Rally For Religious Freedom

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In San Diego it was great! I was so happy to see our Bishop. He’s got fire, I love him! It was good to see all the denominations praying together. When facing this common enemy, the HHS, the differences fade. The Baptists thanked the Catholics, the Catholics thanked the Baptists.

One thing: I’m very familiar with the functioning of the very nearby San Diego Int’l. Airport. I noticed something clearly. There was a plane circling over the assembly area. It towed a sign that read “Impeach Obama…Lawless Prez.” Then, just a shortwhile after this plane appeared, a Southwest Airlines Passenger Plane took off from San Diego Int’l. Airport to the East. See, in San Diego, the airport is right in the middle of the city. The planes almost always take off going west, over Point Loma, then over the ocean. This plane, the only plane of the day doing this, took off to the east, over downtown, buzzing the circling plane, buzzing the crowd with it’s loud jet engines. They know good and well, they did that intentionally after seeing the “Impeach Obama…” sign.

I am tempted to write to the FAA, asking if it was necessary for the plane to take off west. This manuever is only done in very rare occasions, most of which involve heavy, heavy fog, or, massive santa ana winds from the east. There were niether of these two conditions when it happened. Southwest Airlines is a major employer of homosexuals, and the people in the control tower probably felt like the plane was “un-american”. But did they really lose composure and subject their passengers to an unneeded “emergency over-city” takeoff? (It’s a greater risk, everyone that flies in San Diego knows the “over-city” exit is scary.), it appears so.

To everyone else, it was just loud jet-noise. But to me, I thought, Federal civil servants that couldn’t obey orders and couldn’t hold their water.

It was a great rally. I hope there’s more.
 
Some of the photos include on-lookers, not real participants in the rally.

I doubt there was a rally with tens of thousands of people as stated in the last post.

Jim
 
I have friends who were at the Detroit rally, and they have said there were over 1,000 people there.

~Liza
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Some of the photos include on-lookers, not real participants in the rally.

I doubt there was a rally with tens of thousands of people as stated in the last post.

Jim
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The “tens of thousands” number is collective; as in tens of thousands all over the US. EWTN Facebook page also has a picture from Pakistan, I think.
 
lizaanne said:
I have friends who were at the Detroit rally, and they have said there were over 1,000 people there.

~Liza
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Yep, I was there. They passed around index cards for everyone to sign in, and collected over 1,000.

And even then, the numbers were low. I thought the cards were only for collecting contact info, so I only put down my name. I didn’t list my wife and our six kids, who were also there.
 
What was really cool was that a dozen or so kids from our parish made a rosary out of helium balloons.

After the rally was over, they released it and we got to watch the rosary floating over downtown Detroit
 
JimR-OCDS said:
Some of the photos include on-lookers, not real participants in the rally.

I doubt there was a rally with tens of thousands of people as stated in the last post.

Jim
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The site didn’t claim that there was a single rally with tens of thousands. rather that there were tens of thousands involved. It was a number signifiting the magnitude of the people who attended the various rallies.
 
Brendan said:
What was really cool was that a dozen or so kids from our parish made a rosary out of helium balloons.

After the rally was over, they released it and we got to watch the rosary floating over downtown Detroit
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I saw pictures of that on Facebook - it looked really cool!!

Wish I could have been there but had to work. 😦

~Liza
 
ringil said:
It’s lifesitenews. :rolleyes:
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Did you even read any of the subsequent posts explaining that the article was referring to the collective protests? From the article:

“Tens of thousands of men and women gathered in 146 protests on Friday…”

I take LifeSiteNews with a grain of salt as well, but they definitely weren’t saying tens of thousands of people were at one protest.
 
Unprecedented Media Coverage for 3/23 Rallies
The Nationwide Rally for Religious Freedom was an outstanding success. So huge the media simply could not ignore the Rallies as they sometimes do with conservative events.
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Rally co-chair Eric Scheidler appeared on Fox News twice in the leadup to the Rally—watch yesterday’s interview to the right—and they covered the New York City Rally live. Eric also appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show and other major commentators like Glenn Beck covered and promoted the Rallies.
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I’ve been involved in grassroots activism for years, including protests that have drawn national attention, and I’ve never seen as much secular, mainstream media coverage as the Nationwide Rally garnered.
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Check out the results of a Google News search for “Rally for Religious Freedom”. News outlets nationwide covered these Rallies because of the huge numbers involved.
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Thanks to everyone who came and made this a major media event and the first step on the road to defeat President Obama’s HHS Mandate!
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standupforreligiousfreedom.com/2012/media

Watch Eric Scheidler discuss the rallies on Fox news:

video.foxnews.com/v/1525993635001
 
I was pretty pleased with local news coverage of our rally in Fort Wayne. At least two local TV stations had reporters on the scene during the rally. The morning paper had a front page picture with the story on page one of the local news section. The afternoon paper had a very positive opinion piece on the editorial page. The rally itself had speakers of many different backgrounds and the participants were very well behaved without even a little bit of littering. It was quite a contrast with the “Occupy Fort Wayne” demonstrations.
 
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