Mixed Nuts at Murray State University
Did you know that the Murray State Racers are 2-time NCAA champions in Collegiate Rifle, with 3 additional national championships before Rifle was an NCAA sport?
Not sure what you can do with that information, but when we displayed GAP at Murray State last spring, we took aim at pro-abortion propaganda and we blasted away … in a non-violent way, of course!
Satanic hate, Godly compassion. CBR volunteer Laurice Baddour approached an angry woman who was shouting absurdities and passing out condoms and calendars. Laurice accepted a calendar, which, to her great sadness, listed explicit activities for GAYPRIL. Laurice offered her one of our GAP handouts, and as she looked into the woman’s eyes, she saw that they were full of hate.
Laurice later commented, “That brief encounter catapulted me to the Lord and He spoke His heart, in volumes, to me — His heart of compassion and heartbreak for ones like her lost in hate.”
Prayer is a blessing. As a demonstration of Christian support, a freshman music major came up to CBR’s Jane Bullington and asked, “May I pray for you?”
The victim never has a choice. God also sent a pro-life Christian freshman football player over to the GAP display. James saw his teammates asking CBR’s Joanna Keilson about our comparison of slavery to abortion. They were confused, saying, “The slaves had no choice; the woman does.” James explained how neither the slave nor the child had a choice.
Breaking point at University of Tennessee Knoxville
By Jacqueline Hawkins
In an age of grave injustice, there comes a time in a man’s life where he reaches a breaking point. He reaches a point where he cannot ignore the plight of millions of victims. Where he can no longer pretend that a few happy thoughts covers up for apathy.
“I am pro-life but this is too much!!” the frat boy said. Seeing the pictures upset him so much that his blood pressure seemed to sky rocket. He couldn’t believe the published numbers of abortions performed every year. He couldn’t believe any woman would do this. He couldn’t believe that any of it was real.
He was outraged. He almost loss control. He was a perfect example of many people who have no idea of what actually happens to innocent children. Until he was confronted with the photographic evidence, there’s a good chance that he believed that abortion, while unfortunate, was a safe, legal and rare procedure that removed a blob of tissues that would someday become a cute little baby.
But the pictures forced this young man to reach a breaking point. A point where he could no longer sit comfortably and do nothing. His anger was at first turned towards us, the bearers of the message. That’s a common response, and it shows that the person has a functioning conscience. However, it’s only a matter of time before the anger he felt toward us is turned toward the injustice itself.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
Gems at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
With our double feature at University of Tennessee Knoxville, we picked up several gems. Here are the best and brightest!
No value for life, even his own. He had attempted suicide 3 times. He didn’t value his own life, so he obviously wasn’t going to value preborn children. But CBR volunteer Laurice Baddour shared the Gospel with him and showed him nothing but patience and kindness. Two of his friends came back later to thank Laurice for giving their friend a life-affirming message of hope. Pray that he will take it to heart.
A Jewish Christian gets the picture. Josiah, a junior from Israel, said, “It makes me really sad to see [the pictures]. Don’t stop doing this. People need to see it.”
Shoved off the fence. “I’m more on your side; you’re doing a good job of convincing me!” Kai, an Air Force veteran had heard pro-life arguments, but he wanted to remain neutral. Seeing the pictures made that hard to do.
Sentient cows and dependent college students. Dan agreed that humanity must be the criterion that matters. Sentience can’t be relevant, he said, because “even a cow has sentience.” He started by arguing that children could be killed up until birth because they are dependent. But then he acknowledged “I guess that they are still dependent after birth.” We reminded him that college students are also dependent. He finally admitted, “I have a lot to think about; I may have to reconsider.”
Thank you! Thank you for standing up to bullies with your $upport. Your $upport makes all of this possible. Without your help, we can do nothing and the bullies win!
Commandeering the class at East Tennessee State University
Every now and then, GAP presents opportunities for volunteers to commandeer indoctrination pods also known as college classes. This happens despite the diabolical grip the pod leader has on their pod people.
