{"id":343,"date":"2005-09-09T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=337"},"modified":"2005-09-09T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:05:54","slug":"9905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"9\/9\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

We stopped in Portland, Indiana yesterday where I met with Patty Johnston, Director of the Pregnancy Care Center here — what a dynamo! The center, which is an ecumenical outreach, provides free pregnancy tests; clothing, food, milk, diapers… for moms in crisis pregnancy. When Mrs. Johnston isn’t meeting with people at the center, she is out giving talks all around the county and exhaustively working to get grants. Like the one she recently got for the ‘CPR’ (Creating Positive Relationships) Program, which is a week-long middle school curriculum to teach students about abstinence, with a focus on teaching about the multi-dimensional aspects of relationships (intellectual, social, physical…). And that relationships are not just about sex — which seems, oh, sort of a strong cultural message these days. In an interview with a local radio station in Portland, I said Pro-Life work needs to be ardent and diverse. That is, the abstinence education Mrs. Johnston is promoting should (hopefully) tremendously impact the number of crisis pregnancy — that could end in abortion… Note:<\/strong> Later in the day, I was interviewed by the editor of Portland, Indiana’s newspaper. I told him while we didn’t pander to anyone, I wanted to let the good people of Indiana know that when I got to D.C., one of my first executive orders would be to change the national symbol from an eagle to a: Hoosier. “As soon as I find out what a Hoosier actually is,” I added. He smiled and replied that he thought nobody in Indiana actually knew, “for sure,” what a Hoosier was. (As president, I’m going to get to the bottom of this.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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