all of the possible ways that their products "prevent" pregnancy.

Jay,

Great article. Someone at work told me this after the annual UW pledge drive, and I couldn't believe my ears. My local chapter in San Diego does support PP. The take-home message is that any money given to UW directly or indirectly funds the killing of innocent human beings, even if designated for another cause.

Dan

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