Great article (right here) on the Mississippi Personhood Amendment and why it failed. ~ Flip
The Pro-Life definition has changed.
You will enjoy this great victory in Saginaw written by our good friend and faithful warrior for the souls of men and the lives of preborn babies – Cal Zastrow. Here it is!
Enjoy! ~ Flip
God is raising up Ben Dupre’ of the Foundation of Moral Law, founded by Judge Roy Moore, to help the saints In Rochester, New York, to continue their Gospel proclamation outside abortionist Morris Wortman’s abortion mill. Pastors Gerry Crawford and Mike Warren have been faithful witnesses of Christ for years at this and other abortion mills in their city. Hundreds of children have been saved and countless others have given their hearts to Christ as a result of their ministry.
Please keep them in your prayers. ~ Flip
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Dear Friends,
The following is a press release regarding recent incidents at Morris and Rebecca Wortman’s abortion clinic. Since late summer the Brighton authorities have been harrassing in regard to the use of signs and sound amplification. We have been blessing to have two lawyers helping us with our response; Ben Dupre’ with The Foundation of Moral Law Kevin Johnson a local attorney. Please keep us in prayer as we respond to the action of the town of Brighton. Rev. Mike Warren
Rescue Rochester
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOUNDATION FOR MORAL LAW CALLS ON BRIGHTON, NY POLICE TO STOP HARASSING PRO-LIFE MINISTRIES OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC
MONTGOMERY, AL — The Foundation for Moral Law sent a letter to the Town of Brighton in western New York yesterday, demanding that the Brighton police and officials stop interfering with pro-life ministry on the public sidewalks outside a local abortion clinic. On behalf of Rev. Michael Warren and Gerald Crawford, both of Rescue Rochester, and Bound4Life Rochester, the Foundation told Brighton to “cease and desist” its unconstitutional pattern of targeting multiple pro-life activists in their ministry of prayer and sidewalk counseling.
Judge Roy Moore, President of the Foundation for Moral Law and the former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, noted that the Brighton police should be upholding the law: “Those who believe in abortion never cease to try to restrict any opposition to their anti-life agenda. The Brighton police should be upholding the law and the freedom of people to speak up for the God-given right to life rather than running interference for the abortionist.”
In the letter, the Foundation explains that Brighton police officers have been making unwarranted threats against Rev. Warren and Mr. Crawford for their lawful use of pro-life signs and amplification equipment outside the abortion clinic of Dr. Morris Wortman, at 2020 South Clinton Avenue in the Town of Brighton. Additionally, as if to prove their anti-life bias, Brighton police in September ordered members of the pro-life prayer group Bound4Life Rochester to produce identifying information for simply praying silently on the public sidewalk outside the same clinic.
“Just as unborn children are targeted by the abortionist on the inside, Brighton police have made a habit of targeting pro-life ministry on the public streets outside the abortion mill,” said Foundation attorney Ben DuPré, who along with local New York attorney Kevin Johnson of Klafehn & Heise PLLC, signed the demand letter. “However much Dr. Wortman and officials of Brighton may dislike Rescue Rochester’s and Bound4Life’s message or even mere presence, the Constitution does not permit the force of law to be used to harass and intimidate pro-life ministry in Brighton.”
Reverend Michael Warren of Rescue Rochester stated, “It is tragic that our judical and law enforcement institutions have been so blinded by the bloodguilt of over 50 million children killed by abortion that they are determined to silence a ministry that offers the one safe choice available to abortion minded women. It’s unfortunate that The Brighton Police Department finds itself co-opted by the pro-abortion political machine. By the grace of God we will continue to be a voice for the voiceless at Rochester area abortion mills.”
The letter concluded by demanding from the Town of Brighton written assurances by November 21, 2011, that pro-life speakers will be allowed to freely engage in the expression of their protected speech on the public sidewalks near and adjacent to Dr. Wortman’s abortion clinic.
The Foundation for Moral Law, a national non-profit legal organization located in Montgomery, Alabama, is dedicated to restoring the knowledge of God in law and government through litigation and education relating to moral issues and religious liberty cases.
www.RescueRochester.com A pro-life Gospel ministry in Rochester, NY
New York, to continue their Gospel proclamation outside abortionist Morris Wortman’s abortion mill. Pastors Gerry Crawford and Mike Warren have been faithful witnesses of Christ for years at this and other abortion mills in their city. Hundreds of children have been saved and countless others have given their hearts to Christ as a result of their ministry.
