Before OSA was scheduled to come back to Jackson Hole, WY for our States of Refuge regional event, the citizens led by a pastorette formed a resistance group called Jackson United. Their deceptive slogan is “civility, love, compassion.” Not only is it a deceptive phrase that masks a wolf in sheep’s clothing, it is very limited in its scope and selective in its application. When it comes to babies ripped apart in their mother’s womb and Christians who seek to defend these voiceless, choiceless, defenseless, and fatherless children, these groups need not apply. There will be no such virtues extended to you.

After the first day of activities, there were three incidences of assault. One involved a vehicle, destruction of property, and vandalism. The pastorette created a hotline for those who cannot maintain the facade of civility, love, compassion. She wants them to be able to vent their anger, malice, and murderous spirit that condones child killing and hates those who expose it to their community.

Folks, the battle is raging. It is intense. Satan is full of fury because he knows his time is short. God is shaking the stronghold that rules the city of Jackson. By God’s grace, we will press on this year in the hopes that child murder is eradicated from Wyoming, the church in Jackson Hole is set free from the oppressive spirit of fear, and those who are lost are converted to Christ.

Citations issued after protests

The Kansas-based anti-abortion group Operation Save America displays graphic images of dead fetuses Wednesday on Town Square. The group will be protesting in various locations through Sunday. Photo by Bradly J. Boner/Jackson Hole Daily 

By Emma Breysse, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

May 17, 2012

The first day of Operation Save America’s four-day protest in Jackson was largely peaceful, with only three incidents that resulted in residents receiving citations.

 
A statement released by Teton County spokeswoman Charlotte Reynolds listed one careless driving citation and two for destruction of property.  Reynolds said the citations were “associated with the protests,” and included vandalism of a car, but would not release further details by press time.

Jackson Police Chief Todd Smith, who was keeping an eye on protests Wednesday, said there were “small fires” but characterized the day as uneventful.

Jackson Hole United, a newly formed community group, has been urging citizens to avoid confrontation with the protesters. Some Jackson Hole United members were out Wednesday with signs of their own, not protesting the protesters but urging people to stay away from the OSA demonstrations.

 
Operation Save America, a religion-based anti-abortion group, is in town until Sunday. The group wants Dr. Brent Blue to stop performing abortions. The group is known for using signs featuring images of aborted fetuses. It displayed such signs Wednesday.

Teton County dispatch received several complaints about the protests, but most were resolved without incident.

Protesters will be at the Powderhorn Mall, where Blue has an office, and on Town Square all day while they are here. Police also reported protesters near Jackson Hole Middle School just before school started Wednesday morning.

Police Sgt. Cole Nethercott, the department’s incident commander for the protests, said no protesters went to St. John’s Medical Center on Wednesday.

On the Town Square, a banner depicting aborted fetuses stretched along Cache St. Stand-up signs were set up just inside the antler arch at the intersection of Broadway and Cache. The Town Square demonstration also includes speakers and music.

The signs on the square will be moved slightly for the rest of the visit because of complaints they were blocking pedestrian traffic, according to Reynolds.    

We met and saw a couple drive into Planned Parenthood and attempted to reach them. We saw the medical waste truck drive in. We were there until lunch time and determined to go back at the school to stand on the school side of the road and distribute The Abortion Violation Tract and 180.com DVD’s. The school principal came out accompanied by the Police Resource Office to let us know that the sidewalk was our limit. We were able to converse with a few students and hold the graphic images of aborted babies and bear witness to the truth to the police and the school principal.

The next day we were able to again stand at the gates of the school as the students were coming in. We declared the truth to the students and administrators at Roosevelt High School and the Lincoln High School across town. Here we met two young ladies who needed our witness and God only knows whether they embraced the truth or not.

Cheyenne, WY:

Rev. Mike Warren

Since January 22, 1973, over 60 million children have been killed by abortion in America.  Over 60,000,000 precious gifts, created in the image of Almighty God, sent to bless this nation, are dead.  That’s right!  One third of the generation 39 years old and younger has been “legally” annihilated by a Supreme Court decision called Roe v. Wade.  God calls children a blessing – a gift from Him (Psalm 127).  We have called them a curse.     

