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Greetings in Christ Jesus’ name!

It cannot be re-iterated frequently enough - Crosstalk America is the finest Christian radio show currently broadcasting.? The board mandated some years ago that Crosstalk was required listening and that spot questioning would take place to strictly enforce this policy. ? That I recall, only two or our hundreds of volunteers failed their quizzes.? On both occasions, they pleaded not to be let go claiming that the board was quibbling over “semantics”.? Bluntly, people who use words such as “semantics” to defend themselves have no place at Shelley The Republican.? Also, as I ponder the events, it occurs to me that both converted to Christianity.? There may be a lesson there.

But that is not the point.

On 8/15/07, Mr. Eliason interviewed Matt Trewhella, the founder of Missionaries To The Preborn.? If you have?never heard Pastor Trewhella speak then I cannot recommend that you listen to this show strongly enough.? I defy any person with a soul to come away from this program and continue their mindless and disgusting support of the slaughter of pre-born children.

One can walk through one’s life with the assumptions one holds blithely unaware that a subtle shift in one’s thinking might net a new and powerful idea.? One can never know where such a wind may blow from.? This is one of the gifts God bestows upon those who faithfully read STR and why I consider it an honor to include myself among those whom God guided to aid Shelley Goodman.? The staff of STR constantly strives to examine a problem from every side, divorcing themselves from prejudice and, thereby, allowing God to work through them.? I bring this up to explain how listening to Pastor Trewhella allowed me to open myself fully to God and find a new way to help raise awareness of child pornography.

After Mr. Eliason opened the show to telephone calls from listeners, a gentleman called up to inquire as to how Pastor Trewhella dealt with the childish furor of the pro-baby killer set to the large-format posters graphically depicting the helpless mangled corpses of innocent children dismembered at the bequest of selfish, whorish women who care more about attending rock concerts than human life.? The gentlemen also mentioned that these ghouls frequently whined about the effect such images could produce on small children.?

The following recounting of Pastor Trewhella’s response is here paraphrased

I don’t have any problem with children seeing these signs.? In fact, they need to see them.? I have eleven kids and when they get to be about three years old my wife and I show them pictures of babies cut into pieces by abortionists.? Their first question is - “What happened to the baby?”? You see, they recognize that poor murdered pre-born not as a mass of tissue for what it is - a child.? We explain in an age appropriate way that there are bad and evil men that kill innocent pre-born child, robbing them of the chance to serve God.? Those pre-borns make it into our family prayers at night.? Like I said, I’ve got eleven children and I don’t see any psychological damage done to any of them.

No psychological damage!? Put that in Freud’s pipe and “smoke it”!? He then continues.

As to the others, let me tell you a story that was told to me.? When the Americans liberated the death camps in Germany, they took every man, women and child to see the horrors done in the name of Hitler.? They said they took the men and women to show them the effect of their complacency.? And they showed the children the carnage so that it would never happen again.? This is the reason that people need to see these disturbing images.? They need it shoved right in their face so that they can see for themselves just how horrible the slaughter of pre-borns is.

Praise Christ Jesus!?

I sat in my office chair weeping.? I am not ashamed to admit this.? Anyone with a soul who would not weep at such words will undoubtedly suffer the fires of Hell.? But in my mourning for the sons and daughters cut down before their first breath of the sweet air of God, a voice of comfort and love whispered inside me, “and what of those who live to suffer a Hell on earth?? What will you do for them?”

I instinctively understood the action God expected from me - to use Pastor Trewhella’s methods to end all child pornography.

To that end, the board of STR plans to launch a new front in the battle to save the souls of our most precious resource.? Our initiative will be called Terminate Eroticism Against Boys And Girls.? The plan, modelled after Missionaries to the Pre-born, is to display large-format posters depicting child pornography in all its venal sinfulness.? Our teams will conduct rallies at targeted sites (daycare centers, Catholic “churches”, Disney movies etc) to inform, educate and mobilize citizens to bring a complete and utter cessation to child pornography.? In addition, we are currently producing fully illustrated pamphlet for parents to share with their children ages 3 and up that explains in an appropriate way what child pornography is and how to avoid it by obeying your parents and the protection that God’s love affords them.

As always, any constructive suggestions that might occur to you will be gratefully considered.

We hope that you will be as excited about this as we are.

Newton Wilcox
Board of Directors
www.shelleytherepublican.com