Combating Pornography in the Community
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Gulf Coast AFA facilitated the writing of a Gulfport city ordinance that resulted in the closing of a
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also led fights
against pornography and its promotion within the community.
See also the Hustler Protest.
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led the public on discussions about the effects of pornography and how we
needed a community standard that included a zero tolerance of pornography. We created
the Anti-Pornography Campaign and distributed "Action Kits" to
churches with simple strategies to start combating the public sale of porn
magazines. We also trained volunteers to effectively combat public
display and sale of sexually oriented
materials contained in other products and non-porn magazines -- focusing on items easily seen by
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Combating Destructive TV
Gulf Coast AFA organized the
nation's largest TV monitoring group in AFA history. |
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We monitored all 4 TV networks for sexual, violent, and language content. The purpose was to
document national advertisers and the TV programs they funded. Along
with other AFA groups around the country the data was compiled to reveal the
top 12 worst offenders and became AFA's "Dirty Dozen" list for use in
lobbying advertisers to reform network programming. This project was
later discontinued by AFA national.
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As the President of the Gulf Coast AFA,
Pro-Life Dave had the privilege of heading the South Mississippi Pro-Life Task Force which organized and coordinated Pro-Life activities and education amongst churches in 13 counties.
After the Gulfport abortion clinic shut down, that removed a major rallying
point, and the Task Force work stopped. |
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One of those events
that we organized was the annual memorial service which we normally held
in a field right next to the Gulfport abortion clinic itself.
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 We also organized and coordinated efforts in counseling
and in keeping a presence at the Gulfport abortion clinic. During this
time we had the great privilege of personally seeing God shut it down!
For a time we coordinated carpooling efforts to the Jackson abortion clinic,
now the last abortion clinic in Mississippi.
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 Razor
and Barb Wire hung atop the Gulfport abortion clinic's fence, just like a
concentration camp. On one side was a
playground where children played and on the other side children were
delivered unto death. After we occupied the property we carefully
pulled down the wire and now keep it as a trophy of God's Victory.
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about the abortion clinic shutting down |
Gulfport abortion clinic
on the other side of
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A nearby church bought the
Gulfport abortion clinic property just prior to it shutting down. We had
been watching over the fence as the abortionist moved out, counting the
hours and minutes until it closed. The next morning we (along with the
pastor) open the gates for the first time. We walked in and occupied the land and building
giving God praise and glory for the victory. The experience was
surreal as we were overwhelmed by great joy, victory, and praise to God
mixed in with great weeping, mourning, prayer, and silent
reflection because we knew that babies had just been killed
there days before. The night before, Pro-Life Dave was the only one to follow the
abortionist and his
U-Haul moving van to his storage facility. Dave watched from afar as he unloaded. Little did
we know but he had placed in that storage unit
what later reports said to be over 35 bags full of dead babies. After not paying the storage rent
the contents were auction off. The babies ended up being buried
in a shallow, mass grave in a field in Ocean Springs, MS. In Dec. 1999
the mass grave site was discovered and made the news
really big. There was a police investigation but more
importantly people from the community banded together, took custody of the
remains, and gave the babies a proper burial and tomb stone.
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The Annual Candlelight
Memorial in January was organized outdoors at night in this same field (seen
right) next to the Gulfport abortion clinic. In addition to regular TV and
Newspaper coverage we also broadcasted it on our AFR radio station!
In 1998 we placed these
white crosses in that same field and surrounded the abortion clinic on 3 sides
with 4,400 crosses. It was an impressive site to behold! |
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Stop the Marilyn Manson
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"Hopefully, I’ll
be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity."
Marilyn Manson
Spin magazine, August 1996, p. 34
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Gulf Coast AFA organized the
Coast-wide opposition to the
Marilyn Manson concert.
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In addition to heavy lobbying of the
Coast Coliseum to stop the event we sent 3 members to the concert to document things.
Read what we learned. |
Pastors' Alliance |
 The experience was 'enlightening' to say the least.
We witnessed many acts
of public lewdness and open and en-mass drug usage all in the presence of
minors as young as 5 AND in the presence of off-duty police and sheriff
deputies hired for event security.
In addition to the large
Marijuana cloud that filled the entire event, what shocked me most was law
enforcement's open, public "acceptance" that this was normal for concerts.
It appeared we stumbled onto another crime besides Marilyn Manson's
desecration of the Bible (which he tore apart) and American Flag (which he
wiped his butt with) -- it was the government participation in the wholesale
corruption of the minds and bodies of the public, including teens and
children. The 'bodies' part of that statement was that everyone at the
event ended up inhaling Marijuana.
