Minnesotans,
Heavenly Father, expose every lie told in Your name. Let the truth cut through the theater. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
The texts are out. Minnesota Concerned Citizens for Life’s State Victory Fund is blasting phones with a familiar script:
“If the Lindell-Parrish campaign won’t stand firm on pro-life now, how can we trust them to protect unborn children later? … Parrish called a bill that would allow virtually all abortions a ‘solid constitutional amendment’ and then attacked the very group that warned Minnesotans about it. … Minnesota needs steady, trustworthy leadership. Vote Lisa Demuth…”
That is not a warning. That is a deliberate, calculated lie designed to divide the pro-life base one week before the primary.
Here is the actual record.
In July I published MCCL’s Narrative Theater: How “Pro-Life” Leadership Plays Politics While the Truth on Life—and Minnesota—Gets Sold Out. In that piece I described HF 5084 as a solid constitutional amendment bill. HF 5084 is the bill that would have recognized a preborn child’s right to life from the moment of fertilization. It defined the preborn as a living human being. It included narrow exceptions only for the life and health of the mother and for nonviable or deceased children. It was the exact opposite of a bill that “would allow virtually all abortions.”
MCCL’s own leadership knows this. Their co-executive director and lobbyist, Don Parker, previously urged Senator Nathan Wesenberg not to introduce life-at-conception language because it was “too extreme.” They attacked Wesenberg with mailers for standing firm. Then they endorsed Lisa Demuth. Now they are twisting my support for the actual pro-life amendment into a claim that I somehow endorsed unlimited abortion. That is not a misunderstanding. That is narrative warfare.
I have never called any abortion-expansion measure solid. I have called Minnesota’s current regime—what the DFL enacted with the PRO Act and the repeal of viability limits—what it is: taxpayer-funded abortion up to and even after birth. A death cult dressed up as healthcare. Fear-for-profit eugenics with a medical coat of paint. I have celebrated the Medina ruling as a path to end the public funding of elective abortions. I have said repeatedly that life from conception is not a negotiating chip. It is biological reality and a moral truth rooted in the dignity of every human being made in the image of God.
MCCL’s tactic is older than this primary. Collect pro-life donations. Brand the hardest truth “extreme.” Protect the candidates who play the insider game. Attack the ones who refuse to soft-pedal. Divide the base while the DFL machine keeps the unlimited abortion statute, the funding streams, and the nonprofit networks that profit from the chaos. Then, when the body count and the fraud ledgers keep growing, claim the real problem is the people who refuse to compromise.
That is not leadership. That is theater. And the unborn pay the price for the performance.
The Lindell-Parrish ticket did not come out of the careful-establishment lane. We came out of the fight—Navy intelligence, fraud whistleblowing, years of documenting the networks that loot Minnesota while lecturing the rest of us about compassion. We will not pretend that life begins at some convenient political polling point. We will not treat the smallest and most defenseless as inventory to be managed. We will not soft-pedal the truth so that donor lists and endorsement letters stay comfortable.
Minnesota does not need another round of managed decline dressed up as steady leadership. It needs leaders who will protect the innocent without apology, prosecute the grifters who have turned “compassion” into a revenue model, restore parental authority, and rebuild a constitutional republic where families, farmers, veterans, and parishioners can actually thrive under the rule of law and the fear of God.
The primary is August 11. Early voting is already underway. Do not let a text message full of inverted facts decide this for you. Read the record. Read the previous article. Demand the same standard from every group that takes money in the name of life: tell the truth, stop the theater, and protect the preborn from conception without the political spin.
Truth does not need narrative control. It just needs people willing to speak it and leaders willing to live it.
Christ is King.
The vulnerable are not expendable.
Minnesota is not for sale.
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Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Lindell-Parrish Ticket
Campaign Manager Heidi Wanty: heidi@parrish4mn.com
(612) 460-1717
@phillipcparrish
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