Rob Regier leaving the SD Family Policy Council
I've had a couple of people forward me a note that Rob Regier is leaving the SD Family Policy Council. Rob has been there since it was only a fledgling organization in SD, so this marks a major change in style for the group.
Here's what the note said:
Here's what the note said:
Dear friends,
It is with sadness that I announce I will be stepping down as executive director of the South Dakota Family Policy Council. I certainly will miss interacting with the thousands of South Dakotans who support the Family Policy Council, but I believe God has a different plan for me, as well as for the organization. After nearly nine years between my time at Family Research Council in Washington , D.C. and here at the Family Policy Council, it's time for a change for my own family.
For two reasons I make this announcement now, rather than later. First, the date of my departure has not been set as the board of directors desires me to stay to help in the selection of and transition to a new executive director. This transition time could take several months. Staying on the right course depends on all of us continuing our financial and prayerful support. We all need to help the organization through this transition. That said, I will continue to ask you for your support of the South Dakota Family Policy Council during this very crucial time. With its principled mission statement, widespread support, strong leadership, committed staff, and partnership with hundreds of churches from around the state, I’m sure the it will continue to be a leading force in shaping the culture.
The second reason for the announcement now is the board wants me to have the freedom to openly consider future career options. As I work diligently for the South Dakota Family Policy Council in this transition, I can also consider with integrity, what the Lord has in store for me and my family. In that respect, the board has been gracious enough to give me some time to await the Lord’s calling.
Will you join me in prayer for my family -- my beautiful wife Tammy, lovable son Rex, and sweet daughter Nadia -- that God will sustain us through this exciting yet unsure time? Believe me, it takes an understanding and patient wife to be in this kind of ministry. To compound that with a decision to move forward in mere faith is a true test of her love for me, a test that she has passed with the conviction of a soldier, or in her case a sailor (Tammy is former Navy). She does love me. And I love her, more than anyone or anything on this earth.
Yet, there is one bond more unbreakable than the one between my wife and I, and that is our bond with Christ. We know that He has a plan. A perfect plan. We rest easy in the knowledge that God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.
Thanks to all of you for your prayers and support. I look forward to talking to as many of you as possible and answering any questions you may have. God bless you all.
Sincerely,
Rob
Robert Regier
Executive Director
South Dakota Family Policy Council
Comments
His successor could only be an improvement in terms of taste and class.
Traditional Family Values 1
Gay marriage 0
Abortion: loss
Video lottery: loss
Marriage: narrow win
Pretty sure he would have preferred a win on RL6.
People that are not on your level will try to bring you down to their level vs risng up to yours. I only met you a few times but you did a good job and good luck.
Isn't it funny when you stand for what is morally right people still want to knock you down. I think it is because Liberals can't handle the truth.
I will remain anonymous too.
Sadly, he and his like will continue to prey on the truly devout, yet less sophisticated people who support these organizations.
"Rob, get thee and thy corrupt tactics behind me. The ends never justify the means."
and then they will say "nah, we got screwed by the media, or the dems, or the moderates, or the conservative republicans who have not agreed to do whatever we tell them, or voters who didnt get it, or ANYone but our own overreaching." and then, they will bring some more overreaching ideas and candidates, and lose some more elections.
ane then one day they will wake up, and ask..... ahhh, never mind. you get the picture.
I hope it was a woman who wrote this. Rob doesn't appreciate man-love. Either does Jesus.
Our party needs to push harder on social issues, not let off the gas as some people at this site have advocated.
The people of South Dakota are moral, God fearing people and if we need to the government to occaisonally step in and help, I'm all for it.
Loyal GOPer
Another hypocrite bites the dust.
You were forced to discuss the abortion you paid (for your part of) when it was feared that in responding to your political attacks, the Daschle camp would use it to their political gain.
While "God has forgiven you" for your "young and foolish" mistakes (which we all make, you point out), it seems a reasonable question to ask -- why the woman who aborted your child is not front and center as a spokeswoman for the "Vote Yes on 6 / For Life" campaign.
Given the "Vote Yes" campaign's insistance that there are loopholes which only now exist as the "morning after pill," may we ask just how long you waited between conception and abortion? Was it longer than the time the "Vote Yes" literature says emergency contraception "works"?
Would your abortion have been allowed under the law we are being asked to affirm / repeal? Was it a case of rape or incest?
Given the "Vote Yes" campaign's insistance on how abortion emotionally cripples women, have you ensured that your first child's mother, if that's how you choose to remember her, has grown up to be as stable an adult as you have? And do you owe her financial remuneration for the pain and suffering you contributed to by your "young and foolish" sowing of oats? Would it equal the cost of raising the child to college age, or would she feel you owed her more?
