Biggest March in 20 yrs! Now in 40 states! 80k voters signed!
1. Please help get the final signagures needed by 3 p.m. on Thu. 3-18!
2. Please go to the Republican Caucus for signatures & The Resolution!
3. Come to our Rally and Signature Gathering Events: Denver & Springs!
Final Signatures: We're in the final 15-day period to restore the signatures disqualified by the Sec'y of State. Please get a petition, join a signature team if you'd like, and help us get signatures on your own and at special events like the Mar. 13th St. Patty's Day Parade and your Mar. 16th precinct caucus (see below for details). We'll mail you a petition if you call 303-753-9394 or, time is of the essence, you can pick up a petition downtown Denver, in Arvada, the Springs, or Durango.
Republican Caucuses: It's crucial that you go to your precinct caucus because it's a gold mine for personhood signatures, and also you can print out and introduce the following resolution:
Be it resolved that the ________________ County Republican Party supports the passage of an amendment to the Colorado constitution to apply the term "person" to every human being from the beginning of their biological development. (Print out the resolution to bring to your caucus!)
This should be moved for adoption at the time resolutions are voted on at EVERY Precinct Caucus meeting on March 16! (See also add'l caucus info for getting signatures and introducing the resolution!)
This too is as easy as 1-2-3 at your caucus:
1st: Get signatures at the caucus!
2nd: Introduce the above personhood resolution!
3rd: Encourage delegates/candidates to support personhood!
Signature Rallies in Denver and the Springs: We'll meet and then get signatures together! Come out to meet special guest Cal Zastrow, co-founder of Personhood USA, who will encourage us on to victory!
Downtown Denver, Alma Temple, Sat. March 6, 3 – 4 p.m. 1340 Sherman St., Denver, CO 80203
Colorado Springs, Saint Dominic's, Sun. March 7 3 – 5 p.m. 331 Main St., Security, CO 80911
More Rally info is on the Overtime Rallies page at our co-sponsor's site, Personhood Colorado!
Wow! By the grace of God and with your help A LOT is happening! On January 22nd, we had the biggest March for Life we've held in 20 years! And getting Personhood back on the ballot is critical to establishing the credibility of our movement in the eyes of the public and the politicians. So three weeks later we submitted 80,000 signatures to the Secretary of State! Then four days later our co-workers in Mississippi submitted 130,000 signatures to get Personhood on the ballot there! What started in Colorado in 2008 has become a national movement with Personhood amendments, state groups, and legislative efforts now advancing in 40 states! In this last petition period nationwide we obtained about a third of a million signatures! Colorado's Personhood community provided the leadership to re-ignite the fight for the right to life of the unborn, which shockingly, many pro-life organizations have actually opposed for the last 30 years preferring instead to work only to regulate abortion. Now, with the explosion of growth in the Personhood Movement and our nurturing of it, Colorado's financial and human resources are spread thin across the country, including manpower, money, time, and trained leaders. Swift growth is a challenge even for businesses.
Our Colorado Secretary of State has reviewed our 80,000 signatures and determined that we need another 15,500 signatures to make the ballot. Now we've begun the 15-day "Curing Period" and we need you to get signatures in to CRTL or to our amendment co-sponsor Personhood Colorado by March 17th, the day after the Republican caucuses. During these two weeks CRTL and Personhood Colorado, are working to gather the replacement signatures to ensure ballot access! This will force the continued discussion and education that comes with this kind of state-wide opportunity, to help millions of people understand that the right to life comes not from the government (for then it wouldn't be a right), but from God, our Creator! The Scriptures reveal this truth and even our Declaration reminds us that, "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life..."
We have formed the following teams, each with a goal of collecting 500 to 2,000 signatures during the Cure Period. Here's what we're asking you to do. Please pick from one of these: Can you please commit to:
- getting 20 signatures, or
- donating $20 dollars or more!
We need to raise $20,000 for the Cure Period expenses, and your financial help (and/or getting signatures) will go a long way!
