Pro-life activists wreak havoc on New Orleans’ pro-abortion peace
This week 300 members of the groups Operation Save America and Abolish Human Abortion have descended on New Orleans for OSA’s annual gathering and to remind the pro-abortion world, “No justice, no peace.”
Holding prayer meetings by night and prayer vigils by day, the pro-life/abolitionist activists have been busy – protesting two abortion clinics, a Planned Parenthood construction site, the homes of two abortionists (Mary Gardner and Roshanda Dean), the day care business of an abortion clinic manager (yes, you read that right), a pro-abortion church, and more. I can’t keep up. They also held a wake for an aborted baby.
The abortion crowd has responded by sending “[h]undreds of residents, students, and pro-choice volunteers… to support doctors, clinics, and patients,” according to Ms. Magazine.
So if you follow the news, you know the home of the Mardi Gras has been a different kind of wild this week.
In the midst of the mayhem there has been at least one moment of comedic relief, when New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu issued a Certificate of Recognition to OSA leader Rev. Flip Benham for “Outstanding service to the City of New Orleans, which he later said was given “in error” and rescinded.
A Los Angeles Times writer is asking, “Where’s the outrage?” among conservatives after OSA/AHA disrupted the Sunday church service of New Orleans’ United Universalist Church, a denomination she admits is “among the most liberal of organized religions,” i.e., radically and inexplicably pro-abortion.
The church’s pastor accused pro-life activists of “terroriz[ing] children,” even as she and her church support tearing them limb from limb. You won’t get any condemnation from me for holding their blasphemous feet to the fire while there’s still time to repent.
Pro-lifers spotlighted another disgusting contradiction when they held a protest yesterday at Brown Bear Child Care Center, owned by Javonne Turner, who runs Delta Abortion Clinic on the side, believe it or not. Parents need to know their children are being watched by a child killer…
Also at this particular OSA gathering, Flip Benham handed over the reigns of leadership to Rusty Thomas. I’ll forever be indebted to these two stalwarts for holding a prayer vigil in front of Christ Hospital when news broke it was committing live birth abortions. I pray for more of their boldness.
For an example of pro-abortion revulsion at this week’s OSA/AHA activities in New Orleans, watch MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s shocked and appalled segment from last night.
[Top photo via nola.com, photo of Fr. Frank Pavone blessing a victim of abortion via OSA; photo of certificate via Cal Zastrow on Facebook; photo of abolitionists in front of Unitarian Universalist Church via AHA on Facebook; poster of Javonne Turner via Leslie Hanks on Facebook; photo of protest at Brown Bear Child Care via thecreole.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.
Good for you all!
Just think of the Heavenly hijinks it took to get that Certificate of Appreciation issued to Flip!
Really, Heaven – and NOLA – appreciates every prolifer who put themselves out there for the women and children of Louisiana. God Bless You!
Awesome! Thank you Flip, Rusty, Cal, Russell, Ken & Jo, Leslie, and everyone else there, and Jill for putting this event into such clear perspective.
LOVE IT!!! Keep spreading truth and shining light in the darkness!!
I cannot take my eyes off of that precious little baby. So small and vulnerable and beautiful and perfect. God have mercy on us for not protecting the weakest among us.
I MISS U GUYS!! :)
The Unitarians deny many tenets of Christianity, including the Trinity, so many question whether they are even Christian or not.
This Javonne person supports the killing of her future clients I guess.
The Unitarians may “welcome” Christians to their “association” (their word, not mine), but their “ideology” is not “Christian.” They profess 7 “principles” which are listed here (from their web site).
1)The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
2)Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
3)Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
4)A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
5)The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
6)The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
7)Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
Nowhere do they profess a “belief” in any “God” or even “greater being.” They just seem to think everyone can believe whatever they wish. One could also question whether their “principles” include respect for religious freedom since they believe in the “democratic process” in society, in other words “majority rules.” Does that mean that we all have to abide by the opinion of the majority even if we hold other beliefs? Given their “principles,” I find it ironic that they continue to fight for gay marriage even though every state that has voted on it has voted to defend traditional marriage.
They go on to say that they “[welcome] people who identify with Atheism and Agnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, Humanism, Judaism, Earth-Centered Traditions, Hinduism, Islam, and more” and that they “[embody] a vision ‘beyond belief:'”.
