Month: September 2024

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Our Annual Picnic held September 29 featured our guest, Pulitzer Prize-winning Tony Messenger, columnist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the popular singer, Laka, with her band! We had over 60 people in attendance, and everybody had a wonderful time.

Mr. Messenger, author of “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice”, spoke about how the far-right uses laws intended to further religious freedom to impose the narrow religious interpretations  of  a small minority on the rest of society.

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  We strongly supported the petition effort to repeal the current no-exceptions ban on abortions in Missouri, which we learned on 9/11/2024 will be on the November ballot!

A link to a comprehensive description of the ruling can be found on the KWMU Web site. Our national office issued a statement on Friday, June 14, expressing our respectful disagreement. Of course, the initiative petition that would, if passed, revoke Missouri’s draconian law against virtually all abortions will be on the ballot in November. However, the effect would not be as clear an affirmation of Missouri’s constitutional statement that church and state are and should be separate as a ruling in our favor would have been. We are disappointed by not surprised.