Greetings and sorry for the intrusion—actually I am not, I have a mission and you can help. I am one of the founding directors of the National Organization for Parental Equality. We recently absorbed Parents And Children for Equality in Ohio and are on a mission to indentify every parental rights advocate, parental rights organization and every attorney (we have an attorney listing section) that is willing to fight for the parents that have been wronged by the current system of law that we have at present.
Personally, I have been in the parental rights movement for 15 plus years. I am what one can call an “Old Fart”. It has been a wild ride so far and many of you have seen my bullheadedness and some of tenacity with which I approach problems. I have yet to back off anyone or any challenge put to me. In a conversation the other day I explained to a gentleman that my work schedule is very different form a normal person. I do not get a day off very often. I generally am working on something seven days a week. A court case, legal research, legislation... The National Organization for Parental Equality is no different. This is not just a Face Book group; we are a real organization that helps parents every day of the week. Take a look at www.nopeohio.org
We didn’t come into this with a blind eye but we did come in with a strong stance to make sure that we get everyone on the same page and share info and bring everyone together with the end result of making sure that every fit parent has equal legal and physical custody of their children.
Our founding members are some of the most determined and educated persons in the parental rights movement in the nation. These are the people that watch the cases on parental rights and are years ahead of many in legal research so that we can break new ground. We have taken four cases to the United States Supreme Court and were the first to file an original action in Federal Court challenging the Constitutionality of a state’s custody law. Best of all we openly share where we have been and what we have learned by putting it on line for all to see.
We have not limited ourselves to fighting the fight in court. We are in close contact with our state legislative representatives in an effort to change the law by working with them. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to work with a representative that had the foresight to support us in trying to change the law by introducing what I believe was the first equal custody legislation introduced by a state in this nation. That effort involved over 200 emails and countless hours or work. That does not include the phone calls and discussions with the group that is responsible for writing law with or state.
All of our founding members are experienced at testifying before the various legislative committees and we have gotten new law signed.
Rallies and protests—yep been down that road also and got the pictures to prove it. Our support has now been solely for our efforts but for those of other groups that are like minded. Media interviews and promotions have been too numerous to count. One well known organization could not get the info out on a major protest of their own and I was asked to step up to the plate to help. I did not say no to brothers in arms and I had a package out in a short time while their own people were still working on getting started.
BUT the one thing that has made this movement ineffective thru the years has been the lack of co-operative efforts between groups. I have pushed for these efforts and have been successful in many areas BUT what we are doing now is not a small scale project. We want to identify every parental rights group in the nation and place them in one place so that any parent that has a problem can find someone to help them in their area. The website has ways to add this info easily and even a way to add your banner along with it. You are here and you are all over this country, why aren’t you telling everyone that you are a doer and willing to help instead of sitting back and letting someone else to the job at had.
We are not asking anyone to change their thoughts or approaches or basic philosophies on how this problem should be approached. What we are saying is that we need to band together to form a strong national army, so that our voice is heard as one. The tools to do this are in place. The information is sharable with everyone else and it is an expandable concept that can even break the info down to county by county level for each state when that time comes.
While we have focused on custody issues in divorce and with those associated with unmarried parents; the connections I have made thru the years have expertise in children’s services area, Parental Alienation and Marriage Covenant arrangements. I have a strong interest in expanding our website from its current 300+ pages to include the best available information on these subjects. I welcome any article for submission and information for addition to the www.nopeohio.org site. Combine this expansion with what we already have in respect to the reports and an ever expanding case law section and you will see that I have no expectations of slowing down soon.
I want every parent to have at their hands all the information that they need before they get into this fight for their inalienable rights to be an equal parent to their children. At will take a major effort and any help will be appreciated. Any donation will be well spent to further our efforts and help to defray our costs for both the website and the court cases we currently have in the courts. Donations can be made thru the Chip-In on our home page.
This is a volunteer army (unlike someone else that added people without permission) with a sole purpose of getting the job done and going home to our families.
We are looking to add chapters of our own across the country and we will show you how to find people in your area to support your efforts. We will help you with your efforts to change your state laws. Please forget the federal government; while we have efforts there that are ongoing in respect to the Title IVD funds, they are no help with custody of our children and the continued interference of the government if out families.
If you have an established organization, why are you not adding your organization so that you can be found? Add your organization as an affiliate so that you tell everyone you believe that a concentrated effort is how this will get done. Would Dr. King have accomplished his dream of equal rights by not having an army of helper working with him? The “I have a Dream” speech is just as important to this movement today as it was to King in the Sixties. This is the last area of equal rights that has yet to be broken thru. It has to be broken if we are going to stop the government intrusion in into our families.
Not all of you are affected directly by this. For some this will come as your children come of age and you became grandparents. For others, your children are grown and like me, you should be taking a stand for your children still. That fact remains that at some time during out life we will have some one cross our path that is going thru the trauma of losing a child strictly because they have ended a relationship. Tell them about us and this Face Book group and ask them to join. I want to have to make a new group because this one has gotten too big. At about 7:30 PM Eastern on Friday night we had 500 members. Now we are pushing 600. I would like to see that number at 2000 by the end of this week. This is an obtainable goal.
If I can work every day you can do me this small favor. I look forward to seeing all of you in Washington in July. I will be speaking and I will not be holding back.
Ray Lautenschlager
National Organization for Parental Equality
Akron
“The keeper of the penny”
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