Today, November 27 from 4:00 to 5:15 PM, Wisconsin Christians United will picket the home of Ruthe Badger (3206 Heatherdell Lane, Madison). In her capacity as the Department of Natural Resources South Central Region Director, Badger directly oversees the operation of the DNR's nude beach near Mazomanie, Wisconsin. Rather than act to protect the children who are being exposed to nudity and exposed nude to the voyeurs, exhibitionists, and sexually perverted persons who frequent Mazo nude beach, Ruthe Badger has defended the nudists and looked for ways to harass and hamstring the Christians with WCU who have conducted protests and ministry events on the Mazo beach parking lot. Besides the picket at Badger's home, WCU will distribute a flyer door-to-door in her neighborhood. The flyer is titled "Is One of Your Neighbors an Accessory to Child Abuse?" In addition to exposing Ruthe Badger's complicity in the DNR's corrupt scheme to protect public nudity on the Mazo beach, it will contain the pictures of twelve different children of varying ages being taken to the beach. The twelve are a small percentage of the children who have been taken to the beach to be paraded naked in the presence of hundreds of nude adults, some of whom carry cameras and some of whom have been arrested for sexual crimes at the beach, as evidenced by WCU Freedom of Information searches. Today's picket is the second in a series of pickets which will take place in the neighborhoods of DNR officials.

"Today we take our defense of children and Biblical morality to Ruthe Badger's doorstep. Rather than speak against the perversion of Mazo beach and on behalf of the helpless children taken there, Ruthe has cultivated a warm relationship with the nudists and has spoken in the most disparaging terms against concerned Christians who show love for the children of Mazo."
Pastor Ralph Ovadal, Director, Wisconsin Christians United

"I recognize you and your group's resolve to try to dissuade users of the beach from going there. . . . I assure you that we are more resolved to ensure that one group of people does not infringe on the rights of another group. . . . The beach at Mazomanie has been used by people very peacefully for clothing optional uses . . ."
Ruthe Badger in a June 22, 2001 e-mail to Pastor Ralph Ovadal

"I'll assume that you're not interested in attempting to enact a DNR property rule which bans nudity. . . . The DA has publicly stated that if we have a ban on nudity, they would enforce it."
DNR attorney Michael Lutz in a June 25, 2001 e-mail to Ruthe Badger - obtained by a WCU Freedom of Information search