formerly, Abortion is Murder, and, before that, skyp (stop
killing young people)
June 1,
2013, Vol. 11 No. 3
PO
Box 7424, Reading, PA 19603
Phone,
484-706-4375
Web,
skyp1.blogspot.com
Circulation,
244
Editor,
John Dunkle
“Contraception” is Murder, a weak, pathetic
response to baby murder, is sent out at least once a month. If the gestapo hasn’t jailed you yet for
defending the innocent realistically, you either have to tell me you want it or
go to the website. Emails are free but
snail-mail is free only for PFCs, two grand for others.
Because I believe we should examine every
legitimate means, including force, in our attempt to protect those being
tortured to death, I want to hear from people who’ve been forceful and from
those who defend them. I’d also like to
hear from those who oppose the prolife use of force and call it violence.
Prisoners For Christ:
1. Curell, Benjamin D., Monroe County Jail,
301 N College Ave., Bloomington, IN 47404
2. Evans, Paul Ross 83230-180, FCI, PO Box 1500, El Reno, OK 73036
3. Griffin,
Michael 310249, BRCF, 5914 Jeff Atles Rd., Milton, FL 32583-00000
4. Grady,
Francis 11656-089, USP Terre
Haute, PO Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808
5. Holt,
Gregory 129616 Varner Supermax, PO
Box 600, Grady, AR 71644-0600
6.
Kopp, James 11761-055, USP
Canaan, P.O. Box 300, Waymart, PA 18472
7. Roeder,
Scott 65192 PO Box 2, Lansing,
Kansas 66043
8. Rogers,
Bobby Joe 21292-017, USP
Beaumont, PO Box 26050, Beaumont, TX
77720
9. Rudolph,
Eric 18282-058 US Pen. Max, Box 8500, Florence CO 81226-8500
10. Shannon,
Rachelle 59755-065, FCI Waseca, Unit A,
P.O. Box 1731, Waseca, MN 56093
11. Waagner, Clayton Lee 17258-039, USP, P.O. Box 1000,
Lewisburg PA 17837
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The new Prisoner For Christ is Ben Curell who damaged a mill in Indiana. Here’s Tobra:
Our hero paid a
visit into a babykilling facility in the notso great state of indiana
Our hero let the notso nice babykillers understand
The long held prolifer viewpoint: if you think abortion
is murder act like it!
MR. BENJAMIN D. CURELL is being embraced for his heroic deeds by
prolifers throughout the land
Dandydon: we are throwing a BBQ in his honor.
Frank: good job ole chap
Kathielee: folks, no word yet if his ax come from home depot or
gingerbelle's garage sale.
Howard: i think it was from gingerbelle's sale, Hell that
girl dew provide the necessacities and always has.
Buttercup: unfortunately we have a Judas in the movement. mike (liar, hypocrite & coward) fitcher
and his yadayyada quote is brought to us courtesy of that dashing & debonair
DONALD SPITZ.
All: MR. BENJAMIN D. CURELL we salute yew
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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The late George Tiller’s mill has reopened. Here’s what some killers’
helpers had to say:
The
clinic has been
reopened by Julie Burkhart,
a former colleague of Dr. Tiller's. Militant anti-choicers in the area have responded
in an upsetting, if predictable way: by making the people who work there fear
for their safety.
Kari Ann Rinker, a reproductive rights
activist living in Wichita, reports at RH Reality Check on the efforts to intimidate
Burkhart. One
activist has a restraining order filed against him for picketing her home with
a sign that says, "Where is your church?," a reference to Tiller's
assassination in a church. David Leach of the group Army of God spoke to Dr.
Tiller's murderer, Scott Roeder, and posted the audio of the conversation. He
read his statement on the new clinic to Roeder:
“If someone would shoot the new abortionist
like Scott shot George Tiller back in the Operation Rescue days, people called
him Tiller the Killer, hardly anyone would appreciate it, but the babies. It
will be a blessing to the babies, everyone else will panic. Of all places to
open up a killing office, to reopen the one office in the United States more
notorious for decades than any other is an act of defiance against God and the
last remaining remnants of reverence for human life. It is what the Supreme
Court classifies as “fighting words,” like throwing lard in a Mosque, burning a
cross in a Black neighborhood, or immersing a cross in urine at taxpayers’
expense. It is a reckless act. It is not the act of someone who values her own
safety. It is a gauntlet thrown down, by someone who wants a fight. Of course,
I don’t know if anyone will pick up the gauntlet. But I didn’t know if Scott would act before he did
either.”