OUR RECOMMENDATION
Since the Coast Coliseum was a government run facility there was not much
anyone could do -- all in the name of "free speech" they said.
To solve these issues we recommended that public venues and events centers,
like the Coast Coliseum, to be placed in the hands of (not sold to) private
management companies who could be held to a higher level of civil and
criminal accountability.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
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"Hustler"
is an extreme hard-core pornography magazine containing themes of "Gang
rape, botched abortions, incest, child sexual abuse and racism."
The movie "The People vs. Larry Flynt"
glorified Hustler's Founder & Owner making him out to be an American hero
casting him as an
underdog fighting for his liberties against an overbearing government.
In our effort to promote a community
standard that included a zero tolerance of pornography, Gulf Coast AFA led a
 community-wide effort in boycotting and protesting the
only movie theatre on
the Coast to show the film.
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Gay
Activist Agenda |
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 During
the 1990s, a surge of outside homosexual activist activity targeted the
South Mississippi. The introduction of parades and homosexual bars to
several conservative communities in addition to a gay community center and
an national activist/pagan campground woke up Coast residents.
Gulf Coast AFA worked with local
pastors and residents in building an opposition to the parades and community
center. We continued to closely monitor and document their activities
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Since 1984, David Rogers had been a part of an effort to bring
Christian Radio to the Gulf Coast of which WAOY became our success story. In
October 1996 WAOY 91.7 FM
began broadcasting out of Gulfport. WAOY, an
American Family Radio
station, is the premier Christian station the Mississippi Gulf Coast and broadcasts at
an amazing 100,000 watts FM (that's a very big one).
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the early 1980s David Rogers had been a part of promoting Contemporary Christian Music
on the MS Gulf Coast, which was new in our area at that time. In 1984,
backed
by major Christian record labels, David Rogers founded a ministry called
"Promise Productions" which became well know on the Gulf Coast for providing
Contemporary Christian Music DJing for all types of Christian youth events,
"PROMISE" the Christian Rock Band, and "The Dave & Kelly Show" - a Contemporary Christian Music Video Show.
The show was very pioneering for those days since MTV had only began 3 years
prior. During the 1980s, David had also worked in radio
in the areas of production, on-air, and operations.
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Kandi Anderson & Roy Wikoff
"WAOY At Your Service" |
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As Gulf Coast AFA
President, David worked closely with Roy Wikoff, then station manager, assisting in its
setup, operations and in the promotion of Pro-Life and
Pro-Family Issues.
 David got to work with new and now famous radio personalities like
Kandi Anderson and Ron Meyers
(the current station
manager). David: "I'm proud to have been a part of
the founding history of WAOY, a station that has and will continue to make a
big impact for God."
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Building of the Radio Tower
in Stone County
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PHOTO (RIGHT): October 1996
Roy Wikoff (left). Don Wildmon (right)
pays a surprise visit before WAOY goes on-air for the first time. He
flew into Gulfport to view AFR's newest and most high-tech station. |
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WAOY / AFR video goes here
coming soon |
Web Links to those in the video:
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Conservative Christian Library
From its beginning, Gulf Coast AFA kept an
office in Biloxi up until 2005 when it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
During the 90s our first office included a library containing resources
and materials on Government, History, and Issues. It was called the
American Heritage Library and was open to the community by appointment. We hosted many small
group studies on topics ranging from American Christian Heritage to Creation
Science. We also housed an extensive collection of gambling
research which was collected from years in the fight against casino
gambling.
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In the late 90s we relocated our
office into
a larger building it allowed us to expand the library topics to add
more general Christian resources. Gulf Coast
AFA's American Heritage Library became the seed to the Conservative
Christian Library.
The Conservative Christian Library was open part-time to
the public on weekdays and was staffed by volunteers. It grew to
include thousands of resources
(books, videos, audio, and a large collection of topical vertical files). It
also included a computer lab, multi-media center, and large reading areas
which were also used to host topical meetings with teachers and speakers.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina tore the roof off the building
destroying everything inside. The library was an idea ahead of its
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Our 1st Office and Library Area
Our 1st Office and Library Area
Our 2nd Office and Library
After Katrina |
Dave
started work as a grassroots organizer in 1990 opposition campaign in the Dockside Casino Gambling
Referendum in the 3 coastal counties and in 1992 in
Harrison County (see photo right). He is a Political Strategist, Consultant, and
Speaker in
the Pro-Life, Pro-Family, and Constitutional Movements.