AFR News: Parental Rights- Preserving Liberty from Your Computer

July 2, 2013

Preserving Liberty from Your Computer

July Fourth week means different things, from quiet reflection on the price of our independence, to traveling long miles to colorful family cook outs, to fireworks. Whether your week is more contemplation or chaos, you can celebrate our freedoms while preserving them, too.

I heard Mike Farris say recently that if 10,000 constituents call each Senate office (and only 2,000 call each Congressional office), we can get the votes to pass the Parental Rights Amendment. You can work toward that by talking with those you see this week. In this day and age, though, you can also make great strides in that direction without even leaving your seat – through the power of internet tools.

I realize our supporters cover a wide range of technological experience. Some of you can’t survive a morning without your smart phone, while others have never visited a Facebook page. So for all of you we have gathered in one place a number of ways you can advocate for the Parental Rights Amendment from right there at your computer.

Social Network

If you haven’t already, visit and ‘Like’ our Facebook page. Depending on your settings, Facebook will tell your friends that you have signed up, which may bring them to check out the page, too. “Liking” the page also means that whenever we add a post to our Fan Page, you will see it in your News Feed – including newsletters, alerts, and a timely announcement whenever a new sponsor adds his name to the PRA. Want to know within the hour if your Congressman signs on? Here’s the best way to get that notification.

In a similar vein, you can “follow” us on Twitter. To do this, sign into your Twitter account (or create one), then find us at Twitter.com/ParentalRights.

You can also connect to your lawmakers and other Parental Rights leaders through LinkedIn or other similar networks.

Freedom Connector is another way to plug in, as is Google+.

Whatever network you use, please post or write to your friends and family about your support of the Parental Rights Amendment, asking them to do likewise. Especially ask them to contact Congress to support this vital protection for our families.

Online Advocacy

You can also express your support for the Parental Rights Amendment through a number of online advocacy venues. More and more, members of Congress look at these sites to see how a particular issue is trending. In each case you will need to sign up with a personal account, but most do not require much personal information beyond your name and an email address. Sign up for the ones that don’t ask more than you are comfortable with.

Become a Citizen Cosponsor at the Citizen Cosponsor Project.

Vote in favor of HJRes 50 (the Parental Rights Amendment) at POPVOX (a.k.a. vox populi).

If you have a blog, write a post about the need for the Parental Rights Amendment. Or you can reprint one of ours. (Reprint permission is granted as long as the content is used for its intended purpose – support of the Amendment.)

Online Donations

You can even provide financial support from the comfort of your chair. The most obvious way is simply to make a direct online donation to ParentalRights.org. Or conserve even more of your time and energy by setting up an automatic monthly contribution.

But you can also support us as you shop online. Simply start your online shopping at ParentalRights.org's GoodShop page. Click the GoodShop button on the left side of that page, then proceed to make your purchases online through stores and vendors you already use.

Online Lobbying

Perhaps the most effective way to support the Parental Rights Amendment from your chair is through online lobbying. First, send an email to everyone you can think of who might take up this vital endeavor. You might say something like this.

Then, send an email to your congressman urging support for the Parental Rights Amendment. To find your congressman’s email address, visit ParentalRights.org/States and click on your state (either on the flash map or the two-letter abbreviation in the right sidebar). Your congressman’s contact information will be located on your state’s page. Here is a sample of something you might say.

Conclusion

Parental rights protection will not be secured through powerful statesmen or persuasive media, but by a grassroots uprising. Only if we all work together can we push the federal government to protect our parental rights. Please consider carefully how you might join us online to make constitutionally protected parental rights a permanent reality.

Thank you for standing with us to protect the freedoms we celebrate this week. We at ParentalRights.org wish you and your family a safe, fun, and exciting Independence Day!

Sincerely,

Michael Ramey
Director of Communications & Research

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