Roeder loved it and responded:
“It is a little bit death-defying for someone
to walk back in there. For Julie ‘Darkheart’ to walk back in there and reopen a
murder mill where a man was stopped. It’s almost like putting a target on your
back, saying, ‘Well, let’s see if you can shoot ME!’ I have to go back to what Pastor Mike Bray
said: If 100 abortionists were shot, they would probably go out of business. I
think eight have been shot, so we’ve got 92 to go. Maybe she’ll be number nine.
I don’t know, but she’s kind of painting a target on herself.”
Troy Newman of Operation Rescue is also doing
his part by trying to dig up the identity of the doctor who works for the
clinic, to make it easier to harass and stalk her.
And
here’s what the killers’ helpers on the New York Times editorial board had to
say:
Dangerous and
unconstitutional legislative restrictions, unceasing harassment, threats of
violence and fearful doctors having to hide their identities for
self-protection: this is what it means to be on the front line of trying to
deliver legal and necessary reproductive health care to women in Wichita and
other parts of the country where zealous right-wing politicians and activists
on the political fringe currently hold sway.
Vocal killers’
helpers are one of our greatest assets. Now if more of us could only learn to
follow their lead.
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The
president of NARAL, Ilyse Hogue, includes this paragraph in a recent
fund-raising letter:
We call these back-door
bans TRAP laws, short for “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers.” Like all medical
professionals, abortion providers already comply with important health and
safety regulations. But TRAP laws are something different: they create a costly
and confusing mine-field of additional requirements and regulations not imposed
on other medical providers. Anti-choice politicians pretend that TRAP laws are
about protecting women’s health, but
their real goal is to close down clinics.
That last sentence frightens me – we
anti-choicers want to close down abortuaries! It’s scary the way those killers’ helpers can
see into our hearts!
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Pat Buchanan predicts that the political
success of homosexual activity (like “gay” marriage) will inspire us to fight
back realistically, and he compares it to the battle for civil rights for African-Americans:
Priests and pastors marched for civil
rights. Others preached for civil rights. But if the gay rights agenda is
imposed, we could have priests and pastors preaching not acceptance but
principled rejection. Prelates could be
declaring from pulpits everywhere that the triumph of gay rights is a defeat
for God’s Country, and the new laws are immoral and need neither be respected
nor obeyed.
Too late. If priests and pastors had marched
for and preached and declared from the pulpits everywhere that the imposition
of legalized murder is a defeat for
God’s Country and, therefore, the new laws are immoral and need neither be
respected nor obeyed, then God’s
Country might have emerged victorious. Not now though.
But it’s easy to blame priests and
pastors. If just Catholics had broken
those laws, we would have protected tens of millions of lives. Who do you think will end up in Hell?
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A Times letter writer says this about the Boston bombing:
Alas,
there are those highly harmful few who can find purpose and meaning only
through acts of destruction. No reasoning will penetrate those minds.
I responded: “Few” above should be changed to “many”: on
the same day three older people were murdered in Boston three hundred young
people were too.
Then Neal: Wait, John! How can you possibly equate
the lives of three born people killed illegally with the lives of 300 unborn
people killed legally in Boston? When you impose that kind of reasoning and
logic on reality, you utterly contradict the words of the Supreme Court of the
people of the United States of America.
Don’t you understand that the vast majority of
people on this list, like the vast majority of people in the USA, let the
Supreme Court do their thinking for them, and treat the logic and reasoning of
the Supreme Court as if it was the Word of God. The forefathers of the
majority on this list have already proven to have a will to kill Jesus of Nazareth
for doing the same thing you are doing. How can you expect these current people
to leave you alive for long if you don’t stop contradicting the Laws decreed by
their Supreme Mind?
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Did you read the last entry in the last newsletter,
May 2, by John Brockhoeft? Neal has
issues with it:
Brockhoeft said, "... if there
were an organized viable force of men willing to fight for our country and
defend our land against the New World Order and against our domestic enemies, I
would join that force of men right away..."
What he is saying
to me is clear. He is saying that the New Army of God I advocate forming is not
"an organized viable force of men willing to fight for our
country..."
