Red Envelope Day went uncovered

If one person received 2.25 million letters at once, would you expect to hear about it on television or read about it in the newspapers?
It did happen, just recently, and chances are this is the first you’ve read about the Red Envelope Project.
President Barack Obama received a crimson tide of empty red envelopes, mostly mailed on March 31, in protest of his position on abortion. The Pro-Life event was an Internet sensation, especially on Facebook.
Millions of people sent Obama empty read envelopes with this message printed on back: “This envelope represents one child who died in abortion. It is empty because that life was unable to offer anything to the world. Responsibility begins with conception.”
A White House mail office worker confirmed the 2.25 million number and said it was easily the largest mailing campaign there in the 35 years he has worked in the office.
My question is why wasn’t this widely reported in the mass media? Was it not big enough news? Or is it a case of the liberal media ignoring what it perceives to be a right-wing attack on their golden boy? I suspect a little of both, but more of the latter.
In terms of hard news, this amounts to a fluff piece. Or does it?
Sure, the White House being inundated by 2.25 million empty red envelopes is hardly earth-shattering news. But it deals with abortion and that’s at the heart of the religious and cultural war being waged around the world today. That, in my mind, makes it a huge story – right along with mainstream media’s failure to cover it.
Had they been green envelopes for Earth Day or pink envelopes for breast cancer, it may have earned some ink or air time.
I was horrified when one of Obama’s first acts as president was to pass legislation allowing for U.S. tax dollars to be used to fund abortions in other countries. With a stroke of his pen he paved away for this country to fund the genocide against the unborn abroad.
Part of the unconscionable deficit he has committed this country to for the next several generations is being used to kill innocents abroad.
I doubt many of those who painted a trail of blood in Iraq to George W. Bush will use the same brush when they look at Obama’s record against the pre-born. At least in Iraq the enemy has a chance to give up or fight back. The abortionists don’t give their victims that opportunity.
Now, before anyone jumps on me about Iraq, let me make it clear I do not condone our action there. I support and stand by our troops, but I think they should have been sent to Afghanistan instead. Saddam Hussein didn’t order the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden did.
Getting back to my point about the holy war going on in this country, abortion is just one battleground in a much bigger fight. This used to be a Christian nation. It was founded by Christians and based on Christian principles. But just as the federal government is eroding our Constitutional rights, so is the culture purging traces of faith from the mainstream.
Prayer in school? Gone. Creationism in science classes? Well let’s just say they’ve evolved. Sanctity of human life? Our laws are to the contrary. The push for gay rights makes all of us who believe in the Bible appear to be narrow-minded bigots. Even references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and on our currency are under attack.
All of these things and more continue to chip away at the cultural acceptance of Christianity. One could argue that the end times predicted in the Bible are nearly upon us. It certainly feels like it to me.
Some time ago, Bill McCartney, co-founder of Promise Keepers, told one of the gatherings, “Men, we have been in a war, but we have not been AT war.” The war is against Christianity and the battle lines are not drawn neatly in the sand. They have evolved from an erosion of standards. I long ago joined the battle. That is evident in what I call my life behind enemy headlines. I see and hear a lot working as a Christian in liberal newsrooms.
Sending a red envelope to Barack Obama is but one small shot amid the numerous volleys being fired across spiritual and cultural lines. It’s not my first shot and it’s far from my last.
Despite Newsweek’s recent declaration of the “decline and fall of Christian America,” there are those of us who will fight to the glorious end for her. I learned long ago to not be ashamed of the name of Christ Jesus.
My journalism colleagues in Washington, D.C., may be afraid to say something, as evidenced by the lack of Red Envelope coverage, but I’m not afraid to speak. This column is evidence to that.