Respecting women? A male women’s studies teacher brought his class out to rant against GAP. After class, CBR volunteer Bill Boyer approached this teacher and asked when he thinks life begins. The man ignored the question and went straight to the ad hominem, “You don’t have the right to tell a woman what she can do with her body because you could never have a baby.” Bill responded, “I was never a slave owner, so may I not speak against slavery?” The man exploded in a fit of rage.
Just then a local pastor’s wife joined the discussion. This “teacher” launched a cursing verbal assault toward her as well. So much for respecting women.
We’ll take it from here. With this teacher now distracted by his own tirade, CBR volunteer Laurice Baddour addressed his class, most of whom were still standing on the library steps. In her own words:
Holy Fire and Holy Love overcame me, righteous indignation, love, and compassion flooded me, and I took over his class. To my own surprise (!), my mouth opened, and I called out to the female students, loudly enough to overshadow his voice, “Ladies, I love you! You are being lied to by this professor, and you’ve been lied to by our culture.” I immediately corrected each lie, one by one, with truth. I listed the risks of
abortion to their bodies, souls, and relationships. I shared testimonies of some post-abortive campus peers with whom I had connected. …
The female students became angry, loud, and mob-like — I love mobs — but I called out for order and assured them that each one of their comments and questions would be addressed, one student at a time. Immediately the raging lionesses became sweet li’l lambs, and several began to raise their hands, waiting their turn. The others listened. As God once closed the mouths of the lions in the den where Daniel was thrown, so He closed the mouths of the students, and the accuser of the brethren, who was speaking through the mouth of their professor. After our time of questions, answers, and comments, the class disbanded. Several of the students came down the steps and shared their personal stories and concerns with me. It was a victory for truth.
And the professor? Well, you’ll have to ask someone else, because I never heard his voice or saw him again.
Mixed Nuts at East Tennessee State University
The hostility of the Academy toward the Citizenry is omnipresent, as we saw at East Tennessee State (ETSU), where tax-funded employees routinely condemn Christian and conservative students for their beliefs and values.
With indisputable facts and unassailable arguments, GAP is a fantastic way to help students wage ideological warfare. We demonstrate how Christians and conservatives can engage professors and their heavily propagandized classmates with courage and grace.
Dumb blonde. Diana, a pre-med student, told us that the pressure to conform to leftist ideology is oppressive. Her “ethics” professor makes fun of her intelligence and her blonde hair. Note: Only leftist professors may disparage women as dumb blondes.
Pro-choice? This professor says a doctor shouldn’t be allowed to let his beliefs interfere with his “services.” In other words, Diana should be forced to perform abortions or lose her license. How is that “pro-choice”?
An unexpected friend. GAP works on many levels. We of course expose abortion as a horrifying act of violence. But at the same time, we advance the cause of free speech. Moreover, we demonstrate how people on both sides of a contentious debate can respectfully advance their arguments. After speaking with CBR’s Jane Bullington, Noah wrote on his Facebook page:
The conversation was based on mutual respect … We were able to actually “hear” what the other one had to say. My concerns were focused mostly on pro-life people not favoring programs that would make life easier for the born people and their apparent vilification of women who have made this tough decision. Jane talked about the devaluation of human life leading to increased violence and selfishness in our country. She also said we may want the same “ends” for born people, but have different strategies for arriving at that goal. Did we come to the same conclusion? Do I approve of CBR or their tactics? No on both counts. But I made a friend and have a greater appreciation for civil discourse. I am guilty of abrasively engaging in debate and speaking without listening. Today was different and refreshing. So, come talk to these folks rather than yell at them. And I even went back to get a picture with my new pro-life friend.
Thank you for your support! Only through your prayers and financial investment can we take this message where it most needs to go.