Any comment I might make would remind you of
what took place in the rabbi’s marriage counseling session:
Wife -- “He’s a terrible husband,” and she lists ten grievances.
Rabbi -- After each grievance, the rabbi says, “You’re right, you’re right, justified, justified.” Then it’s the husband’s turn.
Husband -- “She’s a terrible wife,” and he also lists
ten grievances.
Rabbi --: After each grievance, the rabbi again says,
“You’re right, you’re right, justified, justified.” But this
time the wife is listening; she bursts back into the office.
Wife -- “Rabbi, both of us can’t be right! That’s
terrible counseling! You should be
ashamed of yourself!”
Rabbi -- “You’re right, you’re right, justified,
justified.”
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Dear John, The
true story of Roe v. Wade is that Texas came to the U.S. Supreme Court as a
straw man, with a glum look on its face, hoping the Court would tie its hands
by making all states permit abortion, since Texans are too proud too legalize
child homicide on their own. So the Court gave in by making all states permit
abortion.
But there was a problem. Although the Court was willing to assist states like Texas by requiring voluntary abortion, at the same time it did not want to hinder the abortion effort by placing too strict a limitation on forced abortions. So rather than literally founding Roe on a woman's right to choose, instead Roe was carefully crafted on the foundation of the involuntary abatement authority of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (forced vaccination) and Buck v. Bell (forced sterilization), going so far as to reaffirm the initial decision in Buck v. Bell by abandoning Skinner v. Oklahoma, so women can be forced to abort even due to poverty and for crimes such as drug use.
As the Court puts it at the very heart of Roe: "the abortion decision" (whether to refuse or choose an abortion) cannot be left to "the woman's sole determination" in view of "important state interests" with emphasis on letting states override the decision to refuse an abortion based on the authority of "Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) (vaccination)" and "Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) (sterilization)." See Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), pp. 153-154.
As Justice Marshall explains two months after: The Court has never recognized any "right" to procreate, by which in this context he means the Court has refused to recognize a woman's constitutional right to carry her pregnancy to term, as evidenced by the fact that "the Court reaffirmed its initial decision in Buck v. Bell" when handing down Roe in the first place. See San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973), pp. 100-101.
By initial decision in Buck v. Bell, Justice Marshall means that when it came to abortion the Court in Roe ultimately abandoned Skinner v. Oklahoma. Skinner had modified Buck by prohibiting forced sterilization in arbitrary connection with poverty and crime. But in Roe the Court retraced its steps by disavowing Skinner's applicability to abortion, saying, "The situation therefore is inherently different from...Skinner." See Roe, p. 159. It was in this way that Roe both reserved and expanded forced abortion.
And so the true story of Roe is about pregnancy abatement, with voluntary abortion as the path of least resistance, and with involuntary abortion as the backup plan. Sincerely, Cal
But there was a problem. Although the Court was willing to assist states like Texas by requiring voluntary abortion, at the same time it did not want to hinder the abortion effort by placing too strict a limitation on forced abortions. So rather than literally founding Roe on a woman's right to choose, instead Roe was carefully crafted on the foundation of the involuntary abatement authority of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (forced vaccination) and Buck v. Bell (forced sterilization), going so far as to reaffirm the initial decision in Buck v. Bell by abandoning Skinner v. Oklahoma, so women can be forced to abort even due to poverty and for crimes such as drug use.
As the Court puts it at the very heart of Roe: "the abortion decision" (whether to refuse or choose an abortion) cannot be left to "the woman's sole determination" in view of "important state interests" with emphasis on letting states override the decision to refuse an abortion based on the authority of "Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) (vaccination)" and "Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) (sterilization)." See Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), pp. 153-154.
As Justice Marshall explains two months after: The Court has never recognized any "right" to procreate, by which in this context he means the Court has refused to recognize a woman's constitutional right to carry her pregnancy to term, as evidenced by the fact that "the Court reaffirmed its initial decision in Buck v. Bell" when handing down Roe in the first place. See San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1 (1973), pp. 100-101.
By initial decision in Buck v. Bell, Justice Marshall means that when it came to abortion the Court in Roe ultimately abandoned Skinner v. Oklahoma. Skinner had modified Buck by prohibiting forced sterilization in arbitrary connection with poverty and crime. But in Roe the Court retraced its steps by disavowing Skinner's applicability to abortion, saying, "The situation therefore is inherently different from...Skinner." See Roe, p. 159. It was in this way that Roe both reserved and expanded forced abortion.
