Stop funding Planned Parenthood

[GregoryPalamas]

Does anyone know if this group is legitimate?

I just received this from a friend. I haven’t donated yet. I want to check it out further. But I did sign the petition.

Carson Lauffer:
This is your Link message.
Please forward the below message to your friends and encourage
them to join with you and Grassfire as we work together to keep
our taxes from funding abortions in America.
I have just signed a national petition to terminate federal funding
for Planned Parenthood and other organizations promoting
abortion.

This is a crucial issue that truly needs your immediate attention.
Please click below for more information:

grassfire.org/121/petition.asp?PID=15976901&NID=1
Mr. Carson Lauffer

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[GregoryPalamas]

Is anyone familiar with this group? The more I look into them the better I like them.

CDL

 

[buffalo]

I have signed many of their online petitions.

What issues does Grassfire.org support?
Grassfire.org’s leadership team holds a strong and unwavering commitment to conservative, pro-family and pro-faith values. These values guide our decision-making process.

Our Grassfire team invests many hours surveying, and monitoring important issues of the day. We strategically address high-impact issues instead of tackling every concern that pops up in the news. We also carefully consider suggestions from team members belonging to our online family. However, before we platform an issue, it must be in agreement with our own moral compass and core values.

How does the “personal impact” feature work?
Our petitions track each participant’s personal impact – expanding your “voice” from one to possibly thousands! This is one of the key features of our service, allowing our team members to actually see how their impact is growing at their own personalized reporting sites and customized home page. It is not uncommon for Grassfire team members to rally thousands of others on key issues.

 

[Dale_M]

Is anyone familiar with this group? The more I look into them the better I like them.

I had never heard of them until you mentioned them in this thread. Here is a bit of what SourceWatch has to say about them:

The Grassfire.org Alliance, a non-profit 501c4, was launched Fall 2000 by the organization’s president Steve Elliott. Grassfire describes itself as “an online conservative issues advocacy organization.” According to its web site, Grassfire states that GrassfirePAC is “Coming Soon–[to] take your impact directly to the key elections in 2004.” [1]

Despite its purported ‘grassroots’ nature, public relations work for the organization is being done by Shirley & Banister Public Affairs (SBPA), a highly connected and long-established public relations firm [4]. The president of SBPA, Craig Shirley, was involved in the production of the infamous Willie Horton advertisement in 1988 [5]

Grassfire is also engaged in online petition campaigns to “Support the President,” “Save Marriage” (Federal Marriage Amendment), “Stop Internet Porn,” “Stand for the Unborn,” “Support the Ten Commandments,” “Support the Pledge” (of Allegiance), as well as a “LetterFire letter campaign that gives citizens an opportunity to personally lobby for an amendment in the ruling to FCC commissioners and their elected officials” regarding the use of the “F-word” on network television. Additionally, Grassfire has another online petition regarding “the President’s controversial ‘temporary worker’ plan” which is “a national 6-point petition to rally 100,000 citizens in 30 days–urging our leaders to put the ‘illegal’ back into illegal immigration and Secure Our Borders!” [8]

sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grassfire.org_Alliance

I dunno… I think internet petitions are worth less than the paper they aren’t printed on. As for ideological organizations which espouse a “conservative” or “liberal” point of view… I guess I don’t have much use for them.

 

[GregoryPalamas]

Dale,

I tend to agree. Nevertheless, if there are ways to end Federal funding to Planned Parenthood I’m all for it. And, like Popes from Pius IX to the present, I’d like to oppose all forms of Socialism. Yet, I don’t trust political action committees. How might we support the Church in its efforts to oppose Planned Parenthood and Socialism?

CDL

 

[1ke]

I believe American Life League’s STOPP organization is the originator of the petition, so you can check with them.

There are a number of organizations that have joined them in their petition to remove funding from PP.

 

[vern_humphrey]

Dale,

I tend to agree. Nevertheless, if there are ways to end Federal funding to Planned Parenthood I’m all for it. And, like Popes from Pius IX to the present, I’d like to oppose all forms of Socialism. Yet, I don’t trust political action committees. How might we support the Church in its efforts to oppose Planned Parenthood and Socialism?

CDL

Political action committes exist to allow us to exercise our First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

 

[buffalo]

From their site

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**Media Inquiries And Information
**Grassfire.org is gaining a national profile as one of the leading advocates of grassroots conservative values. Media coverage to-date has included: FoxNews’ Neil Cavuto, CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck (CNN) Dallas Morning News, Alan Colmes Show, Drudge Report, Michael Reagan, Fox News, Lou Dobbs (CNN), Mike Gallagher Live, KABC (Los Angeles), Miami Herald, Arizona Republic, Sacramento Bee. L.A. Times, Atlanta Constitution, Orlando Sentinel.

 

[banjo]

How might we support the Church in its efforts to oppose Planned Parenthood and Socialism?
CDL

Do the same thing as was done last year over the amnesty issue; flood Congess with e-mails, telephone calls, letters…When enough people decide to get involved and stay involved until the message is gotten and acted upon, Congress will react. If they don’t, vote them out of office. Better yet, don’t vote the pro-abortion, pro-embryonic-stem-cell research people into office to begin with.

 

[vern_humphrey]

I have said it beford, abortion is a Catholic sin. We could have put an end to abortion long ago – had we been willing to stand up for morality.