Organizations that Lose Their Purpose...

Yes, they are broken, too.

We have had a graphic example of that in the last few days.

[I know I said I wasn't going to get into politics, but somehow it seems almost unavoidable.]

The Susan G. Komen Foundation, the "Race for the Cure" people who promote pink all over the place about breast cancer, decided to defund Planned Parenthood supposedly because that organization was being investigated by Congress. The uproar that has followed has, I think, been much to the benefit of Planned Parenthood, and has given Komen a black eye. And while appearing to reverse its decision after two days, the Foundation has been decidedly ungracious and dishonest about it.

Some context:

First, Planned Parenthood has taken the place of ACORN in this election cycle as the sound bite used by extreme conservative candidates to "mobilize the base." Despite having less than 3% of its budget involved in the termination of pregnancies, Planned Parenthood is routinely condemned by the Newts and Michelles and Ricks as the "largest abortion provider in the country" with nary a mention of the other 97% of the services they provide to people, many of them those poor who "we don't need to worry about" according to Mitt.

So a career politico who has long had her sights on Planned Parenthood joins Komen and shortly thereafter Komen promulgates a policy to defund grantees "under investigation."

Just for the record any yahoo lamebrain who happens to be a Congressman can call for an investigation of anything.

Also just for the record, the only grantee defunded by Koman was Planned Parenthood.

Do the Komen people admit that allowing their charity to be co-opted for a political agenda was a mistake and they are sorry? Nope. They deny that their decision was political and actually decry those who question their actions for being "political" including a particularly offensive tweet from the executive whose idea this was.

You can be pro-life. Fine. You can say abortion is a bad thing, and mostly I will agree with you.

But the kind of outright lying and distortion involved in running this particular agenda stinks. Anyone with any sense of decency knows it stinks.

Sad because Komen made good things happen. Now their name is trash because someone had an agenda that was nowhere near the organization's purpose and decided it was worth breaking Komen to feed her politics. Shame!