And so the true story of Roe is about pregnancy abatement, with voluntary abortion as the path of least resistance, and with involuntary abortion as the backup plan. Sincerely, Cal
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As I arrived at Joel Lebed’s house recently for my monthly prayer vigil,
I heard a dog bark. Then a neighbor appeared:
Him, Can’t you guys coordinate your visits? Your buddy was here last Sunday.
Me, I
know.
Him, The
dog just woke up my daughter from her
nap.
Me, I
can hear her crying.
Him, You’re not accomplishing anything. You’re really annoying us. We’re all on his
side.
Me, Then annoying you is one of our goals.
Him,
Can you at least do it together on one Sunday?
Me, No -- one of the reasons we separated was
to apply more pressure. Now we’re
getting two more prolifers to cover the whole month.
Him, Oh God!
I should have said “trying to get” rather than “getting,” but this is
another indication that prolife presence in a killer’s neighborhood can be
effective. If any of you know of someone in the Philadelphia area
who would help Gerry and me with our prayer vigils, please tell him or her to
call.
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I’d always been kinda anti-Abby
Johnson until Rick Ellis emailed me this:
What
Abby Johnson posted on her page....
This Gosnell trial has really been a sobering experience for me. It is kind of hard to put into words. I look at the testimonies of these workers and I can't help but realize that they are no different from me. They watched babies die and did nothing to intervene...I watched a baby die and did nothing. I often wonder what it will be like when I die and meet Jesus. Yes, I have repented, but I spent 8 years helping to kill defenseless children. What will that feel like when He recounts the deaths of all of those little ones that I took part in. I want to feel anger at Gosnell and those who worked for him, but I can't. I just so desperately want them to repent. I know there are people out there who are angry because of my past life...I know it is hard for many to forgive me. I now have a better understanding of how that can be.
This Gosnell trial has really been a sobering experience for me. It is kind of hard to put into words. I look at the testimonies of these workers and I can't help but realize that they are no different from me. They watched babies die and did nothing to intervene...I watched a baby die and did nothing. I often wonder what it will be like when I die and meet Jesus. Yes, I have repented, but I spent 8 years helping to kill defenseless children. What will that feel like when He recounts the deaths of all of those little ones that I took part in. I want to feel anger at Gosnell and those who worked for him, but I can't. I just so desperately want them to repent. I know there are people out there who are angry because of my past life...I know it is hard for many to forgive me. I now have a better understanding of how that can be.
Now I
am solidly pro-Abby. This is what caused
me to change: “ I look at the
testimonies of these workers and I can't help but realize that they are no
different from me. They watched babies die and did nothing to intervene...I
watched a baby die and did nothing. I often wonder what it will be like when I
die and meet Jesus.”
I’m
pro-Abby because I’m pro-me -- even though I stand near babies under attack
without helping them, and even though my taxes pay for their torturous
deaths. I too “wonder what it will be
like when I die and meet Jesus.”
Two responders Rick included in his email are
like the old me:
1. We should copy and past this to every Gosnell post we can find on face book. Johnson is running scared, and needs to be backed all the way up into a corner where she has to answer questions she has so far refused to answer.
2. ...and Abby Johnson deserves the same penalty as Gosnell. Some one needs to ask Johnson if Gosnell "repents" should he get the same free walk that she demands for herself, and face no further prosecution????
MIZZ Johnson needs to understand, that this
is not about "forgiveness". that is between her and God.1. We should copy and past this to every Gosnell post we can find on face book. Johnson is running scared, and needs to be backed all the way up into a corner where she has to answer questions she has so far refused to answer.
2. ...and Abby Johnson deserves the same penalty as Gosnell. Some one needs to ask Johnson if Gosnell "repents" should he get the same free walk that she demands for herself, and face no further prosecution????
But if she is truly repentant as she now claims, then she will either fess up that her "testimony" is a fraud, or turn states evidence to see that the victims of her confessed crimes [under age girls, sex slaves, and tax payers] are liberated, and get justice.
But Johnson has never been about justice for person's in the womb.
She is about taking advantage of an opportunity to make a living based on what seems to be a fraudulent testimony.
I’d
sure like to hear these folks, and anyone else, respond to my response.
