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- From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt)
- Subject: Re: Meet Operation Rescue
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193339.26305@wdl.loral.com>
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- Organization: Abiogenesis 4 Less
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:33:39 GMT
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- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- # bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt) writes:
- # |I got word last night through a close friend in a position to receive
- # |such news that Operation Rescue is planning to seige a hundred or so
- # |cities in the middle of January.
- #
- # |He also said that (and this is the part I have trouble believing -- I
- # |can chalk it up to paranoia if its wrong) they plan to branch out to
- # |more overt anti-gay activity. I couldn't get him to be more specific,
- # |but he's promised to get me a copy of the press release.
- #
- # There might be a connection with the Oregon homophobia
- # incident. The people behind the failed anti-gay initiative
- # there are offering to take their bigotry on the road in other
- # states. If they did "so well" in liberal Oregon, they say, they
- # can do better in other states. Their constituency probably has
- # a considerable overlap with OR's.
- #
- # Lance maintains that the Christian fundie anti-abortion movement
- # is not about abortion at all. He thinks it's about polarizing
- # people, about mobilizing a political army, about taking
- # political control of this country. You've got a gang of
- # fundamentalist Christians already organized, who have proved
- # their willingness to break laws for god. Now put 'em to work on
- # other aspects of the rabid right Christian agenda! (Anti-gay
- # laws? Anti-contraception laws? Who knows?)
-
- Heh. Watched Pat Robertson's 700 Club lately? Jeez, these people
- have a weird mindset. How Pat and his weasels managed to spend an
- entire episode warning their flock about the dangers of the pagan
- rituals underlying Halloween celebrations and turn around a month
- later and willfully promote similar rituals in the guise of Christmas
- traditions is quite beyond me.
-
- It does not strike me as being even remotely out of character for
- Operation Rescue, ostensibly an anti-abortion action coalition, to be
- in the business of activism for other religious right causes.
-
- # |Does anyone here on the net know anything about O.R.'s schedule for
- # |January? Is this just an annual revival meeting thing, or are they
- # |planning on coming out to play?
- #
- # If you hear anything, please tell us. I haven't been to any
- # clinic defenses recently, and I'd like to get re-involved if
- # there's a need.
-
- Here's the scoop. I talked to Mojo this morning on the phone, and he
- promises to follow up with something more solid after he talks to his
- source on New Year's Eve.
-
- The rumor is that Operation Rescue sent out a letter to a collection
- of churches in Baltimore announcing that there would be demonstrations
- in a hundred or so cities across the country in the middle of January
- primarily aimed at demonstrating against homosexual activism. Mojo
- says the letter was intercepted by somebody at a gay and lesbian
- rights organization in Baltimore, who told him about it -- and he told
- me.
-
- As you can see from my story, it's a fairly flimsy rumor. About the
- only part of it that I find compelling is the idea that O.R. is
- scheduling something for the middle of January, and it's probably
- going to happen in Washington, D.C., as well as a few other places.
-
- I told Mojo I have posted what I know here and he promises to do what
- he can to get me a copy of the letter if possible. I'd like to get
- the story straight.
-
- If *anybody* has information more reliable than mine on O.R.'s plans
- for the middle of January, I'd really like to know. So would Mojo and
- the rest of his friends and neighbors.
-
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- +---------------------------+ ``Man has not a single right which is
- | J H Woodyatt | the product of anything but might.''
- | bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com | -- Mark Twain
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