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Wounded Warrior Project Rejects Funds from Local Church
By GOPUSA Staff February 2, 2013 7:13 am

Here's a story that will leave you scratching your head. A Christian church and affiliated school in Florida held a fundraising drive to help the Wounded Warrior Project. Children in the school were excited about the task, but later were crushed when the funds were turned down, because the organization is "religious in nature."

As reported by Todd Starnes at Fox Radio, the pastor of Liberty Baptist Church and Academy, Wallace Cooley, said that "they had already paid a $100 registration fee to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project and were about to launch the campaign when they received an email from the organization."

The church had planned on taking up a special offering on the last Sunday in February and students were collecting money from family and friends.

“We must decline the opportunity to be the beneficiary of your event due to our fundraising event criteria, which doesn’t allow community events to be religious in nature,” read an email from the WWP community events team. “Please note your registration fee will be refunded within the next 7-10 business days.”

WWP said as a nonpartisan organization they cannot accept event fundraising from companies “in which the product or message is religious in nature.”

Pastor Cooley said they were so shocked that the school secretary called Wounded Warrior to make sure there hadn’t been a mistake. He said a WWP representative assured her that “religious” was indeed on their banned list.

WPTV News Channel 5 reports that the school and parents are hoping "Wounded Warrior Project has a change of heart."

Katherine Johnson, the school's principal commented on the incident and said, " those men who are trying to fight for our freedom, now it feels like our freedoms are being taken away and we want them to realize the seriousness of what they are doing."

Barbie, the mother of Madision said, they sit there in school and say the pledge of allegiance and they sing God bless America and we teach them about freedom but, then what kind of freedom is it if we can't turn around and give to those who take their life and get injured."

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Yeh, I read that and thought, "does that mean they also wont support wounded soldiers who are religeous"?
Obviously their a PC driven org...

[Stargazer]

I have been an on-going contributor to WWF and am sorry to see this. My experience is when an organization gets "big", they tend to get caught up in the bureaucracy and politics of the day. It is one of the reasons I continue to support individuals through direct fundraisers too.

I have contributed to the GBF on occasion and used the text option a couple of times which is great (reminders in FB timelines work)! I have no problem redirecting my monthly contribution.

[Surf n Turf]

WWF Logo
I have read the article(s) about the WWF refusal to “accept” the contribution from the church, and concluded that the issue is not the contribution, but the churches use of the WWF logo in its fund raising efforts.

If the WWF allows the logo to be used, it infers that the Wounded Warriors Foundation supports the FUND RAISING efforts of the organization.
This allows (insert organization here) to claim “We Support the WWF” and use the WWF logo in publicizing their solicitation / cause.
This scenario would allow any organization to collect contributions under the banner of WWF, and use / misuse the LOGO at their discretion --- say 95% admin, or 50% to someone’s mistress /boyfriend.
If the church wanted to make a contribution, they could do just that---- contribute to WWF – but NOT use the logo or allude approval from the WWF.

Sounds like mendacity to me.
Snt