March 1997
GOD IS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL!
THE GENTLE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!
From Judge Roy Moore's refusal to remove the Ten Commandments from his Montgomery, Alabama, courtroom to the nation wide "God is Going Back to School" campaign, Christians are returning to the streets to live out their faith. When theology moves from the church house to become biography in the streets, a whole new element comes into play. GOD HIMSELF!
Newspaper reports from around the country have been chronicling your endeavors to bring God back to school. Media pundits are utterly aghast that you would dare to show anything so horrible as the truth! You are the talk of radio talk shows, newspaper polls, TV news reports, news magazines, you name it! It appears that these bastions of First Amendment Rights for every sodomite, porn purveyor, and sleaze producer are now having second thoughts about the First Amendment Rights of those representing Almighty God.
THE TRUTH IS A POWERFUL WEAPON!
We stand amazed at the mighty works of our Lord when we bring the Church of Jesus Christ to the gates of hell. From Spokane to Madison, Chicago to Cleveland, Buffalo to Rochester to Washington D.C., God's people are on the move. From Los Angeles to Denver, San Antonio to New Orleans, Birmingham to Melbourne the Gentle Revolution has begun. Christians in over 120 cities began the massive Gospel assault on our government schools on March 3rd. The results have been nothing less than astounding:
- The one screaming "foul" the loudest is Planned Parenthood.
- Planned Parenthood has become the spokesperson for government schools.
- "The Clinic" Gospel tracts are showing up in Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
- Kids are meeting Christ.
- Babies are being saved.
- ACLU types and school administrators express their belief in the 1st Amendment but "NOT THIS!" "NOT HERE!" "NOT NOW!"
- Police have become our protectors from outraged educators.
- Parents are joining us in the fray.
- Spiritual battle lines are becoming increasingly clear.
- Students are joining us in the streets.
- Schools are abuzz with talk about God, abortion and liberty.
- Students in a government class were taken outside to interview Christians and then write a paper on the First Amendment Rights.
- New cities are being added to our list daily.
- Hell is hemorrhaging and we are praising God!
AN INTRIGUING DEVELOPMENT
In every national debate we have done during our "God is Going Back to School" campaign, Planned Parenthood has always been the one that speaks for the public schools. Surprised?
LIE BEING EXPOSED
The lie is not only being exposed in Judge Moore's courtroom and in the schools of our nation, it is also being exposed in the abortion industry itself. That's right! Ron Fitzsimmons, President of National Coalition of Abortion Providers, confessed he was "lying through his teeth" when he told a national TV audience that the partial birth abortion procedure was rare.
Ron is also the person who called us up the day following Miss Norma's baptism and said, "Congratulations Flip, maybe I will be next." We pray you are Ron!
MARCH 1ST PRESS RELEASE
Operation Rescue National is officially announcing its "God is going back to school" campaign, on Monday, March 3, 1997. Christians from across the nation (120 cities) will be taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the tragic truth about child killing to their local high schools. "Our kids need to know," said the Reverend Flip Benham, Director of Operation Rescue National, "That the choices they make and the actions they take have lasting consequences."
This is not a picket. It is a public proclamation! Christians are heading for the sidewalks in front of public schools to apologize to our nation's children for allowing God to be expelled from schools and banished from the school yard!
"God has been replaced with metal detectors, condoms, drugs, gangs and violence," said the Reverend Flip Benham, Director of Operation Rescue National. "It is our mandate as Christians to bring God back to our public schools, Ten Commandments and all. We've gone to the school boards, we've gone to the legislators, we've gone to the courts - now we're going to the very place where God was expelled in 1962 (Engle v. Vitale).
THE GENTLE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN!"
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Why High Schools?
The high school is where the battle for the hearts and minds of our nation's children is raging.
If Johnny is, after all, just an accidental grouping of atoms and molecules, what difference does it make if he can't read, write, compute or remember? Why can't he have sex whenever he wants it? Why can't he do drugs whenever he wants? Why can't he shoot somebody who has the sneakers he wants? Why can't he take whatever he wants whenever he wants it and expect no one to dare judge him? With a philosophy like this, why should we be surprised that the most violent place in America today, apart from the local abortion mill, is the local high school?
It is precisely this thievery of the destiny and design of our kids by the purveyors of godless public education that we seek to confront at the gates of our local high schools. We are coming to the gates knowing, that once we are there, the gates will be lifted up so that the King of Glory may enter in. "Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless. With God we will gain the victory, and He will trample down our enemies." (Psalms 60:11-12)
Why Graphic Signs?
Our nation's children need to know that the choices they make and the actions they take have lasting consequences.
The pictures we carry provide a pictorial essay and real warning of what horrors befall a culture that turns its back on a Holy God. Life and blessing is ours when we honor God's Law found in the Ten Commandments. This is visibly demonstrated by the picture of a live baby. Contrast this with the graphic pictures of children ripped apart by abortion and you epitomize the cost of moving from the precepts and principles found in God's law.
"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live..." (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Is This Terrorism?
No! The truth brings terror only to those doing wrong. They fear being exposed. When one loses an argument philosophically, scientifically, ethically, and educationally, he resorts to argument "ad hominem" (name calling). Planned Parenthood and its ilk seek to paint all Christians who are living out their faith in the public forum as "wild-eyed, fundamentalist, lunatic, terrorists." "Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?" (Galations 4:23)
Do These Pictures Traumatize Children?
No! Pictures of aborted babies do not traumatize our children. They traumatize adults attempting to deny the horror of abortion!
Our children do not have any problem distinguishing the fact that the child in the picture is a baby and not a "blob of tissue." It is only the children whose parents have not told them the truth about abortion that are traumatized. It is the revelation of having been lied to by parents, teachers, government officials, and society at large, not the pictures, that cause their trauma. The truth, once seen, cannot be unseen. "Then you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free." (John 8:32)
Is This Extreme?
No! This is what parents do when their children are in danger. In fact, if you think this is radical, you haven't seen anything yet! We are not merely looking to bring prayer back into the school room, we are looking to bring God, Himself, back to school - Ten Commandments and all. We are looking to kick Planned Parenthood out and all of its malevolent sex ed. curriculum. We will make no attempt to appear fair and open-minded to the lies of the enemy. We desire only to be true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The gentle revolution has begun!
Keep Pressing the Gates in Jesus Name,
Flip Benham Director
UPCOMING EVENTS:
July 13-19 NATIONAL EVENT (Dayton Ohio) - The battle brewing in Montgomery, Alabama over our Lord's Ten Commandments. The seething cauldron of moral anarchy and violence savaging the public schools of our nation. The increasing tyranny of our Supreme Court. The early signs of repentance and revival moving in our land are reasons why you should be planning to be with us in Dayton.