Summer of Mercy--2011

Summer of Mercy--2011

 

   "In July of 1991, a huge black cloud moved in over Wichita, Kansas.  The people who live in the largest city in the state are used to crashing Midwestern storms… but nothing could have prepared them for the chaos that marched into town.  Without consulting the people of Wichita… the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue had decided to make that town their new, “battlegrounds,” and after arriving these, “good Christians,” set about developing a thunderstorm of emotional turmoil, religious extremism, and total community upheaval. "

 

20 years ago in Wichita Kansas, thousands of Christians descended upon that town because Troy Newman sent out a call to come and peacefully be a witness for life in the summer of 1991. They came to harass and terrorize George Tiller for The Summer of Mercy.

 

Troy Newman is back again here in Germantown Maryland for the new and improved Summer of Mercy which is July 30^th to August 7^th.

 

He did bring with him his senior policy advisor convicted felon Cheryl Sullenger. Her husband, Randall, and she both pled guilty in 1988 to conspiring to blow up the Alvarado Medical Center abortion clinic with a gasoline bomb. She served two years in prison. After her release, she relocated her anti-abortion activities from California to Kansas to Maryland.

 

The kick off rally for the event will be Sunday, July 30, at 7 p.m. at Covenant Life Church, 7501 Muncaster Mill Road, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877. It will feature Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, and Priests for Life, who is an encouraging and powerful advocate for the pre-born.

 

I guess the already-born have been forgotten?

Confirmed speakers include:

• Father Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life. Father Frank A. Pavone (born February 4, 1959) is an American Roman Catholic priest and pro-life activist. He is the national director of Priests for Life. He also serves as the Chairman and Pastoral Director of Rachel's Vineyard. He is the President of the National Prolife Religious Council, an umbrella groups of various Christian denominations working to end abortion. He also serves as the Pastoral Director of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign.

• Joe Scheidler , Director, Pro-life Action League. Joseph M. Scheidler (born 7 September 1927) is a noted American pro-life activist, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League, former Benedictine monk, and named defendant in the NOW v. Scheidler litigation, a 19-year saga which was ultimately resolved in Scheidler's favor by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006. He is known as the "Father of Pro-Life Activism". Scheidler lives in Chicago with his wife Ann, and has seven children and nineteen grandchildren, many of whom are involved in his organization.

• Star Parker, Columnist and President of the Center for Urban Renewal Education, (CURE) Star Parker, an African-American Republican with Tea Party ties and frequent Fox News appearances. Parker made headlines for her personal life story of rising from poverty, drug use and several abortions to eventually find religion, reject welfare, earn a college degree and start her own non-profit organization. Her campaign gained support with endorsements from notable conservatives like former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. As a black female, supporters hoped she would be able to capture normally Democratic votes in the diverse district that encompasses Compton, Carson and Long Beach.

• Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women of America Wendy Wright is a creationist who is president of Concerned Women for America. Her advocacy is for "legislation and international policies that are beneficial to women and families." Her job at the CWfA is "brief[ing] congressional and presidential staff on pro-family issues, and train[ing] grassroots activists."

• Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director, Christian Defense Coalition Patrick J. Mahoney is a nationally known Christian social and political activist, and an ordained minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church.  Reverend Mahoney works in Washington, D.C., and resides in Fredericksburg, Va., with his wife Katie.  They have three grown daughters: Tara, Kaitlin and Dillon.

• Troy Newman, President, Operation Rescue Troy Newman (born 1966) is an pro-life activist. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Newman was adopted as an infant and raised in the Southern California area. He is the president of Operation Rescue, known before 2002 as Operation Rescue West, which is currently based in Wichita, Kansas. According to his bio on the Operation Rescue website, current OR president Troy Newman is responsible for using “innovative new tactics” to close abortion clinics.
While I’d take anything OR says with a big ol’ grain of salt, Newman is responsible for one particularly gruesome tactic: the “Truth Trucks.”

“We are excited at the overwhelming support for this event in the pro-life community. It promises to be a powerful time of prayer and public witness. We encourage all who can to join me and this all-star line-up of pro-life heroes in Germantown from July 30 through August 7 for nine days of standing in the gap for the babies,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

I guess Troy Newman is not the least bit concerned about the already born children that were left behind when George Tiller was murdered.

However they do plan on staying awhile so perhaps I will go and ask them that since neither Cheryl nor Troy will even talk to me on the phone.

Germantown, MD – Operation Rescue and the Maryland Coalition for Life announce that an office space has been placed under lease directly across the parking lot from LeRoy Carhart’s late-term abortion business in Germantown, Maryland

“Locating an office like this across from the most notorious late-term abortionist in the country was a high priority for us. We wanted to do more than just ask women not to abort their babies. We wanted to provide them with practical assistance, spiritual guidance, and true friendship so that abortion would no longer be a consideration. This office will do all of that,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

"The new pro-life center will not be a place where protests and pickets take place, but will focus on helping women and on prayer. However, hundreds of pro-life supporters will continue to maintain a peaceful First Amendment presence on the public sidewalk outside the business park where the abortion business and the pro-life Center are located."

The First Amendment does work both ways as this protest in San Francisco shows.

I do believe we should thank Troy Newman when Obama is elected in 2012.