Oct. 1 - Good News, Bad News, Challenge

Friends of Personhood and the Unborn,

 

We are truly grateful for the way the Lord has blessed our efforts these last few weeks. With a vision to honor Christ, to protect all life in our state & restore the rule of Law,  Personhood Mississippi began with meager resources -- four families and a few thousand dollars -- and an incredible task - collect 90,000 signatures of registered voters divided equally between the 5 old (pre 2000) Congressional Districts.

Our legal deadline to collect the signatures is early 2010, but we had set a goal for ourselves of Oct. 1. The self-imposed earlier deadline would put this amendment on the Nov 2010 ballot whereas the legal deadline would mean a Nov 2011 vote. Strategically we liked the idea of 2010 better, and more importantly we didn't want another year of "legal" child killing to go on in our state unchallenged.

The good news is, in the last several weeks support has grown dramatically every day. We have dozens of churches & hundreds of volunteers from every region getting involved. Hundreds and thousands of signatures are coming in like a flood every day from all over Mississippi. We have gained the support of political & religious leaders across the state -- including Lt. Gov Phil Bryant, AFA, Pro-life Mississippi, & many churches from every denomination.

 

However, it doesn't look like they are coming in fast enough to make it by our Oct 1. deadline. 

 
More good news is that we can keep going. If we can get the remainder of the signatures by the original deadline, we can still put the measure on the ballot (all the signatures we have already gotten are still good, we just need more). AND if we can get them by Jan it is possible that the legislature would look at these signatures and either enact the amendment themselves or put it on the 2010 ballot. (In 2001 when the flag debate was raging they put it on the ballot in April 2001 after getting the signatures in Jan.)

At the rate we are picking up support, we are confident we will make it by this day

As mentioned at the beginning of this letter, when we began this effort we had only 4 families in North Mississippi & the Jackson area who even knew about this. Now we have hundreds of people in all 82 of Mississippi's counties who have been actively involved and are willing to do more.

We need you to keep collecting signatures & keep spreading the word. We still need church, county, & regional coordinators in several areas of the state - especially the coast. 

Please call or e mail if you'd like to help in this way. We especially need to hear from messengers to the Mississippi Baptist Convention. There will be a resolution offered supporting Personhood Mississippi