We have sown bloodshed in the womb (abortion) and are reaping its horrible harvest in the streets.  Yes, blood is coursing down the corridors of our schools, workplaces, and streets while we look at each other in utter bewilderment wondering what has happened.  Kids are killing their friends in school, teen suicides have risen exponentially, life has been cheapened – murder has become our answer for everything.

Overpopulated? – Kill babies!

Getting too old to live a quality life? – Kill the old!

Down Syndrome? – Kill them in the womb!  90% of all Down Syndrome babies are killed by abortion.

Hold up the local 7-11? – Kill the clerk!

Having trouble with fellow employees or management? – Kill them (Go postal)! 

Friends or family hurt your feelings? – Kill them all!

Got a guilty conscience, feeling sorry for yourself? – Kill yourself?

God put it this way:  “…all who hate me love death.”  Proverbs 8:36.     

When we caste God behind our back, violence and death are soon to follow.  Sow violence in the womb, you will reap violence in the streets.  It is the spiritual law of the harvest.  When we remove God from the hearts of our kids, violence (death) and perversion always fills the void.  When God was expelled from our public schools and banished from the school yard (Engle v. Vitale 1962, Abbington v. Schemp 1963), He was replaced with condoms, drugs, gangs, metal detectors, police, and violence of unprecedented order. 

What can we do?  Invite Him back! 

He promises to come if we will call upon His Name, “If My people who are called by My Name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.”  2 Chronicles 7:14.  

Unfortunately, hundreds maybe thousands of God’s precious children have been sacrificed right here in Jackson Hole – the home of Wyoming’s last free standing abortion mill.  The Church in Jackson, though it should be at war with the abortion industry, has established an awkward peace with it.  Seeking to be a friend of the world and God, it has become an enemy of the cross of Christ.  Though it pleads the case of fatherless to plead it, or to raise money, it refuses to “…plead the case of the fatherless to win it.”  Jeremiah 5:28.

God has not been silent about this.  Believe it or not, He brought us here last year as a gift to you.  You have a malady that is destroying you and your children.  It is called – sin.  We have been sent to expose this sin (abortion) that you might repent and turn to the Great Physician and find healing.  Abortion destroys those who practice it and nations that approve of it.  It is because God loves you, that we are back in Jackson this week. 

But what will you do with God’s gift?  “God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son…”  John 3:16.  God gave us His inexpressible gift, His only begotten Son, “Jesus,” to save us from our sins.  He exposed our sin so that we might be healed.  It felt like condemnation.  So we nailed this judgmental bigot to a cross.  Who gave Him the authority to judge?  We hated Him, yet it was for us that He died.  Jesus laid down His life for you and me.  God gave us His best (the forgiveness of sins) and we gave Him our worst – the cross.  Why?

He exposed our sin in all of its ugliness.  He told us the truth about ourselves.  He was like a mirror confronting us with the truth of what we really were.  He humiliated us with His Truth so He could save us by His grace.  We were faced with a choice.  We could either run to Him and be saved, or break the mirror and remain lost. 

That same choice will be presented to you again this week.  What will it be?  There is no middle ground.     

Jesus said, “… Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”  Matthew 25:40.  There is no more “least of these” than a little child in his mother’s womb who has no voice, no choice, no defense, unless we give him one.  We nailed Jesus to the cross back then, and now we are doing it to Him again by aborting His children.  We have ignored and despised God’s gift – the “least of these,” long enough!  It is time for us to honor His gift in the city of Jackson.

We are humbly asking you to help us to be a voice for these children this week and upcoming year.  When the theology of the church house becomes biography in the streets; when the Word of God becomes flesh at the “gates of hell” – the gates cannot prevail.  The Church in Jackson Hole holds the key to making the state of Wyoming the first abortion free state in America.  What she looses on earth will be loosed from heaven.

We don’t have to wait for an election cycle, the President, the Supreme Court, or the Congress to get it right. God is looking for us to be His gift to rescue those being led away to slaughter. He will take care of the rest.

Do you see what I see?  Do you hear what I hear?  A gift has been given, but only those who have eyes to see – SEE!  Only those who have ears to hear – HEAR!

Please contact us at www.operationsaveamerica.org or call 704-933-3414.