Michael Marcavage, Campaign Director of the Campaign to Stop Stericycle, gives us some incredible evidence of a calloused abortion industry disposing of the remains of children it kills. So reminiscent of the Jewish holocaust as the Nazi regime callously disposed of the remains of Jews, Gypsies, the mentally retarded, and physically handicapped, it murdered.
Astonishing and horrible findings! Michael gives us some things we can all do. Here’s the story. ~ Flip
The pro-life industry, just like the abortion industry, will do all in its power to maintain itself. At least the abortion industry is honest enough to come right out and say that a woman’s right to choose eclipses a child’s right to live. The pro-life industry, on the other hand, says it is doing all it can to save the lives of preborn children and then deliberately sabotages the only piece of legislation that stands forthrightly upon the Word of God declaring all children “Persons” from biological beginnings. Why? Because the Pro-life industry is far more concerned with self-preservation than the preservation of those it has sworn to protect. ~ Flip
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Mississippi’s 2011 Vote Validates Flip’s Claim: For many years Flip Benham has said that abortion is only legal because those who say they are pro-life Christians won’t try to end it. But how do you prove that? Easy: take a statewide vote and see what happens when such pro-life “leaders” oppose personhood. Yes Amendment 26 received 42% of the vote! This doubles the conventional wisdom of the pro-life industry that 15% to 20% of the public would support a total abortion ban. Yet this doubling was achieved even against opposition from the pro-life governor, the Catholic Church, and National Right To Life. During the decades that the 15% claim was used to discourge efforts to fight for personhood, that argument assumed that if the entire pro-life movementcampaigned for the God-given right to life of the child, still, we might only get 20% of the vote. Yet 30% of liberal Colorado and 42% of Mississippi voted to end all child killing! And this is with much OPPOSITION from these pro-life “leaders.” So what would be the result if they actually supported the effort to legally recognize the child from conception? Unless the Roman Catholic Bishops, and pro-life Republican leaders, and the pro-life industry groups, want to claim that combined they have virtually no public influence whatsoever, it is clear that the additional 8% for victory could have come easily if they had courageously campaigned to uphold the sanctity of the child’s life. “Mississippi’s 42% clearly validates Flip Benham’s claim that the only reason that abortion is legal is because ‘pro-lifers’ don’t care to end it,” says American RTL’s director of research Darrell Birkey. “As Flip says, abortion will end in America when those who call themselves pro-life Christians want it to end.”
From: ProlifeProfiles
Here is Rusty’s report on the progress of our court case against the city of Jackson Wyoming. Pastor flew to Cheyenne, Wyoming, to be present at the hearing. ~ Flip
Dear Champion of the Lord and the Preborn,
Pastor and I had the blessing to be at the Wyoming Supreme Court with our wonderful attorney, Jack Edwards. He did a masterful job defending our rights, while dismantling the city of Jackson’s case against us.
It is amazing to consider that Operation Save America did a regional event in Jackson, WY and six months later it is still reverberating throughout this state. It continues to be front page news.
The city of Jackson was so concerned about this case going before the Wyoming Surpeme Court, they sent the top five leaders of their city to observe it. The mayor, city manger, city attorney who argued their case, and LT. Guillam who sought the TRO/injunction against us were present in the court room. Apparently, they are deeply concerned about the outcome of this case. They are either frightened by a lawsuit or intend to use it again to censor the Gospel light that shines upon the darkness of child-killing tolerated in their city.
As most of you know WY is one of the five states that makes up the States of Refuge campaign. Please continue to pray for this vision and mission. We will be going back to Wyoming and it would be a great blessing to see this TRo/injunction defeated in Jesus’ name!
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Wyoming Supreme Court Considers Abortion Case
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – The town of Jackson violated anti-abortion protesters’ rights when it secured a court order prohibiting them from appearing on the town square, a lawyer told the Wyoming Supreme Court on Thursday.
Laywer Jack Edwards, representing the anti-abortion group Operation Save America, argued that it was improper for the town to secure a court order barring activists from appearing within two blocks of the town square in May. The town didn’t notify protesters beforehand that it was seeking the order.
“There are many procedural errors,” Edwards told the court. “To not rule on this would create a blueprint for the squelching of protected speech in the future.”
Audrey Cohen-Davis, lawyer for the town, argued Thursday that it was proper for the town to secure the restraining order from District Judge Timothy Day.
