Buses added for Notre Dame protests
UPDATE, 5/13, 10:10a:I’ve just received word from Steven Brody, exec. dir. of Dubuque Co. Right to Life, that the Iowa bus is full, too.
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UPDATE, 5/12, 3:31p: Just spoke with Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League. The South Side bus is full, and it is too late to add more. The Aurora bus has 1 seat left. A bus has been added only for the North Side departure.
Eric has also been receiving calls expressing concern about getting arrested in light of recent altercations at Notre Dame. (Read about them here and here.)
Eric wants picketers assured this will be a peaceful, law-abiding protest on public property with no expectation of arrest. PLAL has been issued proper permits from the City of South Bend.
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Response for pro-life buses travelling from both the Chicago and Detroit areas to protest Notre Dame’s commencement honoree President Barack Obama this Sunday has been greater than expected, and buses are being added.
Popular Catholic radio talk show host Teresa Tomeo and her husband Dominick Pastore will travel with CPLS to ND.
CPLS and PLAL will join forces to picket.
If you are driving to South Bend on your own, park at St. Joseph High School at 1441 N. Michigan St. You can connect with the CPLS/PLAL protests here:
10:30a to 1p EST: A Face the Truth Tour will be held off campus along Angela Boulevard and Michigan St leading up to commencement time
2p to 3p EST: Protesters will join the prayer vigil led by Fr. Frank Pavone at the Grotto on the ND campus
[Image attribution: AIPNews.com]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
This is very exciting news! Obama has energized pro life people like no one else ever has.
And I love this:
“Eric wants picketers assured this will be a peaceful, law-abiding protest on public property with no expectation of arrest. PLAL has been issued proper permits from the City of South Bend.”
No Spongebob dolls covered in fake blood, just peaceful protest with no one trying to get arrested.
Also Thursday is pro life day in Canada.
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/march2009/
Rallies are going to be held in many cities across Canada. It will be exactly 40 years ago that abortion was legalized in Canada and I’m ashamed to say we now have no abortion laws whatsoever.
My church is hosting a prayer vigil prior to the rally and a dinner to raise funds for pro life in the evening.
Fox is reporting that only 20-50 of the 1800 graduating seniors are expected to boycott BO’s babble.
Pathetic.
20-50 boycotting their college graduation ceremony, in the face of overwhelming social pressure to attend (from staff, cultural expectations, graduate’s family members, etc.) is HUGE!
20-50 boycotting their college graduation ceremony, in the face of overwhelming social pressure to attend (from staff, cultural expectations, graduate’s family members, etc.) is HUGE!
Posted by: Milehimama at May 12, 2009 4:49 PM
I agree! And I think the number may be higher than that.
If I were a draduating senior at Notre Dame, I would have already communicated in writing my embarassment and disappointment at the administrations decision to invite pbho to speak and my revulsion at the decision to ‘honor’ him with a degree at my graduation.
This act of blind indifference, by the university administration to the hideous policies that pbho espouses and advances, and utter disregard for the faith that informs my conscience, deminishes the value of the degree that I worked so hard to ‘earn’ from this formerly illustrious institution.
I would stand in silence with my back turned to the platfrom while pbho addressed the crowd or I would stand and walk out when pbho rose to walk to the lectern.
The ‘tolerant liberal intellectuals’ who have no concern for the conscience of those who do not share their unfettered enfatuation might understand then, that though pbho has been given the freedom to speak, he has not earned nor does he deserve the honor of being heard by me or the people who have come to honor me at my graduation.
To sit and remain silent, while pbho reads from a teleprompter things he has not written, and may or may even not believe at the moment, is to give the appearace of assent to the evil which he represents.
yor bro ken
Yes 1-2% is HUGE, I expect that number will miss the ceremony due to hangovers or sleeping late.
Yes 1-2% is HUGE, I expect that number will miss the ceremony due to hangovers or sleeping late.
Yes, but there is a difference between inertia and resistance. One is not setting the alarm, the other a definitive stand for life.
OT
Have you seen this story?
gender based abortions in Sweden legal
“gender based abortions in Sweden legal”
Apparently the medical board didn’t want to bother with ethical considerations….. we can only hope that they make the abortions soooooo expensive that they will be rare.
I’m sorry, I just have such disdain for that heartless, genocidal fool, it turns my stomach to picture him speaking and being promoted at such an honorable occasion.
And the fact that only 2-3% of the graduating class would find that objectionable I believe is a sad indictment against the Church and the University. They’ve seen the images of the aborted babies, right? Abortion has been the talk of the campus. They’ve had students debate the morality of child-killing.
2-3%?
If Fox is right, that would demonstrate just how far our nation has fallen from its Christian heritage.
Pathetic.
2-3% corresponds perfectly with the 97% of graduates who wanted Obama to speak. Too bad the outside agitators couldn’t just let the grads and their families alone, rather than attempt to mar the occasion with a publicity stunt/circus.
Bystander,
What do you think of the short clip on http://www.abortionNO.org?
“And the fact that only 2-3% of the graduating class would find that objectionable I believe is a sad indictment against the Church and the University. They’ve seen the images of the aborted babies, right? Abortion has been the talk of the campus. They’ve had students debate the morality of child-killing.”
Maybe we can dispense with the argument that “if only people knew the truth about abortion they would oppose it.” People know, they just don’t agree with you. Even at a Catholic University.
Hal,
You haven’t mustered the courage to review the clip, have you?
Good night Bystander & Hal,
I’ll check for your replies in the morning to see if you’ve found the courage to seek the truth.