“Abortion will come to an end in the city of Jackson when the Church of Jesus Christ makes up her mind it will come to an end – and not one second sooner.”

Friday, May 04, 2012

By Jake Nichols

JACKSON HOLE, WYO – Round Two of Jackson Hole’s newfound feud with anti-abortion protesters begins officially next Monday and Tuesday when a Midwest group will demonstrate at 990 West Broadway in front of Dr. Brent Blue’s Emerg-A-Care health clinic.

Operation Save America (represented by Spirit One Christian Ministries from Wichita, Kansas) is also planning a return to Jackson timed to coincide with Elk Fest celebrations on the Town Square. Pastor Mark Holick of Spirit One said his group will comply with the restrictions put on their return – namely that the group must not setup their formal display on the Square during the auction and other events held on Saturday. Town officials cannot prevent Spirit One from being present at Elk Fest and distributing literature.

Meanwhile, pushback is building in Jackson. In preparation for the visit, a meeting was held last week at St. John’s Episcopal Church, organized by Reverend Mary Erickson. The gathering gave birth to a Facebook movement called Jackson Hole United which was launched with the help of Melissa Thomasma. The open group currently boasts 1,744 members touting the tagline: “Civility, Compassion, Love.” They will distribute pro-Jackson swag Saturday from noon until 2 p.m. Buttons, stickers, signs and t-shirts (available at Wyoming Outfitters) have been made up and members have been coached on how to react when confronted by missionaries – an “ignoring with intentionality” approach.

Fallout from the protests, which have not yet taken place, includes the Grand Teton Council of Boy Scouts of America and a local Republican Party member who has helped OSA organize in Jackson.

A local BSA leader confirmed to JH Weeklythat up to 70 percent of the Scouts would not be attending Elk Fest this year because of OSA’s involvement. Many parents of the younger Boy Scouts have contacted BSA leaders to say they will not let their kids attend the annual festivities on Saturday, May 19, out of fear they would be exposed to graphic photographs of aborted fetuses.

Jeremy Aughenbaugh, who is vice-chair of the Teton County Republican Party, said he has received numerous demands that he resign from his post. Facebook rhetoric on Jackson Hole United’s page is spewing venom toward Aughenbaugh.

One member posted: “Jeremy Aughenbaugh, the current Teton County Republican Party VICE CHAIRMAN, was and still is responsible for inviting the OSA to Jackson … I believe it’s time to turn up the pressure on those who think they can just lurk in the shadows without being noticed and brought into the fray.”

“I am all for going after Aughenbaugh and others don’t get me wrong, but not now,” posted another.

Aughenbaugh has made it clear from the beginning that his involvement with the pro-life group has nothing to do with the local GOP.

“I am a Christian, I love Jesus, and don’t want babies to be aborted. I support what they do,” Aughenbaugh said. “But I did not invite them. They do not stay with me. They would have come with or without my help. I tried to keep my name out of it for the sake of the Republican Party. Now that I have been dragged into it, I want everyone to know my involvement with OSA has nothing to do with the Republican Party in any way. This is me acting on my own as a Christian.”

The contentious return of OSA, in combination with another group’s arrival next week, prompted the Town of Jackson to issue a press release Tuesday urging citizens to respect the rights of the demonstrators. Police have been going door-to-door, warning merchants in the vicinity of Emerg-A-Care that there will be a potential disruption to business-as-usual when the protesters arrive.

Pam Shea, superintendent of Teton County School District No. 1, also issued a press release midday Friday: “It is anticipated that one or both groups may be protesting on the public sidewalks near school district property. Due to the disruption of the educational process caused by Operation Save America last year, TCSD #1 has contacted the groups to inform them that they are not allowed to protest on school district property and to specifically request that they refrain from using loud speakers or impeding students’ access to and from school.”

Missionaries to the Preborn (www.missionariestopreborn.com) plan to campaign May 7 and 8 in Jackson as part of their States of Refuge Tour. The pro-life group from Milwaukee, Wisconsin uses graphic photographs and bullhorns – methods which have bristled Jackson Hole locals in the past. The 50-member group just left Bismarck, North Dakota, on their way now to Jackson.