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Dave Leach also believes “we
should examine every legitimate means, including force, in our attempt to
protect those being tortured to death.” Prolifers
attack us for this belief even more vehemently than killers’ helpers do:
A Des Moines
anti-abortion activist has publicly proclaimed that “it will be a blessing to
the babies” if someone shoots the people
who recently reopened a Kansas abortion clinic.
Dave Leach’s comments are being denounced by
the leader of Iowa’s largest anti-abortion group, who says such talk is immoral
and hurts the cause.
Leach
posted the comments this month on
YouTube. His posting includes a recorded phone conversation he had with another
man, whom Leach identifies as abortion opponent Scott Roeder. Roeder is serving
a life prison sentence for the 2009 shooting death of the Wichita clinic’s
then-owner, Dr. George Tiller.
Leach has previously suggested that other men
were justified in killing other abortion providers. He notes in the video that
Tiller’s old clinic was recently reopened by a new abortion agency.
“If someone would shoot the new abortionists,
like Scott shot George Tiller, … hardly anyone will appreciate it but the
babies,” he says. “It will be a blessing to the babies. Everyone else will
panic. Of all places to open up a killing office, to reopen the one office in
the United States more notorious for decades than any other is an act of
defiance against God and the last remaining reverence for human life.”
Leach runs a small music store on Des Moines’
south side and has gained attention for years with his strident opposition to
abortion.
In an interview with The Des Moines Register,
Leach said he would not personally harm any abortion providers.
“I’m 67 years old. I don’t know anything
about guns,” he said. “I think I could accomplish more with words.” He denied
that his comments were meant to encourage anyone to kill abortion providers.
“That’s not exactly a call for that to happen,” he said. “Any reasonable person
looking at that statement would not equate that with a call for action.”
But the leader of Iowa’s largest
anti-abortion group disagreed. Jenifer Bowen, executive director of Iowa Right
to Life, watched the video and was upset by Leach’s words.
“Comments like this don’t feel any different
from a jihadist calling for the death of another person he doesn’t agree with,”
she said.
Bowen said Leach has never been connected to
her group. Stances like his can turn people away from the anti-abortion cause,
she said. She added that her group relies on calm, reasonable discussions to
change the minds of abortion supporters.
Bowen
said she condemned Tiller’s Wichita abortion practice, but she was dismayed by
the doctor’s slaying.
She said
Tiller’s abortion clinic would soon have been put out of business by legal
challenges, but Roeder decided to kill him instead.
“We never would work toward taking his life.
He was a person,” she said of Tiller.
In the YouTube video, the man Leach
identifies as Roeder laughs as Leach talks about the prospect of someone
shooting the new leaders of the Wichita clinic. Then the second man wonders
aloud about the clinic director’s motives. “To walk in there and reopen a
clinic, a murder mill where a man was stopped, it’s almost like putting a
target on your back — saying, ‘Well, let’s see if you can shoot me,’ ” he says.
Then the man quotes a fellow activist, who
predicted that the abortion industry would end if 100 abortionists were shot.
“I think eight have been shot, so we’ve got 92 to go,” the man whom Leach
identified as Roeder says. “Maybe (the Wichita clinic director) will be number
nine. I don’t really know. I’m not sure about that. But she’s kind of painting
a target on her.”
Officials of the clinic, the South Wind
Women’s Center, did not respond to requests for comment. Tarek Rizk, a
spokesman for the national abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America, said
the video was troubling.
“It’s obviously very disturbing to hear these
men discussing what sounds to be a criminal act in such brazen terms,” he said. “We feel the clinic in Wichita is providing a
vital service to women, giving them the tools and opportunities they need to
control their own lives, and obviously we don’t think that is something they
should have their lives threatened for providing.”
University of Iowa law professor Todd Pettys
said the question of whether the men’s comments were constitutionally protected
speech is a gray area. The men didn’t threaten to personally hurt anyone, he
said. Theoretically, their comments
could be taken as incitement to a crime, he said, but incitement usually
involves encouraging someone to immediately break the law.
“I think they do dance up to the line, but
whether they cross the line — I think reasonable judges could disagree,” he
said.
In an interview with the Register, Leach was
asked whether he would be sad if someone killed the people running the Kansas
clinic.
“It would be tragic to have someone have to
die over that,” he replied, “but it’s also tragic that they would open a clinic
and kill more babies.”