ALL Black Lives Matter at the DC Black History Museum
Since the US DOJ sided with CBR in our lawsuit against the Museum of African-American History and Culture, CBR has been displaying ALL Black Lives Matter (ABLM) signs outside the Museum on a regular basis.
Black adolescents constitute a high percentage of the Museum’s visitors, and their future children are most at risk for abortion. African-Americans are 11% of the population, but account for 37% of all abortions.
One member of our target audience, a boy, exclaimed, “Those look like baby arms!” He got it.
A girl said, as she took pictures with her phone, “Gross! Horrible! I can’t look away. I can’t stop looking at it.” She got it, also.
A group of five black boys stared nonstop. Several times, they walked away to do something else, but they always came back to the signs. One day, those boys will be men and they will be much less likely to kill their own children.
Inside the Museum, leftists are promoting a left-wing political agenda. Essentially, it is Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood hiding behind a picture of Martin Luther King. Outside, we are showing African Americans that their supposed benefactors are today killing black children at staggering rates and have suppressed the black vote more effectively than poll taxes, literacy tests, voter ID requirements, and Ku Klux Klan lynchings combined.
For the Pastors: Is abortion only a political issue?
On Day 2 at Western Kentucky University, a female student set up her own table near the GAP display. She was wearing a black robe; she had black hair, black nail polish, black lipstick, and red contact lenses. She set out a good bit of witchcraft paraphernalia on her table and began to cast spells over us. Debbie and CBR volunteer Laurice Baddour began to pray, asking God to keep the GAP team and the campus community protected; they prayed fervently against the kingdom of darkness. Laurice describes what happened next:
I asked for prayer, then I walked over to the table, introduced myself, shared my faith, and asked her and her two friends some questions about their spiritual lives. They were incredibly open — the two with her were atheists. I began to share the great power and love of God for them, but that their sin is separating them from Him, yet He is calling them to repentance and a relationship with Him. I shared the gospel three times with them, each time going deeper.
Amazingly, this lengthy conversation about salvation with a witch and two atheists was one of the most peaceful I have ever had! I had expected great trouble, but instead experienced engagement at such a deep, meaningful level, with no interruptions. Their hearts were so open to listen! I knew that God was doing a great work, and that team members were praying for us. I urged the students to respond to God, made myself available to talk again anytime that afternoon, and hugged them all before leaving their table.
Are you a Christian leader? Are you really sure that abortion is just a political issue? The witches don’t think so. Abortion is a battle of good and evil. Souls are at stake. GAP is not only an opportunity to save lives and fight the culture of death, it is an opportunity to share the Gospel with those who need it most.
Mixed Nuts at Western Kentucky University
Our recent trip to Western Kentucky University (WKU) was our second visit, having been at WKU two years before that.
Changing minds and winning hearts. We had no sooner set up at when Allison walked up and let us know that she had been pro-abortion when we had visited in 2015. She saw the pictures and spoke with CBR volunteer Gene Garrett. She even rode in our Truth Truck and heard the Gospel. After we left, she did more research. As a result of all of this, she changed. She is now pro-life.
“There is none so blind as he who will not see.” That’s what the great philosopher Ray Stevens said. Paul went a little further. He wrote, “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see …” (2 Corinthians 4:4) Zach, a 27-year-old student lamented, “They accuse you guys of talking in circles, but they go in circles and ask you to follow. They have one-dimensional arguments. If you ask “Why?” all they can say is “Because.” I am a believer and outspoken in class. I try to get people to move deeper on their stance, but these folks cannot.”
Hypocrisy. Men can’t speak, except for when they can. One guy was holding a sign, “Men can’t speak on women’s rights.” Apparently, his buddy is excepted. His sign said, “I love abortion.”
Hiding. ABC-13 WBKO ran a story “covering” our Truth Truck driving around town. They said they had received a photo of our GAP display from a student, but it was “too graphic” to show. But why is it “too graphic” to show? Because abortion is an act of violence, and the pro-abort media do not want people to see the truth.
