Dr. Alan Keyes Released from Jail -- And Will Bear Witness on Notre Dame Campus Again

Contact: Sue Cyr, 904-687-9804; stopobamanotredame.com

SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- Dr. Alan Keyes and 20 peaceful pro-lifers were arrested yesterday after they walked onto Notre Dame's campus praying the rosary and pushing baby strollers carrying baby dolls covered in "stage blood" to protest the invitation of Notre Dame to President Obama to deliver the commencement address at this year's graduation.

Dr. Keyes will be leading peaceful witnesses again on campus this coming Tuesday and Friday -- and is calling on others to join him.

Dr. Keyes said upon being released from jail, "I went on campus to bear witness to the truth that the invitation by the University of Notre Dame to Barack Obama is a travesty and abomination against the truth that is characteristic to our Catholic and Christian faith. Obama's actions deserve condemnation, not honor.

"I am issuing a call to everyone of like mind that we must come together now to bear witness to the world, to send a message to destroy this scandal and spread the truth of the Christians' dedication to life.

"I am going back on campus to prayerfully bear witness. Come, join me, let us trespass together so that in our trespasses we might find ourselves fully in obedience to the will of God."

Dr. Keyes released a statement before his arrest explaining why he was willing to be arrested, and can be read at www.StopObamaNotreDame.com.

Last Thursday, pro-lifers began to arrive from around the country to push the strollers with Dr. Keyes, and face the ire of Notre Dame officials, as well as arrest. Most of those risking arrest are from Notre Dame; but pro-life advocates from Washington D.C., Michigan, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico and Ohio have also arrived.

Randall Terry, www.StopObamaNotreDame.com organizer states:

"Dr. Keyes presence has catapulted this battle to a new level. If we have 100 or more people going to jail over the next week protesting this blatant evil, it may derail Obama's speech, and it will be a message that reaches America, the Vatican, and the world. This is a critical moment to wake people up!

"We are asking our pro-life friends to join us in jail, or at least to come and stand with us in the streets. Please join us for prayerful witness events on campus this coming Tuesday and Friday."

For more information, and for media personnel that want to be updated, call 904-687-9804.

See www.StopObamaNotreDame.com

Perhaps Keyes and company felt there was no place left to go after the liberals have been getting away with the tactics you decry for decades. Fire with fire if reason and common sense no longer apply. And no, I never want to see it come to that.

61 posted on 05/09/2009 10:35:56 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus

Never listened to the speeches/debates. Obama is a classical Narcisstic Personality Disorder type IMHO.

62 posted on 05/10/2009 1:57:16 AM PDT by Lumper20

To: NewRomeTacitus

Randall Terry has been using those tactics for more than 20 years. They were a colossal failure.

63 posted on 05/10/2009 4:18:40 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (Bush's recession, Obama's depression.)

It means "for crying out loud," and if you think I'm simply being dramatic then you really, truly don't understand the way outsiders look upon the Catholic Church. How ND treats zero does matter, and it does effect, adversely, the cause of pro-lifers. In bestowing honor--HONOR!!!--upon a man who seeks to remove ALL impediments to a woman's "right" to murder the baby within her, ND is giving credence to his holocaustal beliefs. I live in a neighborhood of mostly non-Catholics, mostly zero-supporters, and they love that "a Catholic university seems to agree with what the President believes." Those aren't my words. I'm quoting a neighbor.

You think I'm being dramatic? Friend, you need to get out more.

64 posted on 05/10/2009 11:32:52 AM PDT by grellis (I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)

65 posted on 05/10/2009 11:45:26 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

Pinged from Terri Dailies

66 posted on 05/10/2009 4:34:19 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

This is what must be done. Peaceful protests, and peaceful resistance to ungodly laws, and lawmakers.

We must show our dissent! So many in the USA do not speak up, because they do not realise that there are many who believe as they do.

Pray that the Lord will show you what you too can do to cast our these demons from your place in the world.

By the way, Happy Mother’s Day to all those women who dared to take on the task!

67 posted on 05/10/2009 5:35:35 PM PDT by tuckrdout (~ 'Daily example is the most subtle of poisons.' ~)

68 posted on 05/10/2009 5:40:58 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)

To: Graybeard58; pissant

Like taking a sledge hammer to a piss ant.

FR courtesy ping

69 posted on 05/10/2009 6:19:01 PM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine Private First Class - 1/16/09 - Parris Island, SC)

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