Leach said he would prefer that anti-abortion
activists work through the courts to have abortion banned. He said he’s been
offering Roeder legal advice on how to appeal his murder conviction in a way
that they hope could lead to the overturning of the Roe v. Wade ruling, which
legalized abortion.
Local Planned Parenthood officials declined
to comment about Leach.
I want
so much to agree with Jenifer Bowen -- that
stances like Leach’s can turn people away from the anti-abortion cause
and we should instead rely on calm, reasonable discussions to change the minds
of abortion supporters. My domestic
situation would improve and I would have time for my other obsessions, fishing
and hunting.
But when you follow the history of child murder, you realize that
argument is absurd. Satan has planted an
Auschwitz in or near all of our neighborhoods.
After forty years of calm, reasonable discussion, those
murder mills are still operating at
break-neck speed.
Even more absurd: “She
said Tiller’s abortion clinic would soon have been put out of business by legal
challenges.” If Bowen is aware of the Wichita situation,
she could not have said that with a straight face. Oh yes, legal
challenges certainly did lead to the closing of Tiller’s mill, but that
was only because they had failed, and failed again, and would certainly have
continued to fail.
Even prolifers who believe in calm, reasonable discussion still call
abortion murder, and that will eventually move a courageous individual to act
as if it is murder. Prolifers have refused to face this fact. But killers’ helpers know it. That’s why they
want to stop all of us from calling murder murder.
When the killers’ helpers extend legalized murder to include one and two
year olds and anybody over 75, will prolifers still call for calm and
reasonable discussion?
That response does seem absurd now, doesn’t it.
But
that is what the killers’ helpers will call for then, and it’s what all official
national and state prolife policy makers like Jenifer Bowen and 99.99% of us
other prolifers will agree to then.
I’d always thought Sodom and Gomorrah was an exaggeration. What! Five or so people saved out of a nation? No more.
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When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were
working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn't much
bigger than most people's living rooms,
but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God's word.
From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the
nation's largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up
into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.
We're Christians, and we run our business
on Christian principles. I've always said that the first two goals of our
business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to
focus on people more than money. And
that's what we've tried to do. We close early so our employees can see their
families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week's
biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day
of rest.
We believe that it is by God's grace that
Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has
blessed us and our employees. We've not only added jobs in a weak economy,
we've raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees
start at 80% above minimum wage.
But now, our
government threatens to change all of that. A new government healthcare mandate
says that our family business MUST provide what I believe are abortion-causing
drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don't pay for drugs
that might cause abortions, which means that we don't cover emergency contraception,
the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a
life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most
important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run
this company since day one
If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million
PER DAY in government fines. Our government threatens to fine job creators in a
bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that's raised wages
four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its
business according to its beliefs. It's not right.
I know
people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it's the same for everybody. But that's not true. The government has
exempted thousands of companies from
this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won't exempt them for
reasons of religious belief.
So, Hobby Lobby and my family are forced to
make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by
the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this
mandate before it hurts our business. We don't like to go running into court, but
we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the
bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit.
My family has lived
the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great
jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much
more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our
faith and following the law. I say that's a choice no American and no American business
should have to make.
The government cannot force you to follow laws
that go against your fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands
of companies but will not exempt
Christian organizations including the Catholic church.
Since you will not see this in the liberal media,
please pass this on to all your
contacts.
Sincerely,
David Green, CEO and
Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Cathy
Ramey sent this, along with her usual powerful comments:
Please
see the letter . . . from Hobby Lobby CEO; where are all those other
enterprises, churches, seminaries, Christian schools, Christian-owned
businesses...
This is not a time for cowardice. If the "Church" at large were holding to righteousness, the Light would be so bright the media and the government could not mow over the few like Hobby Lobby. . . .
This is not a time for cowardice. If the "Church" at large were holding to righteousness, the Light would be so bright the media and the government could not mow over the few like Hobby Lobby. . . .
Darkness as great
as that which has fallen upon this nation gives us an unparalleled opportunity
to make God's glory distinct against the "justice" of this present
evil age.
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To send money to the federal
Prisoners, those with eight digits after their names, make out a postal money
order to the Prisoner’s name and number. Then send it to Des Moines, Iowa
50947-0001.
Ask the non-feds how they may receive money –
check, money order, etc. It varies by state.
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Receipt of this excellent missive
notwithstanding, if you wish to be excluded from such blessings in the future,
simply advise me.
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