Healing. Debbie Picarello of Deeper Still, a post-abortion ministry which partners with CBR, set up a table next to GAP. She ministered to students who had already been involved in abortion. One student took materials for himself and his former girlfriend — she aborted his child against his will. An older pro-life man told Debbie that he was post-abortive and shared his story with her. Debbie explained that Deeper Still is available for men as well as for women. A female student thanked her for being on campus and commended her for being “brave”.
Compassion. Matthew announced that he would meet with the Counseling Center after GAP to discuss ways they might help those hurting after abortions.
Pro-Life on Campus at Western Kentucky University
Pro-Life on Campus brought GAP to Western Kentucky University for a second time. We went to WKU back in 2015.
We give it a rating of 3 out of 10 moonbats. Most of the students were calm and ready for thoughtful dialogue. Nearby, a witch set up a table to provide the alternative view on abortion.
We also ran our Reproductive Choice Campaign (RCC) truck around campus.
The press coverage related more to the RCC truck, but we’ll take it:
- BGPD: Pro-life group’s planned use of graphic images protected by law
- California pro-life group showing graphic pictures in Bowling Green
Hope and healing at Tennessee Tech
by Debbie Picarello
At Tennessee Tech, Angie (not her real name) wrote a note to her two siblings, both aborted years ago (photo at right).
Angie learned about them when her mother went to work at a CPC, and through that experience, told Angie about the children she had aborted years ago.
Angie was crushed by the news. She had always begged her mom for a sibling. At some point, the siblings were named Paiten and Jesse. Angie has even written letters to them. She looks forward to meeting them in heaven.
I gave Angie a Deeper Still pamphlet.
Just a few days later, a post-abortive woman came to one of our Deeper Still healing retreats. A few weeks after that, this same woman attended a Deeper Still training seminar. We wound up in the same sharing group, and I heard this woman tell her story. It sounded so familiar.
This woman was none other than Angie’s mother!
It was one of the most beautiful God surprises I’ve had to this day! God certainly knows how to connect people! Thank you, CBR supporters, for making this encounter possible! Angie’s Mom will now help other women heal from their abortions!
Debbie Picarello volunteers with CBR and with Deeper Still, a post-abortion healing ministry.
Pro-Life On Campus at Murray State University
Pro-Life on Campus brought GAP back to Murray State University in Kentucky after a long absence. Not many moonbats in that part of Kentucky; we give it a rating of 1 moonbat on our scale of 1 to 10.
Throughout the calm two days, there was only one protester with a “clever” sign that read, “Abortion is fine, but condoms are less expensive and homosexuality is a fine choice too!” However, he was notably respectful and had honest questions about God, the Bible, and politics. Unfortunately, though, he was unable to maintain a thought to its completion, so rational dialogue was difficult.
His inability to complete thoughts (and perhaps think critically) may have lead to these statements he made to the Murray State News:
“I walked by and saw it and I despise the flawed reasoning that is used on these signs … I believe that their imagery especially is deceptive. It’s an attempted emotional appeal. People are allowed to believe what they want, I don’t think I’m changing people’s minds,” he said said. “The most I’ve done is that I’ve gave out a bunch of condoms. So, hey, I might’ve just kept a baby from being aborted, which is more than what these people have been doing all day.”
These would be laughable, except for his encouragement of irresponsible, child-like adults to engage in high-risk behavior.
Press coverage:
Pro-Life on Campus at East Tennessee State University
CBR made another visit to East Tennessee State University (ETSU). A lot more lively this time.
We give it a moonbat rating of 5 out of 10 moonbats, compared with 1.5 out of 10 moonbats on our last visit. Schools with a moderate amount of moonbats keep things interesting.
The trip included a pro-abortion protest group with the usual fare of regurgitated slogans with little-to-no substance on poorly made signs.
Press coverage of our trip includes two articles by the East Tennessean Online. The first article surprisingly included pictures of the whole display with abortion pictures included. Articles:
Pro-Life on Campus: Double Feature at University of Tennessee Knoxville
CBR brought the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), not just once, but twice, in the Spring semester!
