Posted on 01/14/2009 4:19:04 AM PST by UFC Pride K1
In my previous column on the subject, I highlighted the need for pro-life community organizers, and while some people thought it was a great idea, others were confused since it was most recently associated with President Elect Barack Obama.
The concept of community organizing is not a practice owned solely by leftists and communists, and it is not just for stirring up discontent among the "have nots".
Rather, pro-life community organizing involves reaching out to communities with some or all of these goals in mind:
1. Bring the Gospel of Life and crisis pregnancy outreach door to door, family to family, and person to person
2. Distribute pro-life literature and DVDs to every house in a neighborhood
3. Identify and establish relationships with those sympathetic to the unborn
4. Introduce pro-lifers to community efforts to end abortion
5. Organize a strong local pro-life voting block among members of all political parties
6. Dispel the myths put forth by the media and Planned Parenthood
7. Challenge people to think about what they mean by abortion and choice
8. Organize local opposition to Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics
Across the nation, there are many pro-life leaders who fill the role of community organizer, but there are far too few of them. Just imagine if in communities across the nation we had organizers with the caliber of Joe Scheidler, Chris Slattery, Jill Stanek, and Fr. Frank Pavone - the industry would surely be on its deathbed.
But the reality is that we don't have an army of door-knockers who can help organize local efforts day in and day out. Why? Because many of those who yearn to be full-time organizers have familial and financial obligations. If we want them to work full time in spreading the Gospel of Life and organizing local opposition to child killing, we have to make sure they can can pay the rent and feed their families.
The opposition understands this - as the Activist Next Door blog points out, Pro-choice North Carolina uses paid door-knockers to organize local support for abortion rights. Their website points out the success of a similar annual door-knocking campaign in Minnesota:
'Minnesota NARAL canvass, they have gone from 4,000 members to 45,000 members in 3 years and raised over $1.3 million dollars. As you know numbers and dollars equals power. I know we can match Minnesota's success in our state. "
Pro-life doorknocking is the natural evolution of the effort to stop legalized abortion, and it is probably one of the most effective - and relatively untapped - ways of spreading the Gospel of Life around the local community.
If the movement wants to ratchet up the effort to defend life and hasten the end to legalized abortion, then daily pro-life door knocking is a must.
Stay tuned for next week's launch of a pro-life community organizing initiative...
Let the Church be the Church. That means you, right where you are, in you every-day life. I have this hunch that if people just lived the truth instead of trying to package, promote, and push it, they'd be far more effective at influencing their part of the world for the better.
Excellent post.
The left has been successful using effective tactics. We don’t like the left. So we refuse to do anything effective because that is what the left does.
There are many different styles of community organizing. The Alinsky style is the most famous, but not the only one. And within the Alinsky movement there are many branches. In Chicaoland alone I’ve been involved in 4 distinctly different branches of Alinsky organizing.
A first step is for wannbe organizers to learn effective organizing tactics. That means attending one of the many organizing seminars put on by the left as none exist except on the left. Those attendees must be able to separate in their minds the tactics from the goals and not allow themselves to be distracted by the goals used as examples in the leftist schools they must attend to learn the tactics.
The alternative is to convince CLI-Campaign Leadership Institute type groups to develop a community organizing seminar that is not leftist.
Also conservatives are stupid. We let the liberals determine the rules (frame the debate). Take the term "Social Justice". That is actually is a good term for Pro-Liberty Conservative values. But because the Libs came up with it first. We will let them keep it, instead of explaining how we are the ones who really promote social justice, by defending property rights, religious rights, and other freedoms.
You can say let the church be the church, but if someone wants to give God their best, and not the leftovers. Then they will organize and work together to actually change the laws to make this country a better place for their fellow man. (the whole loving your neighbor thing)
If you think society should be organized around Judeo-Christian values, you need to radically oppose the status quo.
Pro-life organizations must WIN ELECTIONS! ( Yes, I am shouting!)
We must elect pro-life representatives who will then appoint pro-life judges.
This means learning to do what the left does so well.
*We must purge voter rolls of fraudulent names.
*Challenge in court all names that are suspicious.
*Organize really effective get out the vote campaigns.
*Have aggressive attorneys on hand to defend pro-life candidates in close elections.
*Armies of poll watchers.
*Demand that **all** ballots are secure from the time of their printing to their final count.
I wonder how many pro-life supporters send their children to the government schools? ( Just wondering)
A Christian's **most** important mission field is his **own** children.
A Christian's second most important mission field is that of the children of his congregation.
That 46% of **Mass attending** Catholics voted for Obama is a clear indication that families and churches are **failing** in the upbringing and teaching of their **own** children and members. ( I doubt the stats are any better for Bible-believing Christians).
If children are send into government and even private religious schools were Karl Marx is worshiped instead of God, then we shouldn't be surprised that, as adults, they confused a Marxist Obama for a god.
Keep me on this list. I’m an old PLCO from way back, and am getting antsy to get into it again.
I listened to a self-professed "community organizer" attempt to describe his job just the other day. And wanted to admonish him, "Get a real job, son."
Community Organizers might have existed before obama, but they were an obscurity in the junk drawer of society, right where they belong.
Go live. And be amazed at the results.
I agree. We need to do something besides talk about it. We need to take the conservative message to the neighborhoods because our society and our country is on the road to self destruction. There is not a lot of time left.
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