That seems pretty obviously not Christian to me. You can draw your own conclusions.
I suspect that Jill Stanek’s Blog has a wider readership than Ms. Magazine.
Thanks for the the information, Bryan. I often wonder about Scientology. Are they supposed to be Christian? They never mention God or a higher being at all.
You won’t get any condemnation from me for holding their blasphemous feet to the fire while there’s still time to repent.
Further confirmation of my theory that one of our best bulwarks against a Christian theocracy is the reality that sooner or later, Christians will always turn on each other.
Hey, Catholics? Once you’ve outlived your usefulness to the evangelicals, those blasphemous feet are going to be yours.
Scientology is a cult and they are pro abotion!
Great piece Jill! Thanks for the cutting through the lies and deception to give us the truth.
And congratulations for being chided by LisaC for supporting these groups as they confront the wickedness and deception of these pro child killing ‘Christians’. Blessed are you when you are persecuted for righteousness sake.
We have an obligation to confront these false teachers as they handle God’s Holy Word with depraved indifference and their recklessness is leading millions to eternal destruction.
We have an obligation to confront these false teachers as they handle God’s Holy Word with depraved indifference and their recklessness is leading millions to eternal destruction.
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean: one of the most sociologically interesting things about Christianity is that so many Christians don’t oppose persecution, but rather, aspire to be the persecutors. Some scholars think that the beliefs you’ve just expressed indicate that Christianity is intolerant at its very foundations, and any Christian government will inevitably become religiously oppressive.
Hey, Catholics! Anyone who thinks that Unitarians don’t have a right to worship unmolested thinks that you don’t either. Unfortunately, the converse is probably also true.
When the article says the pro-lifers “disrupted the services of the unitarian church”, does that mean they went inside the church and interrupted the services? That’s a bit unclear. I’d hope not, as we do rightly complain when pro-aborts do it to us. We cannot engage in double-standards, if that’s the case.
If “disrupt” merely means the attendees were in an uproar over what they saw outside, that’s another matter.
Thanks Jill.
It was a marvelous week. On their busiest day of the week for murdering, Saturday, both New Orleans mills were closed. The deathpit in Metairie didn’t murder all week. This is only the second week in the last 30 years that they haven’t murdered. The deathpit in nearby Baton Rouge was closed all week as well. Glory!
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When the article says the pro-lifers “disrupted the services of the unitarian church”, does that mean they went inside the church and interrupted the services?…If “disrupt” merely means the attendees were in an uproar over what they saw outside, that’s another matter.
They figured out from the outside which room was the nursery and plastered the windows with pictures of bloody fetuses while yelling that the church was killing babies (what the pastor meant by “terrorizing children”).
They also entered the sanctuary, waited until a moment of silence was held for a cancer victim, and began screaming, “ABOMINATION! YOU’RE GOING TO HELL!”
Enjoy the preview, Catholics. This could be you someday.
If indeed they did what LisaC said they did, those actions cannot be condoned.
[…] Court’s buffer zone decision, pro-life activists seem energized, as evidenced, I think, by events the past few days in New […]
About Flip and Rusty having their certificates of welcome from the mayor being given in ‘error’, a friend wrote:
Trip to OSA, New Orleans;$425. Key to the city; $19. Punking the mayors office; PRICELESS.
I’m not sure why Lisa C singles out Catholics when she said whar happened could be a preview for us. I point out that neither Operation Save Amerecia nor Abolish Human Abortion are under direction of Catholics.
“I’m not sure why Lisa C singles out Catholics…”
My guess is she loves when Evangelicals and Catholics bicker over tactics (or religion) instead of actively fight abortion in their own ways. She’s pathetically and repeatedly trying to start something. Happily, it looks like she’s failed.
The truth was shared in New Orleans, last week.
Now you who live in Louisiana, are responsible to do something about stopping this abomination, abortion!
I’m not sure why Lisa C singles out Catholics when she said whar happened could be a preview for us. I point out that neither Operation Save Amerecia nor Abolish Human Abortion are under direction of Catholics.
