Incited religious right furor. (Worth Noting).
* The Young Women's Christian Association Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), organization whose stated mission is "to empower women and girls and to eliminate racism." The movement is nondenominational. (YWCA) has incited religious right furor by hiring the admitted bisexual and former National Organization for Women leader Patricia Ireland as its new chief executive officer. "The focus [of the YWCA] will now become homosexual indoctrination in·doc·tri·nate
tr.v. in·doc·tri·nat·ed, in·doc·tri·nat·ing, in·doc·tri·nates
1. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles.
2. among young girls," warns Don Wildmon of the fundamentalist American Family Association The American Family Association (AFA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes conservative Christian values.[1][2][3][4] It was founded in 1977 by Rev. .
Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist.
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