If the “attendees” aim was no better than their moral judgement - the pro-lifers left dry and the Pres may still be sponging stuff from his suit.
Well … pro-life protestors might take note if they are to walk into the “lion’s den”. So far you don’t need a bulletproof vest – but maybe they should wear full body plastic ponchos as spit guards. They are at least in as much danger as in a Gallagher* show. :takethat:
**(Lion’s Den) ** When pro-life protesters shouted at Obama at Notre Dame part of me thought of them as exercising the spirit of “Jesus driving the moneychangers from the Temple”. A holy place was being profaned with something that didn’t belong there and the angry attitude was thoroughly appropriate (especially as peaceful pro-life marchers were being arrested on the same “Catholic” campus at that moment for the “crime” of praying a rosary while carrying G-rated pro-life signs).
Protesting a rally of a political group and shouting them down (even with this same critical and good message) is another thing.
OR - am I not up to speed? DO I need to admit that maybe a word or two THERE might save a soul or a baby or two - and that pro-life protesters THERE might just be courageously answering God’s call, warning those most in danger of hell, and not
quibbling with a detail like PLACE when all the world is the Lord’s and he desires the
repentance of sinners as much as mercy for innocent babies.
And maybe my cynically humorous opening should have been more serious immediately.
There may be something to fear if you are publicly pro-life per the news of this thread and two others here in the past week (the Church spray paint attack by “feminists” and the Quebec Church invasion by shouting pro-aborts). On that subject (fear): :bigyikes:
Matthew 10:21Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.
23 When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. 24 No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, for the slave that he become like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! 26 "Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known.
27 What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
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28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a small coin? Yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.
30 Even all the hairs of your head are counted.
- social reference. Gallagher is a comedian whose show has included walloping fruit (a good percentage of these Watermelons) with a ponderous hammer. Those close to the stage are issued ponchos or plastic sheeting to save their clothes. Perhaps its funnier in person.
On tape his show is better when he is not splattering (IMO); i.e. he CAN be witty I recall.
