should be allowed next to the Ten Commandments on public property?
Posted on 11/06/2014 10:40:10 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Roman Catholic leaders have sent e-mails of warning to dozens of Washington and Maryland priests after protesters with bullhorns yelling anti-Catholic slogans appeared at several parishes and in a couple of cases “stormed the inside of the church just before Mass,” a bishop-administrator wrote in the e-mail.
A spokeswoman with the Archdiocese of Washington, which oversees 139 parishes in the District and suburban Maryland, said Wednesday that “really small” groups of protesters have appeared on the property of three or four parishes in the past couple of weeks near Mass time. They were shouting at parishioners going in and out and were handing out “fundamentalist” Christian literature, said Chieko Noguchi.
She would not identify the parishes or share the literature or what it said, saying it was unclear whether the protesters had created it or were using something they got elsewhere.
“It was disconcerting,” she said, that protesters would use a worship service as a time to protest.
Police were called Oct. 25 to at least one of the parishes, St. Pius X in Bowie, but the police chief there said no information was available about the group. Messages left with St. Pius staff were not immediately returned.
But the Rev. Mike Jones, pastor at St. Pius, described the incident in the parish’s Nov. 2 bulletin.
“We don’t have to go to the other side of the world to experience religious extremists,” wrote Jones, describing parishioners leaving Saturday’s 5 p.m. Mass. “We were assaulted by shouting and hatred being spewed by protesters standing at both our driveways. Armed with megaphones and brandishing signs, these ‘christians’ ranted for more than 30 minutes about everything they view as ‘evils’ of our Catholic faith. They attacked our dogmas, teachings, practices and leaders, including Pope Francis! Who are they? We don’t yet know.”
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Other than that, though, yeah, it was exactly the same.
When someone left anti-Catholic literature on Karl Keating's windshield, he was prompted to found Catholic Answers.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
In Oklahoma City the RCC conducted an assault in the media and in the civil courts when the claims of 'theft' were found unsupportable by local law enforcement.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/22/Only-42-Attend-Black-Mass-in-Oklahoma-City-With-Hundreds-of-Christian-Protestors-Outside
Breitbart reported that 400 protestors showed up and that the Catholic folks had set up loudspeakers (which trump a bullhorn).
Don't get me wrong, I disagree with those people, too. But this is the USA and they have just as much right to their worship as we do. And where it is wrong to disrupt a church service it is also wrong to disrupt anyone else's lawful act of worship.
“Given that Catholics did the same thing to the people who held a black mass in Oklahoma then it’s only fair that Catholics should receive the same as they give.”
Protesting against satan = proteststing against God?
smh
Agreed. I would assume anyone bursting into my Church is most likely a terrorist trying to commit a bombing or mass shooting I will act accordingly.
Muslims? Hmm.
Certain FReepers crossed my mind.
Protesting at one person’s worship service is equal to someone else protesting at yours.
This is the USA and we have Equal Protection Under the Law.
That includes equal protection for people we don’t like.
should be allowed next to the Ten Commandments on public property?
Oh, I don't think that's a problem.
Nope. That's not what I think. I think we need to amend the Constitution to clarify that this country is a country founded in the Judeo-Christian tradition and that expressions of that tradition in the public square are specifically consistent with our freedoms and liberties.
Until that time we're stuck with however the courts decide to interpret the 1st and 14th Amendments.
As for the stolen Eucharist, the Satanists themselves claimed they had obtained one for ritual desecration, and when they actually returned it under threat of legal action, the threatened lawsuit was dropped. See this coverage (link)
WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH???
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Once again, law enforcement had no evidence to support a claim of theft. The so-called satanists handed over a wafer after being threatened with a civil lawsuit mostly because a $.25 wafer is easily replaced...as it was.
When this first came up I checked and found several sources online where these wafers could be legally obtained. Claiming that one was 'consecrated' is fine and dandy. It doesn't mean it's true. Satan being the Prince of Lies it would follow that his adherents would not be above lying to provoke a reaction from Catholics.
Really, the best thing that could have been done about the black mass was to ignore it in the media and silently pray for the misguided. Instead the whole proceeding ended up making the RCC look silly and repressive.
And now the protests at the black mass have come home and Catholics are unable to argue that they have a right to be left alone at their worship when Catholics protest at someone else's worship. And I think these two events are linked and that this was the intention of the alleged black mass all along; to facilitate an attack on your church.
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