Dear Pro-Life and Pro-Family Friends,
Did you ever think that abortion, contraception and pornography were modern issues for America? Join us at the Howard Center Roundtable Lunch and step back in time as we learn from Dr. Allan Carlson about one of the first warriors in the Pro-Life Culture War, Anthony Comstock. What lessons and strategies can we learn for today’s pro-life and pro-family battles? Join us for these answers and more on Friday, March 11, 12 noon at the University Club in Rockford, Illinois. Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
---Larry
Go to
http://www.profam.org/2011/thc.rtl.110311.pdf for more information
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Please join The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and the
World Congress of Families in a Roundtable Lunch,
our venue for discussion on important questions.
Joining us for this Roundtable Lunch will be Dr. Allan C. Carlson, President of The Howard
Center for Family, Religion & Society and Founder and International Secretary of the
World Congress of Families. Dr. Carlson will speak about: “The Beginning of the Culture
Wars in America: The Life and Times of Anthony Comstock.”
A Q&A Discussion Session will follow the presentation.
Luncheon: $15 for Howard Center Members; $25 for Non-Members
Check the reverse side for information about becoming a Member.
Payable in advance or at the door by cash, check or credit card.
Please RSVP by Thursday, March 10, 2011 to Lisa Youngblood at The Howard Center.
Phone: 815.964.5819 • Fax: 815.965.1826 • Email: lisa@worldcongress.org
Donations above the cost of the lunch are always appreciated.
Go to
http://www.profam.org/2011/thc.rtl.110311.pdf for more information
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Contemporary biographers and historians either ridicule anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock as cruel, bigoted, and ignorant or (on the political right) ignore him as an embarrassment instead of as the most effective pro-family and pro-life advocates in American history.
Comstock’s equation of birth control and abortion actually reflected the progressive medicine of his day. Comstock actually stands as the point man for a broad evangelical campaign to suppress “obscenity,” including birth control and abortion. He involved other prominent evangelical lay leaders, including J. Pierpont Morgan, Samuel Colgate (of toothpaste fame), copper magnate William E. Dodge, and even showman P.T. Barnum. Comstock successfully won measures suppressing birth control at the federal level, and in every state. Comstock was also primarily responsible for ending the mid-19th century commercial viability of abortion, and he completely shut down the American trade in hard-core pornography, which had spread rapidly during and after the Civil War. Most impressively, he held this legal empire together from 1873 until his death in 1915. Compared to Comstock, contemporary pro-life and pro-family leaders have far to go.