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TexasTowelie

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Thu Nov 7, 2013, 03:58 PM Nov 2013

Burleson Man Who Tried to Blow Up a Church Now Protesting Abortion at Local High Schools (Graphic)


Jered Ragon is the one on the far right with the goatee.

In its first few weeks of existence, the Burleson chapter of Abolish Human Abortion focused its energies on the time-honored technique of standing outside abortion clinics holding disturbingly graphic signs. The results, as founder Jered Ragon recounts in a series of YouTube dispatches, were less than encouraging. Their first outing, they inadvertently showed up a couple of hours before the clinic opened and ended up seeing only a handful of women enter it, and they seemed to be headed to some type of meeting, not going to abort a fetus.

Traffic was slightly better on the second outing, and they got words of support from several passersby, most notably a rodeo clown, a "doomsday-prepper guy" and a Mennonite, who also gave them apples. Encouraging, but as Ragon tells the camera, "We didn't have anyone turn away," which was what they had hoped.

So, Burleson AHA embarked on a new strategy. Dubbed Project Re-education, it involves standing on the public right-of-way just outside North Texas high schools with the same type of signs they held in front of the abortion clinics. So far, they've hit schools in Crowley, Burleson, Little Elm and Fort Worth.

The group explains its mission on its Facebook page:

People have traditionally referred to counseling outside the abortion "clinics" as being on the "front lines" in this culture of death. Abolitionists disagree.

The abortion "clinic" is the Final Line in the day to day battle but there are many other places where young souls can be reached with the truth, justice, and mercy of God long before they find themselves stumbling to the slaughter.

Chief among these is the public High School.


More at http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/11/burleson_man_who_tried_to_blow.php .
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Burleson Man Who Tried to Blow Up a Church Now Protesting Abortion at Local High Schools (Graphic) (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2013 OP
I don't believe I would want a convicted domestic.... JimboBillyBubbaBob Nov 2013 #1

JimboBillyBubbaBob

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1. I don't believe I would want a convicted domestic....
Thu Nov 7, 2013, 04:02 PM
Nov 2013

...terrorist standing outside my local high school. No good can come of that!

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