Should the doctor who performed your shared abortion face retroactive punishment for the crime you paid to him to commit?
Where is the woman that did not become Mrs. Regier ... or do we deserve her side of the story?
I'm not willing to bet his replacement will show any more class. The Heritage Foundation trains them to be ruthless, tasteless and vicious -- but smile a lot and quote Jesus while they're running the manure spreader.
I'm sorry but I have a mental image of Kate Looby on a horse leading a gay pride parade grouping into battle against small children, puppies, apple pie and Rob Regier for the soul of American. Of course the flag (never mind Jesus, is there a difference?) is waiving behind Rob and the puppies, and the pie.
Please, let the door hit you on the way out of SD Politics.
Sick and Tired GOP Anon.
Oh, please, please do. That would make Jesus very happy. And it would make me f'n ecstatic.
Push harder, Good Christian Soldier.
When your wife complains to other people about your (lack of) earning power, it gets around - much, much farther than you realize. But it will all work out because you love her, she loves you, and you both love Jesus.
Then maybe you can afford the dues to the country club again.
"if you have anything more to say about my wife, why don't you bring yourself out of anonymity"
You've had plenty of personal things to say about people on the blogs in the last year or so, all authored under your pseudononymous pen name "lexrex."
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right Rob?
Oh wait, you've made a career out of trying to disprove that, haven't you.
You and Leslee. Two birds of a feather, both living under the motto "do as I say, not as I do."
I've heard two versions. Hers claims that it happened between child number three and child number four, after a doctor told her the pregnancy threatened her life.
The other version, which comes from a former acquaintance, says that Leslee and Allen were married to other people at the time but were involved. He was the doctor, she was the patient, and soon there was an unwanted baby.
Adulterty + Abortion. IF that is true, I can understand their guilt.
Actually, I know only what I hear - and that isn't much. But apparently it's accurate.
I wouldn't know you if I saw you. Same for your wife.
But you're right that it's not really relevant. So I will drop it.
Actually, I would have dropped it sooner had you not responded.
Ouch.
Why Rob couldn't stand for the same principle when they were ripping into Daschle's wife?
It would be interesting to know which churches were allied with his efforts to smear people in public life.
Well, my interest is peaked. How do you get into the club?
Why was the woman who aborted LEXREX'S child not front and center as a spokeswoman for the "Vote Yes on 6 / For Life" campaign? Would she have voted yes or no?
Given the "Vote Yes" campaign's insistence that there are loopholes which only now exist as the "morning after pill," may we ask just how long LEXREX waited between conception and abortion? Was it longer than the time the "Vote Yes" literature says emergency contraception "works"? Yes or no.
Would LEXREX's abortion have been allowed under #6? Yes or no.
Given the "Vote Yes" campaign's insistance on how abortion emotionally cripples women, has LEXREX ensured that hist first child's mother has grown up to be as stable an adult as you have? Yes or no.
Does LEXREX owe her financial remuneration for the pain and suffering he contributed to by your "young and foolish" sowing of oats? Yes or no. Would it equal the cost of raising the child to college age, or would she feel LEX owes her more?
Should the doctor who performed LEX's shared abortion face retroactive punishment for the crime he was paid to commit? Yes or no.
Where is the woman that did not become Mrs. Regier? Does she know how blessed your life is? Yes or no.
ahhhhh. i will miss the "civility" of my liberal friends.
Yeah, Rob...we'll miss your civility, too...what was that you said about South Dakotans Against Discrimination's Jon Hoadley being dead by age 40 simply because he's gay? Pretty civil, Rob.
Or when the Mrs. can call into radio forums and claim to be an anonymous complete supporter of his work (thus wasting time for the host and other callers who might disagree with him.)
Your reputation is substantiated, so why not be proud of it? I just don't know what that has to do with a ministry.
Again, I don't remember hearing you cry foul to the attacks on Mrs. Daschle. You had the podium and you failed to stand up for the principle you so angrily state here.
RE: "you demonstrate once again that tolerance is a one-way street with you liberals." One does not have to be a liberal to recognize a creep in broad daylight.
Y'all are pissed off b/c it was the evangelical crowd who helped kicked daschle's smarmy ass out of office. Regeir was left standing and at least he got getting rid of homosexual marriage. I'll take that win and cherish it just like the daschle defeat.
Rob you got rid of gay marriage and that means alot to many of us out here. Keep fighting the lords fight!
It must take guts to dump a wife for a beauty queen.
Oh that's right, Daschle did stand up for his wife, on a pile of phone books.
