Dear Friend of Morality In Media,
You can’t save the world if you can’t pay the bills.
It’s a sad truth. Many a fine project has disappeared into the dustbin of history because of a lack of funding.
And now Morality In Media is facing a financial crisis. The Congress has changed hands, and MIM has lost vital congressional funding for one of our most important projects.
Which means that, in months ahead, MIM will have to raise $150,000 from other sources to keep this project operating!
If you want us to keep up our battle against pornography, please click here to donate your most generous possible emergency contribution!
Let me explain how this happened.
You see, for the past two years, Congressional appropriations for the U.S. Department of Justice have included critical funding for MIM’s obscenity-fighting website.
That website, www.obscenitycrimes.org, supplies vital information that federal investigators and U.S. Attorneys can use to investigate and prosecute internet obscenity.
I’ve told you in the past of the important role this website plays in our nation’s fight against internet obscenity.
In fact, since its inception, MIM’s website has received over 60,000 reports of internet obscenity!
But we are now facing what is for us a major crisis.
You see, for the past two years MIM has received an annual grant of $150,000 for our website. That money was contained in an Appropriations Bill that was passed by Congress.
But, this past November, Congress changed hands.
And with the change in Congress, the Appropriations Committees changed. As a result, the 2007 Appropriations Bill contains no funding for MIM’s obscenity-fighting project.
Yes, we can and will apply directly to the Justice Department for a new grant. But when we do so, we will be competing with thousands of other applicants.
MIM won’t know for months whether we will get a new grant from Justice. But one thing is certain – THIS PROJECT SHOULD AND WILL CONTINUE IF WE CAN RAISE THE ADDITIONAL $150,000!
That’s why I’m writing you today with this appeal.
You know, fighting obscenity and indecency is tough work. But there are also great rewards.
And I want you to know that there is one reward that all of us at MIM find very encouraging.
It is the realization that so many Americans are willing to sacrifice to help us in our battle against pornography.
Yes, the generous and faithful support of Morality in Media’s donors gives us great inspiration in our work.
But the job also has its hard parts. And today MIM is facing a potential deficit of $150,000. And today I am asking you to make a truly sacrificial gift to Morality In Media.
So here’s what I’m asking you to do…
First, we need your fervent prayers in support of our work. We simply couldn’t survive without them.
Second, we need your most generous support possible, right now. I know from what MIM president Bob Peters tells me that MIM depends a great deal on gifts of between $100 and $1,000.
Some of our donors can make donations of much more than $1000. And others of very limited means give us $10 or $25, with their enthusiastic and prayerful support.
Can you help Morality In Media at this critical time?
Please click here to make a truly sacrificial contribution! Can you support our work with a $250 donation? I know it’s a lot, but this situation is crucial.
Your critical donation today will assure that Morality In Media can continue its vital work to combat illegal obscenity and indecency in every facet of American life.
And let me assure you, with your indispensable help, we will continue that battle on all fronts.
In recent months, MIM lawyers submitted amicus briefs in two federal court cases involving the broadcast indecency law.
Both cases were filed by broadcast TV networks that are unhappy about specific indecency fines they received for polluting the public airwaves with vulgarity and nudity.
But the networks aren’t just asking the courts to reverse the fines for specific programs. They are asking the courts to declare the broadcast indecency law unconstitutional!
And by suing in both New York and Philadelphia, they think they have a better chance of finding friendly judges.
Yes, these are critical battles, and MIM needs your most generous possible help to win them!
Thank you, and may God bless you.
Sincerely,
Christopher Manion
Vice President
If that lengthy fundraising letter has you fumbling for your wallet, I’m sure the Free Speech Coalition (adult entertainment advocacy group) will be more than happy to take your money.
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