Talk:Operation Save America

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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)

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)

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. "


 * (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)

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)

No, this is not correct. You can do a basic google image search (or consult many libraries) and find similar/identical images of aborted fetuses mirroring those from operation rescue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.193.57.159 (talk) 06:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Things you might randomly find on the net are considered unreliable unless they are traceable to a reliable source. If and when you find something in a library that documents the source of these photos, please provide a citation. In the meantime the claim that these images are of "aborted fetuses" must be attributed to the individuals making that claim. Mike Doughney (talk) 12:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Merge proposal
The two article should be merged. They are both short, the history one is a bit of an orphan and it is unlikely that there will be a need for the separate articles. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I thoroughly disagree with this proposal. The reason I created History of Operation Rescue was that the original Operation Rescue group is the root of what are now two separate organizations: Operation Save America and Operation Rescue (Kansas).  Yet for many years, the two organizations bore the same name: Operation Rescue.  Only after the organizations went through changes in leadership and location did they split.  Also, former leadership of Operation Rescue National (which would become Operation Save America) have voiced their support for the leadership of Operation Rescue (formerly Operation Rescue West), because apparently OR_west-cum-OR's activities remain closer to the original intent of the group, while Flip Benham (OSA, previously OR) has expanded the purpose of his organization (OSA) to include criticism of homosexuality, pornography, and Islam.  I don't think it makes sense to describe the "history of OR" as pertaining only to OSA, considering that Benham seems to have just taken the baton and run with it.  Whatever404 (talk) 10:55, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Headquarters?
The article states this is a Concord, NC, based organization, but the address in the contact information they offer is in Dallas, TX. The article will be changed to reflect this fact until someone can show otherwise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatswing (talk • contribs) 15:30, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Citations supporting the claim that they are anti-non-Christian religions
I don't know how to edit the article to replace the citation needed with the proper citations. Hopefully someone who edits wikipedia regularly will know how to do this for me:

Ground Zero -- It Starts Here: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/5871014927.html/ (calling Islam "tyrannical bondage", "darkness", "misery", and a result of God's judgment; "We cannot build bridges or dialogue with this murderous false ideology.")

Operation: Come Near to Me: http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/8760014902.html (calling Islam a symptom of a larger problem; "a tyrannical government and the threat of Islam are the horrific fruits that are being produced under our watch")

Angry protesters descend on mosque: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Angry-protesters-descend-on-mosque-606515.php (article speaks for itself: ""Jesus hates Muslims," they screamed at worshippers arriving at the Masjid An-Noor mosque to prepare for the holy month of Ramadan. One protester shoved a placard at a group of young children leaving the mosque. "Murderers," he shouted."; photo caption makes it clear that this was an OSA event)

You can find much more evidence here: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/operation-save-america

If RWW is too partisan for you, just read what they say on their own website: http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/category/islam/

OSA is very clear that they are pro-Christian, pro-Jesus, and anti-everything else--ESPECIALLY Islam.

The citations are abundant.

50.134.103.51 (talk) 02:13, 18 May 2014 (UTC)anon

July 22 2017 Operation message
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