Parker is the founder and president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education, or CURE. Her organization assesses urban policy and seeks alternatives to the failed government programs of the liberals, but she is fearful that Obama will make her job much more difficult.
 
"They will put up hate crime legislation again, which will basically shut down churches and pastors from being able to use their pulpit to warn their folks or inform their folks," she contends. "They will try to pass a Fairness Doctrine to shut down other communication avenues, and we know this already."
 
She even cites Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez when analyzing Obama's future administration. "We saw what Hugo Chávez did when he took over Venezuela with all of these same kind[s] of promises. The first thing he did was shut down the press and shut down freedom of expression," she adds. "So we'll have a lot of work to do as Christian people -- and I will have a lot of work, as Christians do, to keep my organization alive in the midst of this."
 
Parker made her comments during the recent election coverage on OneNewsNow.com, a website where her columns appear regularly.

Center attorney Brian Rooney says the 12-year-old sixth-grader in Hutchinson, Minnesota, wore pro-life T-shirts, designed by the American Life League, to declare his belief that abortion robs an innocent person of life and is an offense to God.
 
"He had a plan to wear them for a month straight, and he did wear them for a month straight," Rooney explains. "But during that month, he was continually and constantly harassed by teachers and the principal, constantly pointing him out in the classroom and in the cafeteria and in other places, telling him to turn his shirt inside out, not to wear the shirt again."
 
In a press release by the Thomas More Law Center, a national public-interest law firm whose services are free of charge, Rooney contends the school threatened the student with suspension if he kept wearing the pro-life T-shirts. However, the threats violate the school's policy on free speech.
 
"The school has a written policy that allows children to wear these types of messages," Rooney adds. "It says [students may wear them] as long as the messages do not cause a disturbance in the classrooms."
 
The only disturbance, according to Rooney, was caused by the teachers and principal. School district officials did allow pro-homosexual students to wear T-shirts representing the Day of Silence held each year to promote acceptance of the lifestyle. Thomas More Law Center filed a lawsuit, but the school district has settled out of court and will permit pro-life T-shirts.
 
The Laws Center celebrates its ability to vindicate the student's constitutional rights and calls it a great victory for both the pro-life movement and First Amendment rights.