A December Greeting from Michael Farris

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A December Greeting from Michael Farris As 2011 winds down and we look back on the last 12 months, I want to extend my heartfelt thanks for your generous support of our efforts and for your confidence in the mission of ParentalRights.org. I’m grateful that when it comes to protecting families, you know the difference between talk and action – and you are taking action. Your support, whether financial or otherwise, has helped us make needed headway in our battle for parents’ rights. You’ve helped us make this a national issue, and you’ve put us in a good position for engaging Congress with the Amendment in 2012. You and I know that America is at a critical juncture for parental rights. Right now, the legal right of fit parents to raise their kids is foggy at best. With no clear constitutional standard for parents’ rights, the courts are confused. And that leaves families at the mercy of a judge’s whim. But you stand with us against the trend that says “a government bureaucrat or a foreign committee decides what’s best for your child.” Like me, you believe that you the parents, not bureaucrats, should have the biggest role in your child’s life. So you have fueled our successes. Thanks to you, in the last year we: released a gripping new docudrama and grassroots tool revealing the erosion of parental rights – Overruled: Government Invasion of Your Parental Rights; blocked passage of the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of the Child in the U.S. Senate for the current Congress by securing 37 cosponsors on SR99; mobilized volunteers to build our largest grassroots army ever; successfully passed resolutions calling for the Amendment in three more states – Montana, Idaho, and Florida; and successfully blocked attempts by anti-parent organizations to pass pro-CRC resolutions in Rhode Island and Illinois. I am especially excited about the opportunities our new movie Overruled opens up to advance parental rights. You see, our biggest challenge is reaching people with our message. While we already know (thanks to a 2010 Zogby poll) that an astounding 93% of Americans agree with the historic definition of parental rights, most of them don’t realize their rights are in serious danger. Overruled is an excellent tool to help us – and supporters like you – overcome this publicity challenge. In just the first couple of weeks the film had over 82,300 views online and much positive feedback. With you we are hard at work to spread the film to as many people as possible. With your help, ParentalRights.org is leading the movement to preserve parents’ rights in the text of the Constitution. That’s why your continued support is so essential to our mission. As my staff and I look ahead to 2012, we have to calculate how much funding is available for each of our crucial programs. A special one-time gift* would help finance the objectives we’ve set in place to pass the Amendment. Please take a minute to send a generous year-end donation to ParentalRights.org today. Your gift will help us achieve our goals for the new year as we work toward passage of the Parental Rights Amendment in Congress. I’m confident that with your help we will succeed. With my warmest regards for a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Michael Farris President *Because ParentalRights.org is a 501(c)4 lobbying organization, contributions made cannot be counted as charitable donations for federal tax purposes.

P.O. Box 1090 Purcellville, VA 20134 * (540)-751-1200 * info@parentalrights.org