People using the fitness equipment at the Stevens Point Y-M-C-A were arguing over politics. That’s why the gym has decided to ban cable news channels on its public televisions. The practice has an 80-year-old patron of the central Wisconsin “Y” protesting. Although Jim Hennelly told local police his civil rights were being violated by the ban, he was told the “Y” has the right to set its television to any channel it chooses.