Ed, I know “the truth.”
Good night
Maybe we can dispense with the argument that “if only people knew the truth about abortion they would oppose it.” People know, they just don’t agree with you. Even at a Catholic University.
Posted by: Hal at May 12, 2009 10:59 PM
The truth about abortion is it is the taking of an innocent life. None more innocent than an unborn baby. How do you justify that?
An example of pbho’s recent failed attempt at humor from the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
pbho, speaking to an adulating audience of ‘journalists’ and fellow travelers:
“Sasha and Malia aren’t here tonight because they are grounded. You can’t just take Air Force One on a joyride around Manhattan. I don’t care whose kids you are.”
[Did pbho just throw his daughters under the campaign bus?]
“And that reminds me: Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. This is a tough holiday for Rahm. He’s not used to saying the word ‘day’ after ‘mother.’”
[Barrakman and the Boy Wonder, Rahmbin]
Remember, just days before, thousands of startled New Yorkers were fleeing in fear from high rise buildings at the mere sight of Airforce One trailed by a military fighter jet while flying at a low altitude over the New York skyline.
What is it the manhaters like to say about misogynists?
Oh yeah, I remember.
“He just doesn’t (is unable to) get ‘it’.”
“Mr. President, are you punch drunk?” or stoned or high?
Are you oblivious to the fact that three of the aircraft from the Air Force of which you are Commander In Chief are buzzing ‘The Big Apple’?
This contemptible stab at humor is the only public comment that pbho has made about the aforementioned incident.
Un-named White House sources speaking on condition of anonymity tell us pbho is ‘furious’ at being embarassed. But not enough to publicly apologize to the citizens of New York city.
yor bro ken
ps: pbho did comment on Michelles right to bear her arms. No mention of her buns of stealth.
Good morning Hal,
I agree, deep down, you do know the truth. Which is precisely why you can’t bring yourself to watch the video. Tragically, you and your wife were deceived into murdering your own children.
But Hal, the Good News is that you have hope. You see all of us have made mistakes, all of us have regrets. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. He is our Redeemer, which means that when Justice says we are guilty, and our sentence is death, He served that sentence for us, He paid our debt, with His Own Blood.
And forgiveness is just the beginning Hal. When you receive Christ’s Love, He blesses you with His Presence, His Peace. You will know that you’ve passed from death to Life. You become a new person, adopted into God’s Family, Jesus’ little brother, and a son of God.
All you have to do is say, “Jesus, I repent for all of my sin. I believe You died for me. Come into my heart. Wash me with Your blood.”
If you will pray that simple prayer, you will receive forgiveness for all your sins, inherit eternal life and become a member of God’s Family.
You’ve got everything to gain, and nothing to lose.
What do you say? Will you pray with me? (Of course, you don’t have to wait for me, you can go to Him yourself and meet Him right where you are.)
Hal,
You should also know that your children are in Heaven, hoping that you and your wife come to know Jesus’ Love and Forgiveness. They are waiting to greet you when your time on Earth is done.
Ed
Ken 12:03am
Come on already. You know the president knew nothing about AF1 being in the air. It happens all the time. Some dumb schlub in the WH is responsible for all this, he apparently ordered the planes into the air. His mistake was that he could have photoshopped those pictures at no cost to the taxpayer instead of ordering all those planes into the air.
Get with the program Ken! Our fearless leader knew nothing.
Joanne, we are becoming Canada. I’m sorry to read that. I had no idea that it had been legal for 40 years! And you guys have that Henry Morgantaler, don’t you?
Interesting discussion.
First off, I think only 20 to 50 students boycotting is tragic and pathetic.
Secondly, I have to agree with Hal re his statement:
“Maybe we can dispense with the argument that “if only people knew the truth about abortion they would oppose it.” People know, they just don’t agree with you. Even at a Catholic University.
Posted by: Hal at May 12, 2009 10:59 PM
I agree because this is what they have learned at home – a home which should be catholic but is evidently NOT. These are “catholic” homes in which the parents likely contracepted and in which there are few children – the children that they “planned”.
The profound failure of the previous generation of priests and bishops to instruct the faithful in their faith, to confront evils such as abortion and contraception in the public square, and to reprimand those publicly straying and thereby leading others to sin has come home to roost.
These evils should have been vigorously confronted back in the sixties. Instead we got the message “God loves you.”
I personally think if I was a graduand at ND, I would rise during BHO’s speech and turn my back. Another option would be to receive the degree with red tape across the mouth. Some action that is non-confrontational but does get the message across.
500 students doing this would be very nice indeed.
angel, I have to agree!!
It is ironic that even among the very small minority of students who support the boycott there is not a shred of support for the circus,(planes, bloody dolls, posters), which they view as an unfortunate distraction from the issues.
It is clear the publicity stunt/circus is only supported by the participants, who desperately seek attention by angering and offending others, including those who agree with them on abortion.
Who’s attention seeking? The focus is on the unborn. Not us!
Posted by: Bystander at May 13, 2009 7:47 AM:
“…who desperately seek attention by angering and offending others…”
You would never dream of doing such a thing, would you? Let’s see…
Posted by: Bystander at May 12, 2009 7:59 PM
“Yes 1-2% is HUGE, I expect that number will miss the ceremony due to hangovers or sleeping late.”
Drop the fake outrage. You’re merely bothered that people are passionately protesting something that you support. I highly doubt that if people were protesting something you were strongly against you would be accusing them of being offensive attention-seekers.
Fake outrage..I love it, Janette!!!
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