![“Say No To President Obama Or Throw Me In Jail”
That’s what Obama nemesis and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes told the administration of Notre Dame on Thursday, according to Indiana’s NewsCenter reports. (Video of the on-location interview with Keyes is also available through that link.)
Keyes and about 75 other protesters against abortion and embryonic stem-cell research held a rally at the gates of the Notre Dame campus, reciting the “Hail Mary” and other prayers, pushing strollers of dolls covered in fake blood and listening to Keyes’ firebrand style of speaking.
But when 30 of them entered the campus, further news reports say that 22 (including Keyes) were handcuffed, arrested for trespassing and had to pay a $250 bond to get out of the St. Joseph County jail.
Bishop D’Arcy’s diocese issued a statement saying they do not approve of any attempts to disturb the school’s graduation ceremony or “to drive a wedge between the Bishop of the Diocese and Nortre Dame.”
It’s likely that the Notre Dame class of 2009 will have quite a circus for their commencement exercises. Operation Rescue staged their own protest a week ago. Now Keyes’ merry band. And there doesn’t seem to be any let up in sight.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a plane “trailing a giant photograph of a fetus aborted at 10 weeks” is already flying from now until the ceremony on May 17.
The WSJ article continues:
Below the airplane banner, antiabortion activists who have converged on South Bend are making their point in a more aggressive way. They are driving trucks around the perimeter of the campus and carrying signs outside the main gate showing images of aborted fetuses.
Meanwhile, even practicing Catholic Notre Dame students go soft-spined and tingle-legged at the thought of being in the presence of their Obama—and not wanting to be associated with those meanies who are demonstrating.
The WSJ describes one such student:
Caitlin Conway, a 22-year-old political-science major who attends Mass once a week, says she is excited by Mr. Obama’s appearance. She says she abhors the idea of abortion, but that she and others on campus are largely turned off by Operation Rescue’s tactics and extreme stance.
“I consider myself someone who supports life and wants to protect life wherever possible,” she says, “but I don’t want to identify myself as a pro-life American as [the movement] currently stands.”
That’s right, Caitlin. Don’t let your brain get in the way of your feelings. Don’t use that polysci degree to try to shape the movement as you would like it. Just join the happy herd being led into the stadium. Baaa.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/hRL1vxdt2nblfvj4OSl0v0UGo1_400.jpg)
“Say No To President Obama Or Throw Me In Jail”
That’s what Obama nemesis and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes told the administration of Notre Dame on Thursday, according to Indiana’s NewsCenter reports. (Video of the on-location interview with Keyes is also available through that link.)
Keyes and about 75 other protesters against abortion and embryonic stem-cell research held a rally at the gates of the Notre Dame campus, reciting the “Hail Mary” and other prayers, pushing strollers of dolls covered in fake blood and listening to Keyes’ firebrand style of speaking.
But when 30 of them entered the campus, further news reports say that 22 (including Keyes) were handcuffed, arrested for trespassing and had to pay a $250 bond to get out of the St. Joseph County jail.
Bishop D’Arcy’s diocese issued a statement saying they do not approve of any attempts to disturb the school’s graduation ceremony or “to drive a wedge between the Bishop of the Diocese and Nortre Dame.”
It’s likely that the Notre Dame class of 2009 will have quite a circus for their commencement exercises. Operation Rescue staged their own protest a week ago. Now Keyes’ merry band. And there doesn’t seem to be any let up in sight.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a plane “trailing a giant photograph of a fetus aborted at 10 weeks” is already flying from now until the ceremony on May 17.
The WSJ article continues:
Below the airplane banner, antiabortion activists who have converged on South Bend are making their point in a more aggressive way. They are driving trucks around the perimeter of the campus and carrying signs outside the main gate showing images of aborted fetuses.
Meanwhile, even practicing Catholic Notre Dame students go soft-spined and tingle-legged at the thought of being in the presence of their Obama—and not wanting to be associated with those meanies who are demonstrating.
The WSJ describes one such student:
Caitlin Conway, a 22-year-old political-science major who attends Mass once a week, says she is excited by Mr. Obama’s appearance. She says she abhors the idea of abortion, but that she and others on campus are largely turned off by Operation Rescue’s tactics and extreme stance.
“I consider myself someone who supports life and wants to protect life wherever possible,” she says, “but I don’t want to identify myself as a pro-life American as [the movement] currently stands.”
That’s right, Caitlin. Don’t let your brain get in the way of your feelings. Don’t use that polysci degree to try to shape the movement as you would like it. Just join the happy herd being led into the stadium. Baaa.
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