Talk:Operation Rescue/Operation Save America

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1 Religioustolerance.org
2 Accuracy?
3 School campaigns and anti-gay focus
4 Removed from article
5 Dubious

[edit] Religioustolerance.org

This article uses the religioustolerance.org website as either a reference or a link. Please see the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Verifiability/Religioustolerance.org and Wikipedia:Verifiability/Religioustolerance.org as to whether Wikipedia should cite the religioustolerance.org website, jguk 14:09, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Accuracy?

Randall Terry was the founder of Operation Rescue as an organization by that name. 
 Before Randall Terry there was John O'Keefe, a Catholic, who is attributed as being the father of the rescue movement.  
Terry did coin the word "rescue" though.

Isn't the head of Operation Rescue former leader of the KKK? 68.80.241.179 01:38, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Unlikely. Got any evidence for your claim? 69.72.44.132 16:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] School campaigns and anti-gay focus

It needs to be noted, also, that the organization began bringing its abortion-related messages to public high schools in 1997, titled "God Is Going Back To School", primarily in the spring and often publicized as week-long events in which their branches and supporters nationwide were to participate.

Anti-Islam and anti-homosexuality topics have grown in prominence since 2001; they appear to have been brought into the school outreach beginning in 2004.

Recently (April 2006) they have mounted a campaign to ban the newly-formed Gay-Straight Alliance at South Rowan High School, which is just a few miles from their office in Concord NC.

I'll try to come back to these, but if someone else gets to it first, that's fine by me. Steve Boese 11:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed from article

("Operation Rescue" was also the title of a non-profit organization founded in 1981 to rescue Vietnamese refugees. According to its filing for a non-profit exemption from taxes, "Operation Rescue" turned its attention to the POW/MIA issue in the mid-1980s. At the time the POW/MIA rescue efforts were managed by Jack Bailey.

(Direct mailings via Bruce W. Eberle & Associates helped Bailey's "Operation Rescue" group to raise $2.2 million from 1985 to 1995, with 88% being spent on "fund-raising" instead of on "rescue missions. [1]"

(Besides the common use of "Operation Rescue" title, no connection between Jack Bailey and the current Pro-Life group is known.)\

FeloniousMonk 18:03, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dubious

It's argued (anyone got a citation?) that these images are of stillborn or ill neonates, not aborted fetuses. It could be argued that this is a form of propaganda, but obviously the article is not the place for that discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JustADuck (talk • contribs) 17:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)