OSA has published an open letter to Jackson, Wyoming. It will appear as an ad in local newspapers. JH Weeklyhas received a copy in advance. Excerpts include the following:

“Your community perceived us as an enemy, because we dared to reveal the truth concerning the sin of abortion. The city was so offended by this ‘revolutionary act,’ that we won the dubious distinction of being ‘the worst thing to happen in Jackson, Wyoming, in 2011 [a reference to JH Weekly’sReaders’ Poll Best Of issue].’”

“We all know what caused the harsh reaction. It centered on the graphic pictures. Sadly, you were more offended by these pictures than the fact that this abomination was actually taking place in your city at the hand of abortionist Brent Blue. If something is so horrible that we cannot look upon it, perhaps we ought to stop doing it.

“Why do we show these terrible pictures? Know that we derive no delight in holding these signs. The reproach for exposing the unfruitful works of darkness is great (Ephesians 5:11). We do it out of love for God and for His precious preborn children who have no voice, no choice, and are unjustly being sentenced to death.”

The entire letter can be read at: http://statesofrefuge.org/2012/04/open-letter-to-jackson-wyoming/. OSA representatives will be in Jackson May 16 through 20. At 990 West Broadway, the ‘Y’ intersection of Highway 22 and Broadway, and on the Town Square’s west side with a 10’ by 80’ display. They will be staying at the Virginian.

By NICK SMITH | Bismarck Tribune BismarckTribune.com | Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2012 4:10 pm 

P.O. Box 3126

Waco, TX 76707

Email: mail@statesofrefuge.org

Website: www.statesofrefuge.org

Dear Honorable Civil Servant,

The Lord richly bless you! A few months ago Operation Save America sent a letter of introduction announcing our new national campaign called, States of Refuge. Each state representative from Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming received this communication. Why just these five states? All these states have one powerful connection in common. There is just one death camp (abortion mill) remaining defiling our land. This represents the abortion industry and the American holocaust it spawned at their weakest point. It also represents the greatest opportunity to cleanse this evil from our land, one state at a time.

Our first letter addressed civil government’s sacred trust, which is to protect life, liberty, property, and stop the shedding of innocent blood. Abortion violates this sacred trust and denies the primary purpose for civil magistrates. This letter is to highlight one of the major goals as we move forward to fulfill the mission of States of Refuge campaign. It centers on a document, which is entitled, The Emancipation Proclamation for the Preborn Child. You will find a copy of this document enclosed. As you read through this letter and view the document, we pray you will recognize its significance. We would ask that you promote this document in your state and sign it yourself. It is a prophetic declaration in nature, but also deeply rooted in history.

In Genesis 3:15, the Word of God reveals a cosmic war. It is a conflict that rages between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. This war has been chronicled through the pages of Holy Scripture and the bloody history of mankind to the present day. It is a war between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and error, light and darkness, justice and injustice, tyranny and freedom.

Though the war remains, the battle front changes in each generation. America’s history bears witness to this truth. Our Pilgrim Forefathers suffered great hardships by taking a hazardous journey across the Atlantic. A great storm arose and blew them off course. They arrived at Plymouth, MA and dared not step off the ship until they crafted and signed the Mayflower Compact. “IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN…Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith,” they established one of the first American “civil Body Politick” on these blessed shores. They suffered persecution, deprivation, and unimaginable hardships. They did it anyway! They signed their names on the Mayflower Compact and changed the world. 

As the chains of tyranny were being forged by England, our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Fifty six brave men signed the Declaration of Independence, which enshrined these immortal words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” By signing this document, they essentially signed their death warrant. They did it anyways! A city on a hill and a light to the nations emerged as liberty was proclaimed throughout the land.

Years later, America became embroiled in another great struggle, the Civil War. God used the legal issue, state’s rights vs. federal power, to judge our nation over the moral issue of slavery. The horrific bloodbath that ensued gave rise to serious doubts that our nation would survive. In his famous Gettysburg address, President Abraham Lincoln profoundly declared, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 

To ensure our nation did endure, different Christian denominations sent seventy nine official condemnations of slavery to Washington DC. Three thousand fifty New England clergy men added their signatures to a 200 foot long letter demanding President Lincoln let the slaves go free. Eventually, the President put his signature to the Emancipation Proclamation, which dramatically changed the fortunes of that cruel war and our union was preserved.