UTK earned this exclusive double feature thanks to its unlawful interference with our free-speech rights and those of our student hosts, the UTK Pro-Life Collegians. Encouraged by virulent Trump Derangement Syndrome tactics in other parts of the country, a small group of students held up colorful fabric barriers to block our signs.
We insisted that these banners be removed, but UTK took a cue from other schools that nurture left-wing violence through institutional passivity. They allowed this childish and unlawful behavior to continue. As a result, the bullies thought they had won.
But not so fast! This ain’t our first rodeo, and we have many tools at our disposal.
Immediately, we brought out our hand-held Choice signs and stood in front of the bullies.
Next, we planned our return trip for later that semester. This is exactly what we did at the U at Buffalo in 2014. The Buffalo administration sided with the bullies, so we sued them for civil rights violations. After a year of trying to defend the indefensible, Buffalo got religion and restrained the law-breakers on our return trip.
We informed UTK of our intention to seek a legal remedy if they allowed their students to veto speech rights again. That seemed to do the trick.
On our return trip, the fabric barriers were nowhere to be found. According to rumor, UTK warned the bullies of disciplinary action if they erected their barriers. UTK officials even established a 20-ft buffer zone around the display and prevented any student from holding a sign within that buffer.
Yes, it was some trouble to stand up to bullies, but as Thomas Jefferson (or somebody) said, “Eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty.”
Thank you for standing up to bullies with your $upport! And make no mistake, your $upport makes all of this possible. Without you, the bullies win. Click here and don’t let the bullies win!
Press Coverage:
- Pro-life display appears on Ped Walkway
- Roommates find way to hide pro-life display
- Pro-life display returns to Ped Walkway
- Letter to the Editor: Leave Pedestrian Walkway in peace
Diary of a black pro-lifer — Earning my blackness
by Jacqueline Hawkins
At the Old Dominion University (ODU) GAP, a group of irate black female students berated our newest staff member Joanna Keilson for being white, blatantly airing their putrid racism for all to see.
“You white! You got yo white husband and yo privilege and yo big house!” The only thing they really got right was the color of her skin.
I stepped in, and they turned their anger towards me. Much of what they said was unintelligible; I don’t speak Ebonics very well. However, every now and then, some of the insults came through. There was talk of Trump and my being enslaved.
I was called a “nigga” and a “bitch”. This might seem harsh, but in the black community these words are bandied about frequently, often in friendly terms. People refer to their enemies, acquaintances, and friends this way. They even refer to their children this way.
One of them said, “You’re beautiful. You look like an African queen with your locks, your earrings and your skirt, but you ain’t black! You ain’t black!”
She then became hysterical, a caricature screaming in my face, an unintelligible tirade, complete with wild gestures and facial expressions. Pretty much done with the parody she had morphed into, I moved onto talk with more reasonable students.
But let’s go back to that interesting statement she made in regards to my genetic profile. “You ain’t black.” I’m not? Oh dear. You mean I haven’t earned the color of my skin? Whatever do I have to do to earn my coco brown flesh? Blame white people for everything? See racism in every single aspect of society?
Hmm … let’s narrow this declaration down to the context of the situation, but expand its implication. “You ain’t black” she said, because I was standing behind the barricade with the pictures of dead children, along with my white co-workers.
What do I have to do to earn my blackness? Support the sexual revolution on steroids in the black community, where we mate and breed like animals? Where we see that behavior as normal, going as far as to say that marriage really isn’t for black folks? Mindlessly listen to and applaud music by top black “artists” who promote a life of debauchery in premarital sex, drugs, violence, and the abject objectification of women (particularly black women)?
