I guess Rush Limbaugh and Greg Easterbrook aren’t the only ones getting fired for their viewpoints:
Patricia Ireland, a prominent women’s rights advocate, has been dismissed after six months as chief executive of the YWCA of the U.S.A.
Dorris Daniel-Parkes has been named interim director by the National Coordinating Board of the YWCA, the organization said.
“We have the deepest admiration for Ms. Ireland’s dedication to women’s issues and social justice, but the YWCA has proved to be the wrong platform for her to advocate for these issues,” board chairwoman Audrey Peeples said in a press release.
True to Ireland form, it is someone else’s fault:
A former head of the Democrat group that calls itself National Organization for Women, she says right-wingers opposed her from the start because of her left-wing activism, because she admitted wanting to inject her politics into YWCA and because she lived with a woman in the 1990s while still married.
Once a victim, always a victim. Right, Patricia?
drew
When Ireland was appointed a while back the appointment was discussed it on Alan Colmes radio show. Everybody was pissed because she wouldn’t talk about her religious beliefs. Some woman from the Traditional Values Coalition was saying something to the affect of “They should take the “Christian” out of the Young Womens Christian Association. I doubt anybody would have made an issue about her faith if she was the athiest version of Phyllis Schlafly. The right claimed to be upset about her faith and morals but it was about ideology.
Dean
Right, Drew. Because living w/ someone (and not just as “room-mates”) when you’re married to someone else, that’s just acting as a paragon of morality and faith, innit?
Pauly
I think that her being affiliated with NOW would be enough to write her off in anyone’s book.
Misanthropyst
I think she got fired for eating lunch down at the Y…
…oh, my…