Note: This archive version of the e-newsletter is in ASCII text. To view this in Rich Text Format/HTML (with pictures & links), use the Contact page to send an e-mail to request that edition. Dear Friend, In this Early Edition of InfoQuest*, we'll look at a not-so-Christian holiday, receive a free Microsoft Word attachment letter, and take Action through some very important Action Alerts! CONTENTS: (1) Is Halloween A Christian Holiday? (2) Microsoft Word Attachment (Letter) (3) CBS Attacks Homeschool Families! (4) Online Petition for Terry Schindler Schiavo! (5) Online Petition for Preserving Our Right to Self Defense! (6) AFA of PA's Online Petition for A PA Constitutional Amendment! (7) Prayer Request ==================== ==================== (1) Is Halloween A Christian Holiday? Dear Friend, I implore you to learn about Halloween on the InfoQuest* for Truth Occult page immediately. http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/occult.htm Here are some resources that I HIGHLY recommend: ==================== ==================== (2) Microsoft Word Attachment (Letter) Dear Friend, I have attached a Microsoft Word letter for you to edit/print/sign/send/forward so that, together, we will preserve morality laws in the United States of America. Please read the Action Alert for more details! http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/government.htm#Federal_Marriage_Amendment ==================== ==================== (3) CBS Attacks Homeschool Families! October 14, 2003 Dear HSLDA Members and friends: CBS National News ran a negative homeschooling report last night titled "The Dark Side of Homeschooling" and will run a further report this evening. The reports focus on a handful of child abuse cases during the past 5 to 10 years involving families claiming to be homeschoolers. Last night's segment discussed the murder of Kyle, 13, and Marnie Warren, 19, by their brother Brandon, 14, and his subsequent suicide. The Warren family is from Johnston County North Carolina. To view the CBS story go to: http://www.hslda.org/elink.asp?ID=1139 Missing from the CBS story was that: Social Services had contacted the family eleven times, were well aware of the condition of the home and had been working with the family. However, to any fair-minded reader the story leaves the impression that homeschooling equals child abuse. We are outraged that CBS would ignore the obvious facts and draw the erroneous conclusion that homeschoolers need to be strictly regulated. The story is a shameless attempt to smear an entire community of committed, dedicated parents. The real story is CBS's bias against homeschooling and it is using this distorted story to encourage the regulation of homeschoolers. Please call Viacom (parent company of CBS) and CBS to express your opposition to the biased reporting and smear campaign against homeschooling. Highlight the fact that homeschooling was not the cause of the children's deaths and that you expect CBS to have higher journalistic standards. Viacom President and CEO - Mel Karmazin P - 212-258-6000 CBS Evening News - LA Bureau P - (323) 575-2202 Sincerely, J. Michael Smith HSLDA President The HSLDA E-lert Service is a service of: Home School Legal Defense Association P.O. Box 3000 Purcellville, Virginia 20134 Phone: (540) 338-5600 Fax: (540) 338-2733 Email: info@hslda.org Web: http://www.hslda.org ==================== ==================== (4) Online Petition for Terry Schindler Schiavo! I received this from Randall Terry today! Dear Friend: A tragedy is unfolding in Florida at this very moment, and another major advance for the culture of death looms UNLESS YOU HELP! Beginning today, Oct. 15, Terri Schindler Schiavo, a 39-year-old disabled woman, will be dehydrated and starved to death at the selfish demand of Michael Schiavo, her unfaithful husband. Michael is living with another woman and has fathered a child even though he still is legally married to Terri. He also stands to gain financially from his wife's court-ordered execution, despite evidence her brain injury may have resulted from strangulation. DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN! Sign a petition at ConservativePetitions.com demanding Gov. Jeb Bush do everything in the power of his office to rescue Terri from this unjust, undeserved and unholy plight! Here's the address: http://www.conservativepetitions.com/petitions.php?id=236 ==================== ==================== (5) Online Petition for Preserving Our Right to Self Defense! I received this from Sandy Sasso, President of North Penn Citizens for Life! http://www.conservativealerts.com/101403.htm AOL GO HERE ISSUE: Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) recently introduced legislation to ensure American taxpayers are never forced to fund United Nations gun control schemes. Several of Paul's pro-gun colleagues in the House of Representative have already cosponsored the bill, which prohibits the use of U.S. tax dollars for any UN measures that would infringe upon the 2nd Amendment rights of American citizens. Paul's bill, entitled the "Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act" (HR 3125), recognizes that perhaps the greatest threat to our 2nd Amendment rights comes from global Bureaucrats. The bill cites several examples of UN contempt for both American sovereignty and gun rights. In fact, the United Nations has waged a campaign to undermine Second Amendment rights in America for more than a decade. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on members of the Security Council to address the "easy availability" of small arms and light weapons, by which he means all privately owned firearms. In response, the Security Council released a report calling for a comprehensive program of worldwide gun control, a report that admonishes the U.S. and praises the restrictive gun laws of Red China and France! Meanwhile, this past June the UN held an anti-gun "Week of Action against Small Arms" conference. In fact, French President Jacques Chirac and the socialist president of Brazil, Luiz Lula da Silva, both advocate the imposition of a United Nations TAX on firearms for various utopian purposes. Paul's legislation aims to halt the trend toward global gun laws by withdrawing American funding for UN gun control measures, while reaffirming that the 2nd Amendment is the law of the land within our borders. "It's no surprise that UN bureaucrats want to impose gun control worldwide," Rep. Paul stated. "They don't respect national sovereignty, and they certainly don't care about our Constitution. Congress should make it clear that America will not pay for UN gun control schemes, nor will we allow the disarming of American citizens." ACTION ITEM: Ironically, at the same time the United Nations was working to prohibit Americans from exercising their Second Amendment rights to defend themselves, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was called to investigate the illegal possession of submachine guns by bodyguards to Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. This is ridiculous. Proposals to tax or otherwise limit rights under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution are reprehensible and deserving of condemnation. Go to our site below to send a FREE editable, pre-written message to your Representative, urging him or her to support HR 3125, the "Right to Keep and Bear Arms Act": http://www.conservativealerts.com/101403.htm AOL GO HERE ==================== ==================== (6) AFA of PA's Online Petition for A PA Constitutional Amendment! Note: This is for Pennsylvania citizens only. If you're not a citizen of Pennsylvania, consider hosting a similar online petition for a *state* constitutional amendment. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania is collecting signatures online, to be sent to Pennsylvania legislatures, imploring them to create an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that defines marriage according to God's definition: http://www.afaofpa.org/sign_online.htm Please sign this petition, but in the "street address box," after you type the last line of your address, type "I endorse an amendment only to our state constitution, not to our federal constitution." If you're wondering why I beseech you to do this, I've explained it all here: http://fp.users.fast.net/InfoQuest/government.htm#Federal_Marriage_Amendment ==================== ==================== (7) Prayer Request Please keep my family in your prayers this weekend, for God's hand of protection while traveling (planes, trains, and automobiles!). Thank you!