How can I be truly black? Encourage black women to kill their children at a proportionately higher and faster rate than any other race in the country? Accept the demise of the same black community through the barbaric sacrifice of its innocent children? And then settle for the over 70% of black children who were actually allowed to live to be shot in the foot by being born into illegitimacy? Settle for these children being set up for, at the very least, a childhood fraught with poverty, youth violence on the streets, drugs, and the plethora of problems that arises from daddy issues and broken homes?
Oh, I’m so sorry that I do not support the rampant debauchery in the black community. I’m so sorry that I expect more from and promote and work to return the black community back to the strong Christian entity that it was.
Once upon a time, we had intact families. We carved out lives for ourselves without the help of the government. We were upstanding citizens, even when the country didn’t consider us citizens. We had fathers!
Excuse me for not believing in the racist notion that my thoughts should be assigned to me purely because of the color of my skin. Forgive me for believing that black people should be held to a Christian standard–the standard that our ancestors fought for the freedom to adequately live by.
If this makes me not truly black, then I’ll just have to live with the color of my skin being no more than that–a phenotypic trait.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
Victory: Pro-Life Speech Protected in Our Nation’s Capital
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) has won a major victory for pro-life speech Washington, D.C. From the American Freedom Law Center:
Victory: Pro-Life Speech Protected in Our Nation’s Capital
Washington, D.C. (August 31, 2017) — Late yesterday, the American Freedom Law Center, a national public interest law firm, resolved an important First Amendment case against the federal government in favor of several pro-life demonstrators who were prevented from expressing their pro-life message outside of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. (CBR), a California-based pro-life organization, its executive director, Gregg Cunningham, Reverend Clenard H. Childress, Jr., an African American pastor of a black church in the Newark, New Jersey area, and Jacqueline Hawkins, an African American woman who is the director of minority outreach for CBR. Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins direct the NMAAC project, which was developed by CBR.
The NMAAHC project involves the use of hand-held, photo-mural exhibits that demonstrate the devastation of abortion’s consequences on the African American community. This project also includes the distribution of literature. A principal goal of the project is to raise awareness of the black genocide that is being perpetrated through abortion.
This past February, Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins initiated the NMAAHC project by peacefully standing outside of the museum entrance on the public sidewalk adjacent to Madison Drive with one of the project signs. Mr. Cunningham was present as well.
Shortly after they arrived, Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins were confronted by an NMAAHC official and several armed, uniformed police officers from the Office of Protection Services (OPS) who told them that they could not stand outside the museum with their sign. Reverend Childress responded that this is a public sidewalk. The senior OPS officer warned Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins that if they did not move to a remote location across the street, then he and his fellow officers would physically move them. The OPS officer also confirmed that if they did not move, they would be subject to arrest. Rather than face arrest or physical force, Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins ceased their First Amendment activity and moved per the officer’s order.
This past June, AFLC filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. against NMAAHC, OPS, and several federal officials. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, AFLC attorneys were contacted by an attorney from the Department of Justice who confirmed our clients’ First Amendment rights and who stated that the federal government wanted to settle the case on terms favorable to our clients.
Yesterday, the parties filed a stipulated dismissal in which the federal government formally acknowledged “that the public sidewalks forming the perimeter of the National Museum of African American History and Culture are available for First Amendment activity” and agreed to pay AFLC its attorneys’ fees incurred for having to file the complaint.
Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented:
“There was no question that our clients had a clear right under the First Amendment to engage in their peaceful, non-obstructive free speech activity on the public sidewalks outside of this museum. The government was wrong for denying our clients that right, and they knew it. Fortunately, we were able to correct this injustice by filing a federal lawsuit. Otherwise, there would have been no such acknowledgment and our clients would have been deprived of a fundamental liberty guaranteed by our Constitution.”
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, added:
“In addition to being a gross violation of our clients’ fundamental rights, the actions of the museum officials and their armed security demonstrate the hypocrisy of the left. Progressives claim to be for diversity and tolerance, but if you don’t march in lockstep with their narrative, they use force and the threat of force to shut you down. Here, we were able to use the federal courts to turn that narrative on its head.”