You lost me, Rob. What was said that smeared your wife? I don't see anything here that fits that description.
What are these people here supposed to be tolerant about? Because you made bigoted remarks about Jon Hoadley, because you "discussed" Daschle's wife, or because you compared our former senator to a mass murderer? Or were all of those things acceptable because you were fighting the Lord's fight?
I don't think that is what Jesus would do.
Gay marriage was already gone you doofus.
Would he compare his wife as easily to pathological liars, alcoholics, murderers and subhuman beasts as does with South Dakotas law abiding tax paying gays and lesbians too often using disproven quack science of the disbarred Paul Cameron?
I'd be offended if I were Mrs. Regier by the contempt he has for his fellow man outside closed doors.
He has boasted of his ability to perform career assassination as was his goal in in getting Thune elected to the Senate, albeit with the help of a gay male prostitute in Washington.
Regier has earned no right to be offended, he's been a mudslinger for hire all his professional career.
Rob makes money telling people about his abortion. His family benefits financially because of his premarital sex.
Yes for Life/6 made the such graphic details part of a public campaign. Rob only makes money telling how his abortion made his life better, while his side attacks the women exactly like those whose abortion he paid for.
Regier throws stones while living in a glass house. He isn't man enough to deal with the consequences.
Answer the questions, Lex/Regier.
You've come into our homes and offices already.
This sure isn't the place to cut and paste whole pages -- obviously you have difficulty making a point quickly and in your own words.
Rob: Good for you standing up for your wife and family. There are many women that I know would give so much to have a husband that moves quickly to defend them.
PP: It appears to me that this thread has dipped below the threshhold that you usually maintain for your site. The name calling and inappropreate questions are truly below polite company standards.
Those who have posted here: You certainly have strong feelings. It is the epitomy of intolerance to use name calling and ask intensely personal questions when you are anonymous. It reduces your own worth to attack another's worth in this way. Perhaps some apologies are in order.
If you can't say something nice--or at least in an appropriate way--then it is wise to maintain silence.
Mrs. Ellis: To ask these questions, first, you should ask using your real name. Second, you should ask them face to face in Rob's office -- nicely and politely--if you really want answers. What you are doing here is showing us your true character--and I don't think that even you would like you very much.
So, despite the fact that Rob Reiger has ridiculed people, made disparaging remarks about individuals, and publicly judged people, it doesn't make it right for other people to behave in an equally terrible way.
It is, however, understandable how that could happen.
My grandma also had another saying: What goes around, comes around.
Does the woman whose abortion he admits he paid for agree with his views on abortion?
Regier makes public speeches about his abortion. he allows those he allies himself with to tarnish the reputations of the women who have them with dubious science.
Regier chooses NOT TO make his abortion a PRIVATE issue.
Yup. Us darn liberals are so intolerant. That's why we're the ones trying to remove basic rights from disenfranchised groups of people. Oh, wait...
Wow, Rob...it's got to be tough that some people just won't tolerate your bigotry, no matter how hard you try to frame it as something other than that. Better luck next time!
People do not have to be gay or lesbian to be offended by the things that Rob Regier has said and done. Kicking other people around in the name of religion is offensive to most people.
Instead of talking about him leaving his position, we're talking about him being a murderer, and we're getting the word "homo" used in reply.
Time to dial things down a few notches.
Lex, you are correct, It was not your comments that I had a problem with.
I deleted something from a left leaning poster that went a bit over the top in calling lexrex a murderer for doing something in the past he openly regrets. If the poster who got bumped wants to expound on that, he has his own blog to do it with. I'm not going to chew him out, because I don't think it's my place, but in my judgment, it just seemed a bit extreme. (And it's my blog, so I do get to be judge).
And I also deleted a comment from a right leaning poster talking about "homos." If I allow that, what's next? The "N-word"?
And before anyone says it, yes on occasion, sometimes I might do posts that people think are over the top, and I leave them up. Why am I applying a different standard? In that instance, I'd rather take my medicine than mitigate it.
Yes, I allow things to get pretty free-wheeling at times, but it's an invitation to debate, not to call names.
My faith in your blog is "mostly" restored.
There is a huge difference between debate and name calling. Strong feeling CAN be expressed appropriately. Those with VERY strong feelings -- who push the edge--- really should use their real name.
It is amazing how it makes you refocus and restate, when you know that someone that you may meet on the street later might bring up your comments in conversation.
Tim Johnson never wore a uniform in his life, except for maybe at McDonalds, and has most certainly not faced the enemey in combat.
