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Posted on 02/16/2012 7:44:04 PM PST by massmike
Six pro-life activists, including one Catholic priest, were arrested this morning in front of the White House while holding a peaceful prayer vigil in protest against the Obama administration’s birth control mandate. They were released shortly thereafter, after paying a $100 fine.
Fr. Denis Wilde, the Associate Director of Priests for Life, told LifeSiteNews that by their arrests the protesters hoped to send a “wake-up call” to President Obama that opposition to his mandate is not going away.
The six were arrested on a charge of “disobeying a lawful order.” The priest explained that while it is legal to hold protests in front of the White House, protesters are not allowed to remain stationary, including if they kneel down and pray.
“Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel in prayer, the police are called in and we are arrested,” Father Wilde said.
A note on the Facebook page of Fr. Pavone of Priests for Life prior to the protest said that the protesters at the prayer vigil Thursday morning expected to meet with arrest, but said that “civil disobedience is called for.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
I doubt that OWS ever had anybody kneel, sit, or whatever on the White House steps, but still. This is chicken merde.
There should be thousands there. Perhaps it will grow.
I wonder if Obama and Pelosi will come out and support their peaceful protest like they did the Occupiers’?
Maybe the protest should be against ‘UNIVERSAL’ health care, instead being against one thread of the blanket.
Maybe the protest should be against OBAMA!!!!! and what he is doing to this country!!!!!!...He’s a puppet and does what George Soros tells him to do..... God will get you Obama!!
Is it constitutional under the 1st amendment to arrest a priest for kneeling to pray as a form of peaceful protest in front of the WH? Why or why not?
There is supposedly a law restricting “stationary” protests in front of the WH. Protesters must keep moving. This priest kneeled to pray and was arrested.
Maybe they warn the Occupy protestors--you can stay motionless on federal property as long as you don't pray.
That reminds me of a story I read that comes from the day when some Catholic churches had "pew fees"--people were supposed to make a small donation (maybe five or ten cents--I never encountered this myself). A man forgot his hat on the pew and realized it when he was just about to leave the church. He turned around and the usher wanted him to pay the fee if he was going to go to a pew, but he explained he had forgotten his hat and was just going back to get it. The usher relented: "OK, you can get your hat, but mind you, no praying while you are there!"
you can’t remain stationary?
LOL!!!
So if the priests walked in circles while banging on bangos it would’ve been hunkydory?
Pictures and Story of Priests, Pastors and Pro-lifers being arrested for praying in front of White House over Obama Contraception Mandate
Just imagine Obama ordering mosques to buy their employees pork barbeque for lunch during Ramadan. Same thing!
Thanks.
“So if the priests walked in circles while banging on bangos it would’ve been hunkydory?”
Yep. Where is the Falun Gong sect when you need them?
Bishops should organize 20,000 Catholics to kneel and pray outside he White Hut. Maybe 20,000 Baptists would join them. Then another 40 or 50,000 from other denominations.
Just kneeling and praying.
On the Laura Ingraham show this morning there was an interview with bio-ethicist Dorlinda Bordlee, who has been studying Obamacare, and stated that this is a two-step: This August mandatory contraceptive contribution,
in summer of 2014, mandatory abortion coverage, but so that it will not violate the ban on federal funding of abortion,Everyone will be forced to pay an add-on fee to cover the abortions of other people, as in “write a check”:
No free speech for Catholics?
Maybe they should have a little “wagon” of sorts where some are kneeling and praying on it’s platform and someone is gently pulling them along.
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