{"id":3076,"date":"2007-02-05T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/couple-o-blegs.html"},"modified":"2007-02-05T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T13:36:42","slug":"couple-o-blegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/02\/couple-o-blegs.html","title":{"rendered":"Couple o&#8217; blegs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Maureen Wittman:<\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>I&#8217;m wondering if you can help me out through your blog.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>One of the fruits of our March for Life trip has been the desire to start a local pro-life club for teens.&nbsp; The teens in our homeschool group are really eager to do this and so I feel I should move on it fairly quickly while the iron is hot.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>We could start a club from scratch or start a chapter of an established group such as Generations for Life or Stand True.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>What I would like to know from your readers is: what kind of experiences people have had starting and running a youth pro-life club. Is it better to wing it on your own or go with a national organization? If the latter, what are the good ones?<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Thank you for any help or advice you can offer.<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>PS I finished posting those teen reports on the March: <a href=\"http:\/\/maureenwittmann.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/March%20for%20Life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"color: #003399\">Maureen Wittmann: March for Life<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">University of Dallas grad student <a href=\"http:\/\/deambrosejr.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/05\/vote-for-the-2007-political-blogging-scholarship\/\">Dennis Ambrose is a finalist for the 2007 Political Blogging Awards and is hoping to have some help!<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicsquare.net\/content.php?pid=60\">Mary Jo Anderson is engaged in a debate on gay marriage at Public Square. net &#8211; you&#8217;re invited to go check it out.<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Maureen Wittman: I&#8217;m wondering if you can help me out through your blog. 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