STOPP Starts New Campaign (Terry Phillips, Citizen Link) A group looking to expose the real agenda behind Planned Parenthood. Stamp Out Planned Parenthood (STOPP) International —an implacable foe of Planned Parenthood—is using the abortion provider's national conference as an occasion to launch a new education campaign. Although Planned Parenthood likes to call itself a healthcare organization, STOPP Executive Director Jim Sedlak said nothing could be further from the truth.

"Planned Parenthood is really an organization that is out there trying to spread its own ideas and philosophies with our money," he explained.

A key component of STOPP's new campaign—kicked off with a prayer vigil outside Planned Parenthood's national conference—lies in that phrase: "our money." David Bereit, the national director of STOPP, said more than a quarter billion dollars of taxpayer money goes to subsidize Planned Parenthood's 250,000 abortions each year.

"Here we are, as taxpayers, funneling $265 million into the coffers of Planned Parenthood," Bereit said, "and at the end of the year, they have net of $35.2 million left over."

Despite that $35 million excess, Planned Parenthood is officially a not-for-profit corporation—a status that makes it eligible for taxpayer funding.

"We would probably have enough votes in the House of Representatives," Sedlak said, "to remove Planned Parenthood funding and even their tax-exempt status."

But in the Senate, with its higher-concentration of pro-abortion lawmakers, Planned Parenthood seems insulated from being defunded. But Bereit said that can be changed by people of conscience and faith.

"It's a matter that the people of God are willing to take their faith," he said, "and finally put it into action and focus efforts."

Help Restore Free Speech To Our Churches (Center for Reclaiming America) A grassroots movement is currently under way to end this IRS stranglehold on our churches and synagogues. In fact, a bill now in Congress, called the "Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act of 2005" (H.R. 235), would restore free speech rights to our churches and religious leaders.

Right now this issue is being hotly debated by members of Congress and could see action in early May. Pastors need freedom of speech and contacting congress to show support is critical now, you can also sign an online petition at http://www.cfra.info/53/petition.asp?PID=8243734&NID=1

On The Homeland Security Front... (Federalist Patriot) Congressional committees are popping up to investigate the distribution of homeland-security funds to the states. Because of a provision that calls for at least three-quarters of a percentage point to be guaranteed to every state, a significant disproportion exists in the distribution of money. For instance, Wyoming receives $37.74 per resident in homeland-security funds, while New York, a proven and much more significant terror target, receives $5.41. No offense to Wyoming, but since buffalo NY has become a key strategic target for al-Qa'ida terror operations, a good dose of common sense needs to be injected into this system.

Proposed Ohio Law To Presume Life If No Living Will (Family Focus) In Ohio state representatives will be introducing legislation that will guarantee, in cases where a dying or incapacitated individual does not have a living will, guardianship would go to a person willing to keep the individual alive; to prevent cases like Terri Schiavo's Florida-based court-imposed dehydration/starvation from happening in Ohio.

QUOTEWORTHY: --------------------------- "The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become." -- President Ronald W. Reagan

An Other Survey For File 13 In an ongoing Judicial Watch probe into the failure of the government to address the illegal immigration problem, the Department of Homeland Security recently committed in writing to provide Judicial Watch with documents relating to a Border Patrol survey showing a dramatic increase in illegal border crossings after President Bush announced the possibility of a “temporary worker” program, which is essentially an amnesty program for illegal immigrants already here. The government promised to release the documents under the Freedom of Information Act by May 6, 2005. The Bush administration shut the survey down once early findings (which were embarrassing to the administration) were reported by the press.

Aliens Shorten U.S. Marine Training Time (Agape Press) ...An immigration reform activist says it is an absolute embarrassment that U.S. Marine combat units had to have their training time shortened recently because their base was overrun by illegal aliens. Virtually every Marine squadron headed to Iraq or Afghanistan receives combat training at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona. But military officials recently told the Boston Globe that illegal aliens have been wandering onto the firing ranges, forcing important training to be shortened. Bureaucrats in Washington, DC, are not allowing the Marines to protect their base -- which encompasses patrolling and being a deterrent. This is the perfect example of just how wacko the whole system has become. "The public information officer at the training base won't even talk to the media. "That just shows you they have nothing [to] say that will be acceptable to the American people

PA Farm Bill Protects Homosexuals (Agape Press) Michael Marcavage of Repent America and several of his fellow activists were arrested last fall for their supposed "ethnic intimidation" while ministering at a public pro-homosexual celebration. The group's attorney says the Pennsylvania legislature improperly amended the Ethnic Intimidation Statute as part of an agriculture bill. "It then passed the amendment ... to the statute without proper notice, while not even passing the original bill," attorney Ted Hoppe says. The result, he adds, is that the public did not receive proper notice of the action and that citizens in the state were charged criminally under an unconstitutional law. Marcavage says it is "remarkable" that legislation designed to protect farm machinery and crops from vandalism "evolved into a law that provides special protections to those who engage in homosexual and other sexually deviant behavior."

Frist Criticized For 'Justice Sunday' Participation (Citizen-Link) Democrats on Capitol Hill are raising a royal ruckus over news that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will appear on the "Justice Sunday" simulcast scheduled for tonight, April 24th. The telecast, featuring Focus on the Family Action Chairman Dr. James Dobson and available online to churches and individuals nationwide, aims to end the filibusters against President Bush's judicial nominees. Democrats are accusing Frist of inappropriately mixing politics and faith.

It's OK for (former Democratic presidential nominee) John Kerry to talk about his service as an altar boy and how faith is important to him, and 'Faith without works is dead,' but it's not OK for Republicans to do it," "People say Frist is pandering to the religious right. I would say more likely he's speaking to his constituents. People who elected him are more likely to be of the religious right than they are of the religious left." Telecast organizers say the controversy is backfiring on the Democrats. "It is outraging many Christians," Pat Trueman of the Family Research Council said. Trueman added that Frist is not deterred by the attacks and will appear Sunday. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Details about tonights "Justice Sunday" telecast can be found online at the Family Research Council Web site. http://www.frc.org

Procter And Gamble Cleans Up Its Act (Family Research Council) Pro-family groups have called off a boycott of goods produced by Procter & Gamble. Nearly 400,000 citizens had pledged to boycott P&G because of their support for homosexual activism. Those monitoring the company's practices have concluded that it has now ended its sponsorship of offensive TV programs and homosexual websites. An executive who promoted the homosexual agenda within the company, and who was given a leave of absence to work for pro-homosexual special rights legislation in Cincinnati, is no longer working for P&G.