campaign stops:
Lake
City, Starke,
Gainesville, Ocala,
St. Leo, Beverly
Hills,
Crystal River, Dade City,
Tampa
Northern Florida
Tour / Winter 2005
Our family stood in solidarity with a Queen of Peace
Church Pro-Life group protesting in front of an abortion clinic in
Ocala, Florida. One couple told us they had been coming to pray and
protest here every week -- for the past 19 years.
- My wife Liz and I did a talk
show on WKKO in Ocala, Florida. Several callers said there should be
virtually no compassion for illegal immigrants. Liz responded that
we had gone to the border town of Juarez, Mexico, on a research trip.
Some 200,000 people were living in cobbled together shacks with no
electricity, no running water and little food for their children.
They worked in multi-national factories here for: $3 a shift. Liz
said she couldn't help but think Christ would have "compassion"
for some of these parents illegally crossing the border -- so their kids
can be fed.
- I gave a talk to a Religion
Class at St. Leo's College in St. Leo, Florida. I said it was our
"spiritual responsibility" to help those in the Third World as
much as possible -- not only because they lack adequate food, medicine and
shelter -- but because our salvation is intrinsically tied to helping them
as well.