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Be glad the Truth about abortion is reaching more people

Monday, January 28, 2013, 8:59 pm | Randy Thomasson

I want to thank you if you stood publicly for the lives of innocent babies in the womb this month, or helped others to stand publicly. There were numerous pro-life events in California and our nation, and SaveCalifornia.com urged people who know the Truth to participate.

The fruit of these public demonstrations is they 1) save babies, now and in the future, 2) reinforce moral courage and pro-life values for everyone who participates, 3) and educate many spectators through both earned media, paid media, and new media (the kind we control).

Some are publicly criticizing media outlets that are pro-abortion and refuse to report on pro-life marches, walks, rallies, and news conferences. But I don’t think this complaining does any good.

No, instead, we should be glad whenever the Truth gets into the media. And we should learn how to generate more media so more Truth gets out and more minds are changed.

For example, the Orange County pro-life demonstration on Jan. 22 was covered by TV news channels 2/9, 4, 7, and 11, as well as in the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register. Organizers Bob and Bev Cielnicky worked hard to invite the media, and SaveCalifornia.com was privileged to be their media consultant.

Here’s a good secular news story covering San Diego’s Walk for Life on Jan. 19.

In San Francisco on Saturday, here’s one of the news reports of the 50,000-strong Walk for Life.

And, in Washington, D.C., despite the sparse national big media’s news coverage of the gigantic March for Life on Friday, this good report on Fox News Channel distributed a lot of Truth. So be glad when people who know the Truth work hard to get out the Truth!

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don’t know that abortion is killing.
So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence,
a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

Faye Wattleton, longest reigning president of the largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, in 1997

Show your pro-life colors this month

Thursday, January 10, 2013, 8:41 pm | Randy Thomasson

See these pro-life videos: An unmistakable baby at 9 weeks gestation, “Jane Roe” opposes abortion, “180” movie changes minds on abortion, Gianna Jessen survived being aborted

This January 22 is the 40th anniversary of the unconstitutional Roe v. Wade Supreme Court opinion. This devilish decision legalizing abortion on demand through all 9 months of pregnancy has resulted in the torturous deaths of some 53 million preborn babies in America.

Do you believe it’s wrong to kill innocent human beings? Do you believe a child being born is a miraculous event?

If you’re pro-life, that means you’re in favor of legal protection for preborn babies, and that you vote pro-life and you do pro-life things.

So please, this month of January, remember the babies. Below are just a few of the California pro-life events where you can stand up for those who cannot stand, and speak out for those who cannot speak. Please participate!

San Diego: Saturday, Jan. 19 @ 9 a.m. San Diego Walk for Life

Los Angeles: Saturday, Jan. 19 @ 2 p.m. Youth Rally for Life

Do this at your church meeting: Sunday, Jan. 20, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday
Search for bulletin inserts here

Thousand Oaks: Sunday, Jan. 20 @ 1:30 p.m. “Walk and Pray for Life.” Walk from the south/east corner of Ventu Park and Hillcrest, in Newberry Park to the of Planned Parenthood Thousand Oaks Center an abortion clinic 1200 W. Hillcrest.

Santa Rosa: Sunday, Jan. 20 @ 2 p.m. Rally For Life, Courthouse Square, in downtown Santa Rosa.

Orange County: Tuesday, Jan. 22 @ 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. “A Protest to End Abortion,” outside Planned Parenthood, 700 S. Tustin Ave. in Orange just off the 22 Fwy. Coalition To End Abortion (714-963-4753) says “Bring your own signs, ­ some will be provided” print flyer

Yuba City: Tuesday, Jan. 22 @ 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Prayer vigil (holding pro-life signs) outside Planned Parenthood, 430 Palora Avenue (near 99 and Franklin Ave.) map

San Diego: Tuesday, Jan. 22 @ 4:30 to 6 p.m., Candlelight Vigil

San Bernardino: Tuesday, Jan. 22 @ 6 p.m. “Annual Sanctity of Life Candlelight Prayer Walk.” Starts at San Bernardino Pregnancy Resource, 114 E. Airport Drive, Ste. 104. map

Visalia: Tuesday, Jan. 22 @ 7 p.m., “Roe v Wade 40th Anniversary Memorial Observance”

Oakland: Friday, Jan. 25 @ 10 a.m., Standing Up 4Life In Oakland Walk

San Francisco: Saturday, Jan. 26 @ 12:30 p.m., Walk for Life West Coast (reserve your seat on a bus)

If you know of other reputable pro-life events in California, please send them to SaveCalifornia.com.

More pro-life events in California and the nation, from Calendar for Life

Pro-life Bible verses

Deliver those who are drawn toward death,
And hold back those stumbling to the slaughter.
If you say, “Surely we did not know this,”
Does not He who weighs the hearts consider it?
He who keeps your soul, does He not know it?
And will He not render to each man according to his deeds?

Proverbs 24:11-12 NKJV

Is your child’s school or your church safe? Probably not.

Sunday, December 16, 2012, 2:52 am | Randy Thomasson

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Friday’s shocking massacre of 6- and 7-year-olds — 20 children total — along with 6 adults. All these innocents slaughtered by an evil, demonic, 20-year-old murderer who gained entry to a public elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

You wouldn’t know it from listening to the mainstream media, but criminals don’t usually target people or places where they know people are armed for defense. Instead, the body bags are piling up in “gun free zones.”

In our God-ignoring, dehumanizing culture, I’m afraid we’re going to see more mass murders, like this one planned in Oklahoma but foiled just a few days ago. In schools, in theaters, in church buildings. For people are being increasingly regarded as things. Babies, children, women, men, the elderly. America’s self-centered culture and the hedonistic media messages that people digest from their youth are teaching them that other people are either useful, useless, or in the way, rather than innately precious in God’s sight.

As godlessness rises in society, violent attacks will correspondingly increase in formerly “safe” places. That’s why church shootings are on the rise, as was reported in 2007.

Consider last month in Los Angeles: “For God’s sake, if people going to church aren’t protected, then who is?” asked a nearby business owner, who bolted out of his store when he heard the gunfire and saw the dead man lying on the asphalt, surrounded by loudly grieving parishioners. — Church shooting over graffiti outrages L.A. neighborhood, L.A. Times, Nov. 5, 2012

Anti-crime expert John Lott says to protect people at churches, schools, and theaters, there need to be people inside who are armed and trained to shoot in defense. “There are simply too many possible ways to get into different buildings, as the killer at the Batman movie showed by bringing his weapons through the locked emergency door at the back of the theater,” Lott writes. “To reduce future carnage, the key is to get someone with a gun quickly at the scene. Quick responses not only limit the number of casualties, but reduce the attention these killers garner from committing their crimes. We can’t get rid of gun-free zones soon enough.”

Do you lock the door of your home at night? Do you lock your car doors? Yes, you do. Are you ready to use a gun in self defense at home to protect your family? You need to be. Will anyone protect your children if you send them away to a school, or protect your church congregation, if a crazed gunman decides to shoot up the school or the church building? The honest answer is no — not unless there are armed people there who are trained to shoot down murderous assailants.

We must stop fooling ourselves. To protect ourselves and others in our increasingly violent society, responsible citizens must be armed at home and designated, trained individuals should be armed and ready for an intruder at school campuses and where local churches gather. More schools and local churches are using paid security and putting together a comprehensive security plan. The Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock had their men bring loaded muskets into the congregation house because they knew about possible Indian attacks. We should be as wise and as loving today.

No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
Jesus Christ in Mark 3:27 NKJV

But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:43 NKJV