Yes, I know they’re not directed by Catholics. On the AHA’s side, at least, that’s because they hate Catholicism. They think it is idolatry, which means they hate it much more than they hate liberal Protestantism. Toby Harmon, an AHA leader who was at the Unitarian church protest, has said that Catholicism is satanic. My point is that if they think there’s nothing wrong with interrupting a Unitarian service to scream that everyone there is going to Hell, they’re not going to think there’s anything wrong with interrupting a Mass to scream that everyone is going to Hell. Obviously they’re not going to do that while they think Catholics are useful. If Catholics ever cease to be useful, that will be a different story.
She’s pathetically and repeatedly trying to start something. Happily, it looks like she’s failed.
Yes, I’m trying to start a teeny, tiny bit of opposition to the idea that it’s okay to enter a house of worship and scream curses at a congregation engaged in peaceful prayer as long as you think those people are blasphemers. You might be happy that there is no such opposition. I’m disturbed and, to be honest, a little surprised. I expected people living in the 21st century US to at least pay lip service to the principle that people have a right to engage in prayer on private property without harassment.
“Yes, I’m trying to start a teeny, tiny bit of opposition to the idea that it’s okay to enter a house of worship and scream curses at a congregation engaged in peaceful prayer as long as you think those people are blasphemers.”
Oh, well if that’s what you’re going for, mission accomplished: Janet Baker says: “If indeed they did what LisaC said they did, those actions cannot be condoned.”
Just as I am trying to defend peaceful Pro-Life demonstrators [https://www.facebook.com/cdicks1/activity/10203713643594620?comment_id=10203714037724473&offset=0&total_comments=2]from an invalid comparison with the Westboro Baptist Church [?”While some pro-life advocates will continue to resort to violence and hate to get their message across?…?”(http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/saturday-chores-tumblr-tina-grayson-currin/?fb_action_ids=10203713643594620&fb_action_types=og.likes)?], along comes Operation Rescue America, invading a Unitarian Church service in New Orleans. No matter whether you consider Unitarians “Christian” or not, this has immediately given the high ground to pro-choice voices, both in regular media [http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-antiabortion-fanatics-invade-a-church-service-20140723-column.html#page=1] and social media?.
Jill, I am disappointed that you seem to support this. You can hold their “feet to the fire” without disrupting a memorial service or interfering with a church service. Protest outside if you want….
All charity-minded pro-life groups and individuals should immediately disavow and condemn such tactics. And I call on the membership and leaders of ORA to humbly admit their wrong doing and apologize.
Oh, well if that’s what you’re going for, mission accomplished
Yes. I probably should have aspired to create *more* than a teeny, tiny bit of opposition.
I was the leader of the “Unitarian invasion.” Our plan was to remain quiet and respectful and wait until their coffee time to engage in dialog as to why they support Planned Parenthood. We wanted to share the truth of the Gospel with them and probably get thrown out exposing the lie of “universalism.” That was the plan. That was thwarted when a friend of mine, who joined the group late, used a time of quiet meditation to begin preaching to them. She only quoted scripture. The woman pastor leading the service asked her to leave, which she did. At that point, several others in our group decided to join in.
I don’t know why it happened that way. It was the complete opposite of what we had planned on doing. It was completely spontaneous and unplanned. If you are a Christian and you have ever had to sit through a Unitarian meeting, then you know how awful and anguishing it is. At one point they were praying to sea shells. Some of our OSA “radicals”just had enough and they had to say something in response to our sister being thrown out of the church. In short, I don’t disagree with anything that was said. It was all scriptural. But I would not have done it in that manner. In any case, it was ridiculous and every time I think about it, I laugh.
The AHA guys and I stayed quiet the whole time and were allowed to stay until coffee time. We got to share with the college students in attendance who cane at us like magnets after the service. But then we were threatened and thrown out too. Russell Hunter made a video of it because he happened to have a Go Pro video camera with him. That video is here.
http://www.abolitionism.tv/videos/150/abolitionists-preach-the-gospel-at-unitarian-universalist-church
Much of the version reported by the pro-abortion press and blogosphere is a lie. Can you believe that? They would lie? About us?
Watch the video to see what really happened.
http://www.abolitionism.tv/videos/150/abolitionists-preach-the-gospel-at-unitarian-universalist-church#sthash.yKQIn2cf.dpuf
Unfortunately Jill did not bother to refute the statements by the L.A. Times or the church’s pastor, so that lead me to believe that the reporting was accurate. And, according to Jay Rogers’ comments, the service WAS disrupted, even if that was not the plan.