What basis does he have to compare Republicans in SD with the Taliban. And please don't give me the stuff about his son in the army. TJ has to stand on his own not on the shoulders of his own son.
Again this whole Rob bashing goes back to him not supporting homosexual marriage. It seems like the supporters of gay marriage can't stomach their loss.
Wow. A left-leaning (likely pro-abortion) person calling somebody a murderer? A real case of the kettle calling the pot black!
On the other hand, no offense to Mr. Regier and Mrs. Unruh, who appear to be sincerely regretful of their past actions, but I wish these pro-life and pro-family organizations could be led by people who have practiced what they preach. It sure would help with credibility issues.
This morality stuff works even better than Amway.
But we got the tar beaten out of us this year losing on the lottery, the abortion issue, the whole activist judges issue. And barely winning on marijuana and gay marriage.
The worst part was that we expected to win handily on abortion and demonizing homosexuals. Steve Hildebrand and Jon Hoadley actually beat us time after time putting facts and hard work against our name calling, deceptions, and scandal after scandal involving our tactics, money raising/laundering, and use of out of state groups with ties to porn and escort services.
But what can I say, you people have taken us into your hearts, homes, and wallets. We will miss taking your money, and no, you can't have any of it back.
Rob Regier,
Ex Master of the Universe, SD Familees for Babies and stuff.
(P.S. My retirement is just as voluntary as Donald Rumsfeld's. Leslee wants my desk cleaned out so she can have it gold plated to be worthy of her stuff.)
(P.P.S. Even if you never mentioned my wife, I'm offended on behalf of my wife because it gains me sympathy.)
(P.P.P.S. Nobody understands satire, so don't even try it.)
Whoever wrote this must have a deluded, sad life. I pity you, truly.
Unless the person who posted that message had the sole intent of offending people, that person defeated his or her purpose by not doing so because the profane words distract from the message.
The question is ... would he repeat the medical claims of Vote Yes on 6 to the woman he had "part of his past" with?
How much of the law he supported (with emergency contraception etc) would have applied to his case?
Does the woman who had his first unborn child know he makes money telling "their" joint story?
This has nothing to do with the current Mrs. Regier. This has to do with the selective version of the truth he uses as his Christian witnessing. It has to do with whether he believes his group's, Bob Ellis', Steve Sibson, and Leslee Unruh's positions.
Or is he simply above the laws he supports?
If this is the first time you have ever seen curse words on a blog, you can ask for your money back from the box office.
You could always respond to the argument raised by the posting, than the syntax.
Nah. The profane acts are what's described ... not the description itself.
I'm not a fan of Rob Regier's, and I agree with much of what Carlin says. But I don't agree with the manner in which he says it.
Most people who attend Carlin's performances, or tune in to watch him on cable, know what to expect. That is not the case here, and you knew it when you quoted him without bothering to clean up the language.
If you wanted to offend people, you did a good job of it. And you hurt your cause - and mine - in the process.
Rob,
Anonymous 1:25 here. I thought about this for a while and came to the conclusion that your wife, by your logic above, IS fair game.
You exploited her, just as you exploited your abortion to further your career. The discussion here has been about your career which you've attempted to frame as a ministry for Christ, all the while bathing yourself in God and Christ and holy purpose in your letter.
You and I know that your exploitation of God to do your political backstabbing and corrupt ministry of bigotry is the name of your game. Exploiting your abortion and your wife, just as you did in your letter, are more of the same.
Of course, at the end of your service at SDFPC, you claim to have built friendships and accomplished great deeds as the inventory of your work.
But, search your heart, which will last longer, the claim of great deeds and friendships playing dirtball politics in the name of God, or your exploitation of your abortion, your wife and God in the name of dirtball politics?
Perhaps you'll move along telling people about toppling Tom Daschle with your ad pairing Dashle with Saddam Hussein and about your war against gays and reproductive choice. However, the people who really know your story will remember the ugly stain you left behind.
Dehumanizing gays and dehumanizing women and girls to become broodmares for the state (damn, that was a good one, George Carlin!), all the while exploiting your abortion for cash and fame, make one hell of a resume. Good luck, bud.
It's fun watching your party come apart at the seams. You have no idea what you stand for anymore.
What if I was a drug addict who finally got free and didn't want anyone else to go through what I did. What if I spoke out? Would that give the drug addicts and those who have never tried drugs the right to smear me.
What if I tried the homosexual life style and discovered that it caused all kinds of pain and suffering for my family. That even though I still had some homosexual urges I decided that the pain it caused me and others wasn't worth giving in to those urges. What if I changed my life style and wanted to warn other of the mess I made of my life by dabbling in a little same-sex slap and tickle. THEN I suppose that smearing me on the blog would be OK???
