Posted on 05/01/2009 1:37:40 PM PDT by wagglebee
CHICAGO, May 1, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In response to the University of Notre Dame's invitation to President Barack Obama to deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 17, the Pro-Life Action League has erected two large billboards located near the South Bend, Ind., campus.
The billboards, to go up May 4 on the Indiana Toll Road, Interstate 80/90, will read, "NOTRE DAME: Obama is pro abortion choice. How dare you honor him," along with a picture of a baby in utero sucking its thumb. They also will list a Web address, NotreDameProtest.com, where visitors can get information on the protests planned during the graduation weekend at Notre Dame.
"These billboards will be seen by hundreds of thousands of motorists, including most of the families coming to Notre Dame for the graduation exercises," said Eric Scheidler, the League's communications director. "They will help make the direct and irrefutable connection between Barack Obama and abortion."
The League and its national director Joe Scheidler, a Notre Dame alumnus and former teacher there, already have called on the university's president, Rev. John Jenkins, to rescind his invitation to Obama. They have protested at the university, and have said they will return to decry Obama's appearance on May 17 if Jenkins' invite stands. Nearly 60 Catholic bishops and scores of pro-life leaders have written Jenkins, urging him to cancel Obama's talk, or otherwise protested his decision.
"As scandalous as the Obama invitation is, it presents us with a welcome opportunity to highlight Barack Obama's pro-abortion record--something which was largely concealed by the Obama campaign and the media during last year's campaign," Scheidler said. "Obama's extreme pro-abortion agenda is out of step with the majority of Americans, and that news is finally getting out, thanks to this controversy."
One of the League's billboards will be located on Interstate 80/90 east, half a mile east of the Elkhart exit No. 92, about 15 miles east of the Notre Dame exit, and the other on Interstate 80/90 west near Rolling Prairie, about 25 miles west of the Notre Dame exit. The League has rented the two billboards for 30 days each, so they will be in place for two weeks leading up to the Notre Dame commencement, as well as two weeks afterward.
The Michigan-based pro-life group, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, also contributed to the cost of the billboards.
Awesome!
If Neal Boortz thinks every woman in the United States is pro-abortion, what does that make him? I wonder how many of his children have gone down the drain?
It is a shame Indiana Can’t help..
Go there to get the details on upcoming protests and to give them an attaboy.
Will do! On my way! Thanks for this awesome update!
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I haven't visited Boortz's site in years. I don't care what he says or thinks.
Thank you Mrs. Don-O. I’m not a Catholic, but this even rubs me the wrong way. The staff at Notre Dame should know better.
A billboard with “What if Norte Dame, Mary, had aborted her child?” might work.
bttt
Oh Yeah!
Villanova won’t Put the Pieta donated by a Prolife Alumnus because it will offend some students.....
St Joes has Chrissy Matthews as a speaker pathetic!!!!!
He doesn’t want to mess with Randall... trust me.
Pre-viable and post-viable.
I’m sure Bo and his fellow socialists consider this message hate speech since they hate the truth being exposed.
Or of a mental disorder...necessitating immediate hospitalization (that would, after all, be a really efficient way for them to do whatever they want. After all, a prisoner has rights. A patient doesn't)
The Pope certainly can get involved, big time. He is the top of the chain of command, the bishops answer to him.
Certainly he can do plenty to show his disapproval of the entire debacle.
He may not be able to stop it, but he can encourage his clergy and flock to 1. not be in attendance, and 2. He can end Vatican support of ND if it exists and ask Catholics to cease giving to the institution.
The institution would suffer greatly because of his actions on this.
That should do it.
If you don’t respect life, society breaks down.
Without life, there’s nothing.
People will see soon... the Groningen Protocol is coming to America. People missed in a prior bill 4 million for comparative research on cutting costs re: healthcare... as in rationing (as Nancy would say re: abortion, cutting costs), only it will be the elderly (no SSec. to pay, get the retirement, property), the disabled (because don’t you know they’re a burden, see Schiavo), might as well sell the organs (they have no use for them, they already have a thriving fetal tissue trade for research) and next thing you know, like Holland... up to 12 years old will be on the kill list (which btw, three doctors decide, not the parents, family or caretaker, same for the others).
Now THAT'S a message with punch.
I have also given up on Boortz. He is notorious for denouncing Christians as a group. Funny how he is so sure he is right about abortion but doesn’t have the guts to allow anyone to discuss it on his show. What does that tell you?
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