Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
-- Josef Stalin
Posted on 01/24/2009 7:03:02 AM PST by UFC Pride K1
New York, Jan 23, 2009 / 03:40 am (CNA).- A new pro-life initiative in New York City is being launched to rally pro-lifers and to persuade other Americans to become pro-life through a door-to-door community organizing campaign.
Organized for Life, the joint creation of the groups Prolife Witness and Pro-Life Unity, plans to distribute pro-life literature and DVDs to every house in targeted neighborhoods. According to its website, the campaign aims to "dispel the myths" publicized by the media and Planned Parenthood while challenging people to think what they mean by "abortion" and "choice."
The campaign will also engage in crisis pregnancy outreach while bringing the "Gospel of Life" door-to-door.
Another of its aims is to identify and establish relationships with pro-lifers, introducing them to community efforts against abortion such as local opposition to Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics. Organized for Life also aspires to create "a strong local pro-life voting bloc among members of all political parties."
"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'," the campaign's web site states.
Participants expressed optimism about the effort.
"Many of the people whose homes we visited responded positively," said Ruben Obregon, a co- founder of Organized for Life who went door-to-door last week in Staten Island, New York City.
"This groundbreaking initiative takes the abortion and life issues battle beyond the streets and the clinics and delivers the life message directly to the homes of American families," Obregon added.
Peter Shinn, co-founder of Organized for Life, remarked:
"Life issues need to be delivered in person so America can make educated, informed decisions... I believe one of the best ways this can be accomplished is through face to face contact, which is the backbone of Organized for Life."
The campaign has been endorsed by David Bereit, National Campaign Director of 40 Days for Life, who called it a "long-overdue effort" that fills a "huge gap" in the pro-life movement, according to a press release from the campaign.
"This is a HUGE opportunity that needs to be taken advantage of in the movement!" Bereit said.
The pro-life movement needs all the help it can get.President Obama has shown that he is 100% behind the culture of DEATH in the United States.In tough financial times,Obama signed an executive order which will allow Planned Parenthood and others to spend over 400 million U.S. tax dollars on abortion OVERSEAS! Why is Obama given a pass when he does such terrible things?
Ideas are more powerful than guns. If we don't let our people have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
-- Josef Stalin
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This is absolutely fantastic! What better place to begin this campaign than in the devil’s den of iniquity. I love NYC! May God bless your work!
No. I don't believe in hitching up with fads, adopting buzzwords, or photocopying the techiniques of leftists.
However, I am willing to live genuinely in the marketplace, and as a Catholic, and an American, that pretty much ensures that I lack no opportunities to engage the culture of death with ideas that it considers radical.
that clever post of yours could as easily be an advertisement promoting what you apparently have decided is our future, as it is an expression of your fears.
what?
It is our future only if we pretend I am wrong. one couod easily have made the argument that Hitler was a benign buffoon. In hindsight we know better. Hitler succeeded because nobody resisted. He was elected with a mere 36% of the vote, by 1939 90% of Germans supported him or did not care. It cost the world in excess of 70 million lives. Have fear my friend, My family has been there in Europe. I was born during the reign off Peron, another would be Hitler. Argentina was irreversibly ruined by him. Too many people think we should give Obama a chance. I have learned instead to never give a demagogue a chance. The stakes are too high. Maybe I am wrong about Obama and he’s a saint, somehow I don’t think so. At best he’s an incompetent idiot, at worst he is s slyful deceiver. Why take that chance?
One benefit of putting things down in black-and-white is that you never have to repeat yourself.
pro-life ping
“what?” can have many meanings. In this case, “r u crazy?”
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