What if I tried religion and found that I hated it????
Had Rob Regier never taken public swipes at other people, I could feel sorry for him. But the adage about what goes around comes around really does fit this situation.
I'm asking him to tell the truth. No wonder you're physically sick.
Regier either believes what he's spent his time in the state saying or he doesn't.
Regier either respects the woman whose abortion he paid his "half" of or he doesn't.
Regier either believes the statements made by the Yes on Life campaign or he doesn't.
If the information from every Vote Yes For Life letter and blog is right: Robert Regier increased his ex girlfriend's chances of suicide, may have gotten her hooked on cocaine, given her cancer, made her visit her doctors 180% times more often, and made her infertile.
Does the ex-girlfriend know he how much he makes per speech talking about god forgiving him for his moment of weakness? Has he ever sent her any of this money he's made talking about her life?
If he believes the statements of the Yes on 6 campaign, he is not a moral man if he is not accepting responsibility for his "past."
Regier's abortion would either have been legal or it would not have been.
Asking Regier if he lives up the standards he is paid to speak about ... is a Christian act.
[What if James Dobson said it would take 5 years to successfully deal with pastor Haggard because ... sigh he's too busy watching Spongebob reruns for secret gay innuendo to deal with him.]
What it it was your family's problem with homosexuality not yours.
If you were a drug addict who spoke about your pusher, and based your living on your past use, and supported specific laws that affected your pusher's possession of drugs but not yours ... the analogy might be closer to that of Regier
If you tried religion and hated it, you need to try harder and find the right cult. Several of the other anon on here probably have one to recommend.
God will judge him on the way he treated his unborn child, and his or her mother ... or perhaps it will be Satan.
I wouldn't dare presume to speak for either.
Thanks for helping us defeat the abortion ban. If it weren't for the whack-factor from the elite cultists (you, Leslee, the bloody fetus trucks, etc.) it would not have lost in a landslide.
Answer them before your friends, your enemies, your family, and your supporters on here.
Tell the truth, and everyone will think more of you.
It's impossible for a rational thread to be conducted by liberals.Time and time again I hear pro-lifers discredited by such phrases as "you've never been in that predicament,or, you men could never get pregnant so what do you know, or, your family must have never been in that tough situatuion or you'd think differently, etc., etc. Now we have a pro-life leader who actually has been in that situation, and you trash him mercilessly, and hound him with nonsensical questions. You CANNOT have it both ways!!
Generalizing about people by pinning liberal or conservative labels is an irrational act in itself. Those of us who have been labeled as liberal have also been called baby killers and murderers because we believe there are instances where women should have choices. Does that mean that 56 percent of South Dakotans who voted against the abortion ban deserve that label?
Is "Mrs. Ellis" taking this too far? To some degree, yes. But some of the points that he or she is making are valid ones.
Rob Regier opened himself up for this criticism. "Judge not, lest ye be judged."
He has no problem telling people about his sinful actions (or pointing fingers at the actions of anyone else).
If the accusations are "cruel" and "sickening" it's because they come from his side of the aisle.
If Bob Ellis, Steve Sibson, and Leslee Unruh are willing to attack the women who have had abortions, they are pointing the finger of guilt at Regier. Oh wait, he's someone they know. The accusations don't apply to the moral "royals" of SD.
If Regier has not addressed the alleged scientific claims of Yes for Life/6 with the ex-girlfriend (let;s call her "Jane Doe"), there are few words to describe how little he cares for his fellow man.
According to Yes for Life, Regier's actions with the woman may have destroyed her life and health. If he believes his own side, for him not to know which (if any) of these results have occurred to the woman is criminal. [Chances of suicide, cocaine and hard drug use, cancer, doctors visits up 180% and infertility.]
If Regier hasn't seen firsthand the damage his business and personal relationship with Jane Doe resulted in as claimed by his defenders, comrades, (or perhaps in the case of Mrs. Unruh,) challengers, he cannot claim to be a moral leader, unless, perhaps his born again-ing absoved him of responsibility for his past actions.
Or is being a moral leader in South Dakota only about being given substantial amounts of money for criticizing others?
My sinful and cowardly actions led me to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls where I brought an ex-girlfriend to have an abortion.
Thankfully, God sent His Son to die for my sins. I've since turned my life over to Christ and now encourage others in my position to choose life instead of death. God has blessed me with many opportunities to take my horrible experience and use it for good. -- Robert Regier
Robert Regier says God forgave him for his abortion.
He does not say whether God forgave the woman whose abortion he paid for.
He says God forgives abortion.