Cohen-Davis said city police feared possible violence if the protesters, who previously had been showing graphic signs of aborted fetuses around Jackson, came together on the town square with about 200 Boy Scouts and their families who were gathering for an annual auction of elk antlers.
“Parents taking their Boy Scouts to the Elkfest event did not expect to have a group subjecting their children to such material,” Cohen-Davis said.
Police arrested two anti-abortion protesters at the event.
Operation Save America, a national group, said it had picked Jackson for its anti-abortion campaign in an effort to make Wyoming the first state in which no doctors would provide abortions. The group targeted Dr. Brent Blue, a family practitioner, whom the group said is the only doctor in the state to offer abortions.
Justice E. James Burke questioned Cohen-Davis closely about the town’s failure to notify Operation Save America before seeking the court order.
Burke noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has said there’s no place in the law for issuing restraining orders without notice that deprive people of their basic freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment unless there’s proof it was impossible to notify them and give them an opportunity to participate in the court hearing.
Cohen-Davis responded that she didn’t want Operation Save America protesters to know who she was. She said Jackson was in a very volatile situation when the protesters were in town.
“Isn’t our system sort of based on both sides having an opportunity to present their position to the court?” Burke asked.
Rusty Thomas of Waco, Texas, is assistant director of operations for Operation Save America. He and other members of the group attended Thursday’s court hearing in Cheyenne.
Speaking after the hearing, Thomas said the group had about 40 or 50 protesters in Jackson for five or six days in May. “We felt it was our duty as Christians to make that challenge,” he said.
Thomas said his group was in close contact with Jackson law enforcement during the protest, but received no advance notice the town was going to court to block its demonstration. “They did not make any attempts to tell us,” he said. “We were set up.”
Thomas said the group wants the Wyoming Supreme Court to issue an order saying what the town did was wrong. “What happens when we go back? And we do intend to go back,” Thomas said. “Are they going to pull this out and go after us in the future?”
The court took the case under advisement and will issue a written decision later.
Our witness in Jackson, Wyoming, as we brought the Gospel of Christ to the state’s only remaining abortionist and abortion mill, is still front page news in Jackson. Can you imagine simple little Christians living out their faith in the streets of a city could create such a news story? Well, yes if Almighty God is in it! Enjoy and here is the link! ~ Flip
Our brother Chet shares his heart and the heart of our heavenly Father in a unique perspective of what happened as the Church of Jesus Christ in Mississippi failed to do what only she can do – storm the gates of hell so that they will not prevail!
Pray and think upon this. ~Flip
From where it first started, tragically the slaughter continues…
Many of you, dear friends and more, have interceded passionately, crying out to God for the personhood efforts here in Mississippi to succeed. All of us “on the ground” want to thank you for doing so faithfully. Surely God is pleased with your cries to heaven on behalf of the least of His. I was not surprised to receive many messages, phone calls, and e-mails this morning after the announcement last night that the smallest and most helpless baby boys and girls in Mississippi would continue to be crushed within their mothers womb. I told Flip that I was grieving both for the babies who will die day after day and also for the church members who welcomed and embraced the enemies’ stratagems. Tens of thousands here drank in every implausible argument to justify their defiance of the Word of God, casting their vote to let the killing continue unabated. “God is not mocked…”
On Monday, Fox news reported accurately our declaration that “It’s always a baby…it’s always been a baby…it will always be a baby and there’s never a good reason to kill an innocent child in the womb.” Still abortion would ultimately not end in Mississippi, where it began first in 1966, due largely to the complicity and/or inaction of the church. So often I heard these words from those naming the name of Jesus, “I’m prolife but this bill confuses me.” “I can’t vote for this because I’ll lose my birth control and IVF will be banned.” Only 48 hours ago I had discovered a verse I’d never seen, Isaiah 59:4 says in the NKJV: “No one calls for justice, Nor does [any] plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity,” and so the reason this evil was “conceived” and iniquity was brought forth is because, rather than choosing His Words of life, they chose to “trust in” empty words or as the NASB translates, “trust in confusion.”
Still many God fearing believers prayed and passed out tens of thousands of pieces of literature denouncing the deceit; in fact, we were privileged to have over 70 friends come here to Mississippi from 14 states join us in the final days. In the end all we could do was to cry out to God and so on election day I invited Ron Duhe, my stalwart 70 year old comrade, to join me in one final day’s intercession. Rising early on Tuesday we drove through all seven southern Mississippi counties that we’d first petitioned in together nearly two years earlier. We determined to pray “on-site with insight” traveling to every polling place we could reach from 7 AM to 7 PM. We believed it was all we had left we could do, and found it to be a liberating and Spirit empowering 12 hours of intercession!
