Posted on 08/05/2013 2:47:03 PM PDT by Kazan
CLEVELAND, August 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In an unprecedented move on July 17th, the National Right to Life Committee (NRTL) chose to support Senator Rob Portman's newly expressed support of gay marriage and to withdraw support from one of the most effective prolife organizations in the country, Cleveland Right to Life (CRTL).
In a letter dated July 17, 2013, the president of National Right to Life, Carol Tobias, informed CRTL President, Molly Smith, that because of their recent addition of support for traditional marriage and the family to its Mission Statement, AND because of CRTL criticism of Senator Portman, that CRTL would no longer be considered an Affiliate of NRTL. "This letter, which was received well after the date on the letter, came without even a phone call or email from the NRTL organization," noted Molly Smith. "In fact, we have become aware that copies of the letter were forwarded to Ohio prolife organizations from Senator Portman's office before I had the opportunity to read it myself," added Smith. CRTL can only surmise from these facts that there was significant coordination between NRTL and Senator Portman's office on this and that the Senator asked for NRTL to take this action against one of the most active and effective local prolife organizations in the country.
"This entire salvo was the result of CRTL adding the marriage/family issue to its Mission Statement recently because the traditional family with a mother and a father is an inherent right of every child," notes Jerry C. Cirino, CRTL Board member. "We know it is not only important to protect the rights of a child to be born...we should also care about the child after they are born," continued Cirino. "This is about supporting the family in America and any politician, including Portman, who supports the break-up of the American family and supports the denial of a mother and father for children has forfeited the right of support and endorsement of the prolife movement, concluded Cirino.
CRTL has noted that since their recent announcement they have received tremendous grassroots support and new financial contributions for their efforts. "We have had expressions of support from politicians around Ohio, many of whom have shown an interest in running against Republicans who do not steadfastly support the family and traditional marriage," noted Smith. She also encouraged other local, state and national groups to contact them for information about the improved prolife mission statement. Other Right to Life, organizations in Ohio are also considering joining CRTL and Lake County Right to Life in modifying their Mission Statements. CRTL has also noted that the organization has never had a direct affiliation with NRTL, only a tiered relationship that is maintained through the state organization, Ohio Right to Life (ORTL) and as CRTL remains an Affiliate in good standing of Ohio Right to Life the national organization's action is puzzling to say the least. CRTL has not changed its focus and will continue the fight for legal protection for all human life especially for the unborn, the family, the elderly and the infirm.
Cleveland Right to Life is an autonomous organization that cooperates with local, state and national organizations to protect and defend all human life from conception till natural death and to work with other Right to Life affiliates around the state to spread the Gospel of Life.
Rob Portman, you backstabbing Judas son of a goat! I will do everything I can to help a primary challenger to you in 2016. We’re going to bury you (politically).
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NRTLC is dead to me.
Wow! Thanks for posting. :(
And so the NRTL commits political suicide, seemingly oblivious to the fact that homosexual activists and their supporters are almost invariably rabid pro-abortionists.
NRTL has just dissed nearly all of their supporters
I get a bit nervous when an organization with a focused mission that I feel strongly about starts expanding into other areas, regardless of overlap or my view on those issues.
It often isn’t much later before a few mgmt changes happen and insufficiently sentient ‘consultants’ start showing up explaining how to ‘expand your donor reach.’
Defending the unborn could soon morph into ‘giving children 3 meals a day in school’ or some other drift and you end up with another vague feel-good institution.
If the NRTLC is jumping in bed with the fag-marriage pervs, they will no longer be getting even a shred of support from me. Can’t trust a group that claims to fight one repugnant evil, yet is willing to compromise with another repugnant evil. Really distressing news.
I understand where you’re coming from, but this unwarranted attack was engineered by Rob Portman. Its good that he’s been fully exposed as a traitor.
“NRTL has just dissed nearly all of their supporters”
I just emailed our local pregnancy center.
Another organization needs to rise up to take NRTL’s place.
So National Right to Life is now pro-SODOMY???
And why would the national organization TRUST Portman?
I think the National organization did the right thing regardless of why they did it. Maybe they should have warned the Cleveland chapter first and given them time to back down from their mission statement expansion, but I don't know enough of the details to know if they were already given sufficient warning.
From the comments on this thread I suppose I should hate the NRA for saying nothing specific about gay "marriage". Maybe the NRA is a bunch of fag-lovers too! /sarc
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NRTL is pro-homo marriage
period
They should be boycotted by conservatives
Interesting, considering this from 2007:
Today in Kansas City Missouri, National Right to Life's board of directors voted to disenfranchise a state chapter, Colorado Right To Life, from the umbrella organization. Two days ago, Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, admitted in a newsletter article and mass email that, "Ending partial-birth abortion... does not save a single human life." An unusually-public feud erupted within the movement after CRLT co-signed a series of open letters to Dr. James Dobson exposing that the Gonzales v Carhart U.S. Supreme Court ruling on partial-birth abortion (PBA) is not even a hollow victory for anti-abortionists.An Open Letter published in the Colorado Springs Telegraph Gazette on May 23 began a barrage of criticism leveled at National Right To Life, Focus on the Family, and other industry groups for fraudulent fundraising in support of the PBA ban....
....Dr. Dobson released his June 2007 Action e-mail on Monday, and on Tuesday, a National RTL committee voted to remove state affiliation from its Colorado Right To Life chapter, CRTL being one of the pro-life organizations which has broken ranks with the movement's larger groups and is exposing the PBA fundraising irregularities....
....Leslie Hanks, V.P. of Colorado Right To Life added, "As a fundraiser, partial-birth abortion has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, but as a way to save lives, it has no authority to save a single child." Discussions of new affiliation are underway between CRTL and another principled pro-life organization fighting for the personhood of the pre-born.
on July 17th, the National Right to Life Committee (NRTL) chose to support Senator Rob Portman's newly expressed support of gay marriage
They SUPPORT it.
The NRA’s efforts are far afield from right to life, IMO. But I’m proud to stand with the Cleveland group on this one. Carol Tobias is a pale imitation of Dr. Jack Willkie and Dr. Mildred Jefferson. As someone who has attended several conventions, I say good-bye to National. Respect for human life cannot exist in a moral vacuum. Bob
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