No matter how much you disagree with someone’s religion, they have a right to freely practice it, and they should be allowed to do so without disruption. As a Catholic I hear about groups that attempt to disrupt Mass to make a statement–if that is wrong, then so was the disruption at the Unitarian service.
We have to be BETTER and more CHARITABLE at all times.
Bring back Crystal Pepsi. :P
Much of the version reported by the pro-abortion press and blogosphere is a lie. Can you believe that? They would lie? About us?
Jay, I’m not sure if you’re lying because you think no one will watch the video or if you’ve simply become untethered from reality, but the video confirms everything that has been reported. It conveniently did not catch the original outburst, but records multiple OSA people shouting at the congregation. It also shows that the AHA people did not remain quiet, but rather, harassed young people during the original disruption, to the point that a young woman had to scream at the cameraman several times to get him to leave her alone. The AHA guys then ignored a minister’s requests that they be quiet, choosing instead to yammer on defending their friend’s indefensible actions while the pastor tried to continue the service. Eventually the AHA guys shut up until the service was over, but when they were asked to leave after upsetting several students, they refused to move until they were physically escorted out.
If you are a Christian and you have ever had to sit through a Unitarian meeting, then you know how awful and anguishing it is
You didn’t have to sit through the meeting. You chose to go to meeting. If it upset you, you should have left.
At one point they were praying to sea shells.
No doubt you’d also say that Catholics pray to plaster and paint. If it upset you, you should have left.
It was the complete opposite of what we had planned on doing. It was completely spontaneous and unplanned
Even if this is true, who cares? The pro-lifers’ behavior was inexcusable, you should all be ashamed of yourselves, and any decent Christian should be embarrassed to admit any connection to you.
In any case, it was ridiculous and every time I think about it, I laugh.
It’s a pity you didn’t live eighteen centuries ago, Jay. You would have had a lot more opportunities to point at funny cultists and laugh at them for singing hymns as people tried to stop them from practicing their faith.
This week 300 members of the groups Operation Save America and Abolish Human Abortion have descended on New Orleans
This is really the only part you need to read. The rest follows from there…
“This is really the only part you need to read. The rest follows from there…”
Yup.
“Hey, Catholics! Anyone who thinks that Unitarians don’t have a right to worship unmolested thinks that you don’t either. Unfortunately, the converse is probably also true.”
Which is why I’m never going to understand why anyone, ever, would want a theocracy or semi-theocratic government, or think that the religious books should be used to make laws. Catholics were historically treated rather badly in a lot of the US, but it wasn’t by non-religious people. Christians on the whole persecute other Christian denominations when they are the majority. It’s awful, and certainly nothing Jesus would want imo.
If AHA and OSA ever got in charge of anything important Catholics would need to be worried. Forget the HHS mandate, they do think you’re just as immoral as LGBT and people who abort, etc. One guy from AHA I talked to (no one important, just a random member that harassed me like they all do) told me his next goal after abortion ended was “ending homosexuality” and then “ending the stranglehold Catholicism has on the US” (L-O-L!!!) They seriously are not a good group and interrupting people’s worship services is not ever going to be a good thing, it’s just going to lead to you being persecuted yourself at some point.
I agree with most of what LisaC said on this thread, unless I missed something and she was talking about how abortion was okay or something.
“It’s a pity you didn’t live eighteen centuries ago, Jay. You would have had a lot more opportunities to point at funny cultists and laugh at them for singing hymns as people tried to stop them from practicing their faith.”
Or just wipe em out. That was also a fun part of religious oppression.
I don’t see why people don’t understand screwing with other people’s religious services is dangerous. Religious freedom really is a fundamental right, equal to freedom of speech and assembly, and I don’t understand why people only apply it to themselves.
AHA would probably protest my church because the pastor said we should let even unrepentant post-abortive people attend, because everyone needs to hear the good news. Blasphemy, idolatry, etc.
[…] Since 1987, Unitarian Universalists as an organization have not only supported the legality of abortion, but also publicly opposed any measure to restrict abortion in any way. To speak out for the pre-born Operation Save America protested the group’s anti-life stance at a Unitarian Universalist Sunday service. Jill Stanek reported: […]