We certainly stumble along the way, even may question the outcome of our labor for Him; still He allows us to finish strong, imparting confidence to go from this place better equipped than ever to fight this good fight of faith. Montana, Nevada, Colorado, Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma and more are before us AND…you are invited to “just show up” on the next battleground. Make no mistake I do not minimize the significant tragedy of this defeat, nor the casualties that will follow, but let these words of William Wilberforce challenge you and me to move forward, pressing tenaciously toward the prize of ending the slaughter:
“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the trade’s wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.”
No King but King Jesus!
Doug Huband is a good friend of mine. He is a great writer and deep theological thinker. He brings what happened in Mississippi yesterday to the fore. He does it by a very short satire.
Note: In the satire, it was the Israelites not the Philistines that were the biggest impediments to the passage of Amendment 26.
~ Flip
Sad…
Philistine-Educated Israelites Vote To Suppress Truth. Philistines Rejoice
In a surprise to many yesterday, the vast majority of Israelites in the land of Mississippi voted down a change to the ruling Philistine’s Constitution. The amendment, which stated in part, “The LORD is God Almighty. His Moral Laws must be obeyed. Among these are: ‘Thou Shalt not Kill the Innocent,’ ” was handily defeated.
Philistines rejoiced at the news of the amendment’s defeat. “Yes! The killings will continue! Let’s party!” exclaimed one Philistine woman. Many Israelites were also relieved. “Our birth-suppression choices would have been limited by this terrible amendment,” sobbed one Israelite husband. “And what about MY RIGHT to life?!” exclaimed an indignant Israelitess. “Sure, everyone knows a unique human life begins at fertilization, but who really cares about that?”
Philistine leaders promised more social welfare programs to the majority Israelites, provided they continue to support the Philistine ruling class. Education is a key component to the Philistine agenda. “Please, by all means, keep sending your children to our schools,” said one Philistine leader. “And don’t listen to your crazy prophets and turn off your Philistine televisions and actually start educating them yourselves. Everyone already knows this would be a foolish waste of your precious time and resources.” He continued, “We taught you and your parents well, and we will continue to give your children the best education that your tribute to us can buy.”
But the Israelite prophets, though reviled and ignored by many of their own people, vowed to continue the fight. “We will never give up the Truth of our God,” one prominent prophet declared as he boldly preached before the Temple of Dagon. “We will never give in to the deception and lies of the Philistines.” Then he lifted his eyes to heaven and said the following, though his words were barely audible, “Father, forgive your people.” Then He cried out, “For they do not yet understand what they have done to YOU!”
Here is Chet’s call for all of us to be in prayer for our brothers and sisters in Mississippi who are storming the gates of hell (abortion) in the strong Name of Jesus. The “Personhood” vote on (Amendment 26) is today.
Pray that God will loose from heaven what already has been loosed in the state of Mississippi. Faith in God’s Word, and God’s Word alone. The Sword of the Spirit has been unsheathed by the saints in Mississippi. Now, Lord God, watch over Your Word to perform it in Jesus’ magnificent Name. ~ Flip
We needed a final days effective strategy. We are not going to be “working” the polls or just “going” to the polls or recruiting folks to “get” to the polls. We encourage many who can to do so. But today, my partner in prayer, Ron Duhe, who first joined me in Mississippi on Jan 23rd 2009, is joining me today to “PRAY THE POLLS.”
We will strive to run this race to the very end today, running from polling place to polling place, from seven AM to seven PM in the seven southern Mississippi Counties we have worked since our arrival. We’ve been privileged to petition together, speak to pastors and churches together, walk the streets together, sing and cry out and rejoice together and we have prayed often together for the shedding on innocent blood to end.
I can’t think of one thing we haven’t done that has been productive and we have been praying all along. But I am not convinced I have prayed enough, so that’s what I must ensure is done on this final day. But not just praying in this Mississippi cottage. Nope, we are going out to pray my favorite way: “Praying ON-SITE with INSIGHT.” Like the murder mills where babies die, these are the last place where Christians and others will enter. Will they choose life or death? I want them to see us praying they will choose life!
So pray for us and please send this to every Mississippian you know.
Jesus is King and we must serve Him!
Chet Gallagher