- In a recent FOX news interview, Rep. Steve King said
the most effective way to protest federal hate bill S. 909 is to call the
US Senate, particularly the 19 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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- Why don't major religious right groups follow his advice?
They only encourage listeners to use emails, faxes, online petitions, and
form letters-no one recommends simple, old-fashioned, but effective phone
calls! Modern lobbyist theory says most people are too busy, lazy, or timid
to pick up the phone and interact with a staff member in Congress. They
are told to type their names into some electronic media; it salves their
conscience and might do some good.
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- But ask any staffer in Washington if his boss takes such
protest very seriously. He doesn't. Staffers will tell you that a personal
phone call is effective and respected, second only to showing up in person.
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- I deeply appreciate the motive behind the campaign by
Janet Porter and WorldNetDaily to FedEx some 400,000 form letters to the
Senate. But they should know that the impact may not be as great as they
hope. In Congress, non-constituent letters are burned. Yes, federal law
requires senatorial staff to read constituent mail. And, yes, WND has photos
of boxes of letters stacked in the Senate mailroom. Yet, will liberal staffers
sift through all those boxes to find the one that contains a constituent
letter? Dream on. You can be sure that liberal Senators, having caught
on to this strategy, are ordering these boxes automatically returned to
the mailroom, then to be dumped.
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- Why do WND and other new right organizations not follow
the advice of a real expert on the receiving end of legislative protest-Rep.
King? Why don't they simply give out phone numbers of the Senate and names
of Senate Judiciary members? I don't know. There are many things about
the religious right which baffle me.
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- I do know that our NPN poll today shows that calls to
the Senate Judiciary, exactly what King encourages, are declining. At 4
p.m. EDT, the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch, the most outspoken and articulate
Senate Judiciary opponent to the hate bill, told me they had received only
five calls all day. Mine was the sixth.
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- Call the Senate Judiciary Committee and your members
of the Senate at 877-851-6437 toll free or 202-225-3121 toll. Tell them:
"If the Senator votes for the pedophile-protecting hate bill, I and
my friends will never forgive or forget."
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- Watch the dynamic 10-minute educational videos, Hate
Bill Lies: Exposed! and How to Kill the Hate Bills, at <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org
which explains how the hate bill, S.909, ends freedom. Please tell the
offices of members of Congress to watch it! Also at <http://www.truthtellers.org>www.truthtellers.org,
watch our gripping 82-minute documentary <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/watchpikesvideosgoogle.htm>Hate
Laws: Making Criminals of Christians.
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- Let the Anti-Defamation League teach you how they have
saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians, and
spearhead attempts to pass the federal hate crimes bill: <http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp>http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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- TALK SHOW HOSTS: Interview Rev. Ted Pike on this subject.
Call (503) 631-3808.
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- NATIONAL PRAYER NETWORK, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas, OR
97015
- www.truthtellers.org
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