In our day, Americans wonder once again can our nation long endure. Good has become evil and evil, good. Evil has been codified into law. We suffer from moral rot from within and terroristic threats from without. Our government increases its power and control as our liberties fade. 

Our God-fearing, liberty-loving ancestors have run their lap of the race. They put their names, lives, fortunes, and sacred honor on the line to right, wrongs, to end injustices, to secure a future and a hope for their posterity. It is our turn now! In the name of all you hold dear: PLEASE SIGN THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FOR THE PREBORN CHILD!

IN KING JESUS’ SERVICE,

Rev. Flip Benham, National Director, Operation Save America

Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas, Assistant Director, Operation Save America

If we cannot stand to see it, why do we tolerate it?

Open Letter to Jackson Hole, Wyoming

 “Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth (Galatians 4:16)?”

“In a time of universal deceit―telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”  These are the words of George Orwell.  Long before Orwell, however, the Apostle Paul brought this thought to the fore by asking it this way, “Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?”  Galatians 4:16.   Paul loved the church in Galatia but she was sliding into a deceptive lie (sin) that threatened her very existence.  Sound familiar?  There was apostasy in God’s church on the one hand, and governmental tyranny on the other.  Though Paul spoke this truth in love, it was perceived by both the church and the state to be hate speech. 

Truth is hate, to those who hate the truth.

Sadly, Operation Save America experienced this same response in Jackson Hole last year.  Your community perceived us as an enemy, because we dared to reveal the truth concerning the sin of abortion.  The city was so offended by this “revolutionary act,” that we won the dubious distinction of being “the worst thing to happen in Jackson, Wyoming, in 2011.”  How could this happen in the land of the free and the home of the brave?  It is not hard to discern, once good is perceived as evil and evil is perceived as good (Isaiah 5:20).

We all know what caused the harsh reaction.  It centered on the graphic pictures.  Sadly, you were more offended by these pictures than the fact that this abomination was actually taking place in your city at the hand of abortionist Brent Blue.  If something is so horrible that we cannot look upon it, perhaps we ought to stop doing it.  You considered us enemies for exposing this truth.  You blamed the messengers, not the man doing this horrible deed.

Why do we show these terrible pictures?  Know that we derive no delight in holding these signs. The reproach for exposing the unfruitful works of darkness is great (Ephesians 5:11). We do it out of love for God and for His precious preborn children who have no voice, no choice, and are unjustly being sentenced to death (Matthew 22:37−40; Proverbs 24:11−12).

Besides, God commands it, “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1).  Abortion is an outrageous sin against God and a brutal crime against innocent children created in God’s image.  Their innocent blood has been shed which has led to a host of other evils presently savaging our nation. Abortion is a national sin that leads to national calamity.  There is a direct connection between our spiritual state and the litany of woe upon our land.

The graphic pictures we use present a powerful visual object lesson―a “living parable” so to speak.  One is the picture of a beautiful live baby saved from abortion.  This represents what God does.  He saves!  The other is a picture of a baby ripped apart by abortion.  This is what sin does. It brings death (Romans 6:23)! Pretty ugly isn’t it?  If you remember, we held these two signs in contrast with one another last year. 

When we hold the dead baby sign, it demonstrates what happens when a nation dishonors God and violates His holy commandments.  All those who hate God love death (Proverbs 8:36).  America is choosing murder to solve its economic and moral problems.  It did not work with past regimes (Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, et cetera) and it will not work for America.  The live baby sign reveals what happens when a nation honors God and keeps His commandments.  It leads to the protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Wyoming stands at the threshold of history.  Your state could become the first abortion Free State in America.  It is up to you.  Though you may currently consider us an “enemy,” the time will come when that perspective will change.  You will find that we were, and are, your very best friends.  We loved you enough to tell you the truth.  Instead of viewing us as the worst thing to ever happen to Jackson Hole, you may come to know us as the best thing to ever happen to you.

God’s Word states, “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your children may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).  This is God’s will for you, your city, your state, and our nation.  He yearns to bless us with life and deliver us from the curse of death.  We are coming to Jackson, once again, to affirm this crucial message in Jesus’ name!