Team Name Team Leader Goal Phone
South Metro Doug McBurney 2,000 303-489-9203
Littleton Jo Scott 2,000 303-550-8170
Thornton Brian Enyart 2,000 720-641-7033
Longmont Scott Evans 2,000 303-587-0463
Metro West Bob Enyart 2,000 303-463-7789
Metro East Leslie Hanks 2,000 720-394-8946
Greeley Dennis Hoshiko 2,000 303-753-9394
Durango Dan Anguis 2,000 949-510-8013
Colo Spgs Bob Fortune 2,000 719-930-0841
Ft. Collins Lori Goebel 2,000 970-461-1220
Parker Judy & Tom Morroni 2,000 303-680-9565
Pueblo Dee Waite 1,000 719-547-8435
Estes Park Johanna Gengler 500 970-586-8676
Individual You 20 303-753-9394
The Personhood Movement Will Keep Growing With Your Help! Remember that Jesus said you will know them by their fruit (Matthew 7:16). Colorado's historic 2008 Personhood Amendment was the first such statewide vote in the nation. A year later, pro-lifers introduced Personhood petition drives and are gathering signatures in California, Colorado (again), Florida, Montana, and Mississippi (where Don Wildmon's American Family Association is working hard for Personhood)! The ACLU and Planned Parenthood have sued to temporarily stop signature drives in Nevada, Alaska, and Missouri (where CRTL's attorneys are helping to fight back)! Georgia Right To Life, one of the largest right-to-life groups in the nation, is heading up Personhood efforts in their state! And thirty-one other states are introducing similar bills or developing Personhood efforts, as tracked at PersonhoodUSA.com/map!
How did we do in 2008? Conventional wisdom held that only one out of eight people would vote for a total abortion ban. Yet in our first time on the ballot we received 27% of the vote, more than one in four, in liberal Colorado which elected a pro-abortion governor and a pro-abortion president. And still, we more than doubled that supposed 12% glass ceiling and we earned over 600,000 votes! (That's enough to win an off-year election like we'll have in 2010.) As with campaigns such as gaining the right to vote for women, Personhood will take repeated ballots in various states before we ultimately win this battle. Of slavery, the Holocaust, and abortion, we're now at two down and one to go! When we doubled the supposed maximum vote possible for an all-out abortion ban, that was with all the major "pro-life" Republican candidates opposing our Personhood amendment, and virtually all the national "pro-life" ministries opposing Personhood. But today, the writing is on the wall so we're saying "welcome aboard!"
At last weekend's Conservative Political Action Conference thousands of conservatives voted in their presidential straw poll and anti-personhood Mitt Romney lost badly. Romney won the last three years in a row but recently was widely exposed for authorizing tax-funded late-term "elective" abortion in his own liberal health care reform bill. The only candidate in the top five of CPAC's poll who has endorsed Personhood, Ron Paul, easily won. We're not endorsing Paul, but rather, we thank him for supporting Personhood and we're praying for him, and trying to educate him to realize that human rights trump states' rights, and that not even a "sovereign state" has the right to decriminalize the intentional killing of innocent children. So please pray that Ron Paul takes his new support for Personhood to its logical conclusion and realizes that because children have a God-given right to life that no state and not even a country could ever justly permit the killing of unborn children.
Please Help with Signatures or a Donation to get Personhood Back on the Ballot! Remember that the Lord said that men should "not lose heart" and He gave the example of "a judge who did not fear God nor regard man" but there was a widow constantly seeking justice, however he would not rule for her. Yet because she persisted, the judge eventually said, "Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me" (Luke 18:1-5). Please join us as we look to the Lord Jesus Christ for both the wisdom and the courage to fight to win this political battle! We take courage from Christian leaders like William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer who heroically and to the end fought against National Socialism and slavery.
So please help us! Again, here's what we're asking you to do. Please pick between one of these: Please commit to:
- getting 20 signatures, or
- donating $20 dollars or more!
We need 20,000 signatures and we soberly estimate that we may need $20,000 for the Cure Period expenses. So your financial help (and/or getting signatures) will go a long way! Please help!
For any information you need, or for a blank petition or to donate, please either call CRTL right now at 303-753-9394 (leave a message if necessary), or donate online for the Cure Period! And we'll see you while we're gathering signatures at libraries, in parking lots, and the best places: the March 13th St. Patty's Day Parade (in Ft. Collins, Denver, and Colo. Springs) and at the March 16th caucuses, and at your church!
