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Topless Activist Jumps on Main Altar at Strasbourg Cathedral to Protest Pope Francis
Life Site News ^ | 11/25/14 | Jeanne Smits

Posted on 11/26/2014 1:29:25 PM PST by marshmallow

Hours before Pope Francis’ visit to the European Parliament and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Tuesday, a Femen protester stripped to the waist and jumped onto the main altar of the town’s cathedral on Monday afternoon waving a European Union flag and multi-colored streamers. She danced on the altar for a full minute before running to the cathedral’s exit, vanishing among the crowd on the cathedral square. The woman’s identity has not been disclosed, nor has she been interrogated or arrested by the police.

The topless protester had painted slogans on her naked torso: “Pope is not a politician” and “Anti-Secular Europe.” Femen’s website called her a “Sextremist” who was attracting attention to the European flag’s new status as a “symbol of the alliance between European institutions and the Catholic Church.”

The European Parliament is “sacrificing secularism” in order to recover some popularity in the present crisis of European institutions, says the communiqué on Femen’s website, accusing it of condoning the “injustices and crimes committed by the Church against women for thousands of years”: “Less radical than his predecessors, pope Francis is slowly positioning himself as a political rock-star while giving the Vatican more credit on the international scene. However we do not forget this fascist ‘State’ got its independence from Mussolini. (…) While trying to appear ‘progressive’ on certain subjects, pope Francis simultaneously encourages anti-abortion, anti-contraception and anti-euthanasia lobbies. Despite appearances, Pope Francis’ Vatican is as retrograde and dangerous as it ever was. (…) Let’s take their churches by force! Religion has nothing to do with politics!”

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1 posted on 11/26/2014 1:29:25 PM PST by marshmallow
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2 posted on 11/26/2014 1:30:56 PM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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3 posted on 11/26/2014 1:31:35 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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This Thread Does Not Need Photo Evidence

TTDNNPE


4 posted on 11/26/2014 1:31:50 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Old Sarge

Mine’s centered!


5 posted on 11/26/2014 1:32:12 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: marshmallow

Stupidbroad.
Ain’t nobody listening to what you’re saying. They are just wondering if you walk around the house like that while you clean it.


6 posted on 11/26/2014 1:34:29 PM PST by envisio (Its on like Donkey Kong!)
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To: marshmallow

Wish they would swarm a mosque or a madrassa.
And stay there.


7 posted on 11/26/2014 1:34:43 PM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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8 posted on 11/26/2014 1:34:56 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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Having seen some prior “FEMEN” protesters in the past, I’m not sure photos would be so welcome.


9 posted on 11/26/2014 1:35:08 PM PST by richmwill
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To: Old Sarge

Mosquito bites with a butterface.


10 posted on 11/26/2014 1:39:46 PM PST by EEGator
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Try that stunt in a mosque bitch.


11 posted on 11/26/2014 1:45:42 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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That is one hot Cathedral...not guilty!


12 posted on 11/26/2014 1:45:47 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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http://www.france24.com/en/20141125-pope-visit-strasbourg-femen-activist-protest-nude-photo-france/


13 posted on 11/26/2014 1:46:26 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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If that’s all they’ve got to get someone’s attention, it’s pretty pathetic.


14 posted on 11/26/2014 1:59:09 PM PST by Trillian
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She used to work at the Flint Michigan Hooters.


15 posted on 11/26/2014 2:02:04 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Old Sarge
Here you go!!!
16 posted on 11/26/2014 2:04:56 PM PST by Organic Panic
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Many RC where jubilant when Pussy Riot desecrated main Orthodox Christian cathedral in Moscow. What goes around, comes around.

Since Department of State and U.S. Ambassador to U.N. support Pussy Riot, I have no reason not to believe they will support Mammary Gland Riot as well.

17 posted on 11/26/2014 2:06:29 PM PST by DTA
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Those breasts don’t even warrant a NSFW label.


18 posted on 11/26/2014 2:10:35 PM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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Who would those people be? Name names.


19 posted on 11/26/2014 2:10:52 PM PST by SpirituTuo
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It would be just as worthless with pics

Women demand to be taken seriously and idiots like these hold them back more than any patriarchy could


20 posted on 11/26/2014 2:13:29 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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