Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
Ping! Please ping the Catholic list, if you would.
AAR = American Academy of Religion
Thank you very much for this great after action report.
Citizen Media reporting at its finest.
Shared with all my friends across the country.
In St. Cloud, MN we had about 350 at our rally for religious freedom. Although the local newspaper announced the rally in the Thursday paper and referenced the Tea Party as organizers, they were incorrect as the local Knights of Columbus were the most influential organizers. It was a great turnout after a morning of drizzle.
One of my friends called the newspaper office to report the large gathering and “were they intending to cover the rally?” The response was, “Oh, yes we heard there was going to be a group of people going to Al Franken’s office today.”
They did not cover the rally and never showed up to take any photos or interview anyone. A local radio station had good coverage and interviewed four of the people on air following the rally - for 20 minutes. Thank God for local talk radio.
Our local newspaper always shows photos of anti-war demonstrators even if there are only 5-10 people with signs along a highway.
I am certain that the majority of local people have no idea that we had such a good turnout and that the event even took place.
A FReeper actually asked me if that is the right word to use to define the HHS mandate. I answered that the --- what can I call it? the 'apparat'? --- apparently expects the Catholic Church to say, "Yes, we believe that these things are moral evils, and yes, we're going to provide them as benefits to our employees."
Church-related organizations --- in fact, all the rest of us, too --- 'must' do that, or pay punitive penalties, or cease to exist.
What else can you call it? Tyranny.
Media blackout ping
