Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Peace and Love?
Washington Pro-Abortion March Characterized by Naked Anti-Christian
Bigotry
April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - First-hand accounts are being
published online of the behavior of the marchers in Washington's "March
for Women's Lives" that show the undisguised hatred of Christians that
characterizes such events. Websites and personal weblogs are carrying
accounts of abuse and vitriol hurled at Christian counter demonstrators
who attended the march to witness the value of life.
The Free Republic website carries a first hand account that highlights a
priest who prayed for the conversion of the marchers as they marched past.
"Father Reynolds stood for hours this afternoon on Pennsylvania
Avenue Almost nonstop, he made the sign of the cross with his right
arm Father Reynolds was cursed at and flipped off by hundreds of marchers,
many of whom sported Kerry stickers. Many other marchers mocked the sign
of the cross He was repeatedly accused of being a child molester by those
who support the murder of children."
One report is published on a weblog, "After Abortion," by a woman who
works with the organization, Silent No More. Annie, who does not give her
surname on her website, attended the march wearing black as a symbol of
mourning for her lost child. Her group of about five hundred stood in
silence for the entire five hours of the event. She writes, " nothing
prepared me for literally mobs of livid people screaming the most hateful
vicious snide things at me personally. We were spit on, and had an egg
hurled at us from the marchers. There were two groups of Satanists "
One particularly moving part of her account, however, shows that the
contradiction of abortion rhetoric is not always lost even on abortion
activists. "A woman caught my eye from the crowd as I'd been crying. She
gazed at me, and called out, 'I regret my abortion too!' suddenly she
broke free and ran back, past the riot cop, and threw her arms around my
neck to hug me, to console me! I was stunned, but I hugged her back and
wept hard again, whispering to her, 'WHY are you out here in this? HOW can
you still believe it's OK??'
"She didn't say anything, because I could hear her start crying too. She
hugged me tight for what seemed like very long minutes. The whole crowd
beyond her stopped and stared. No one spoke or made a sound We just cried
on each other's shoulders in the midst of all this madness and hate when
she finally pulled back, I thanked her, and we just looked at each other a
moment, feeling each other's pain, but then she ran back into the crowd
and disappeared."
Read the full account of Fr. Reynolds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124410/posts
Annie's personal account:
http://afterabortion.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_afterabortion_archive.html#10
8304137944458162
Bigotry
April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - First-hand accounts are being
published online of the behavior of the marchers in Washington's "March
for Women's Lives" that show the undisguised hatred of Christians that
characterizes such events. Websites and personal weblogs are carrying
accounts of abuse and vitriol hurled at Christian counter demonstrators
who attended the march to witness the value of life.
The Free Republic website carries a first hand account that highlights a
priest who prayed for the conversion of the marchers as they marched past.
"Father Reynolds stood for hours this afternoon on Pennsylvania
Avenue Almost nonstop, he made the sign of the cross with his right
arm Father Reynolds was cursed at and flipped off by hundreds of marchers,
many of whom sported Kerry stickers. Many other marchers mocked the sign
of the cross He was repeatedly accused of being a child molester by those
who support the murder of children."
One report is published on a weblog, "After Abortion," by a woman who
works with the organization, Silent No More. Annie, who does not give her
surname on her website, attended the march wearing black as a symbol of
mourning for her lost child. Her group of about five hundred stood in
silence for the entire five hours of the event. She writes, " nothing
prepared me for literally mobs of livid people screaming the most hateful
vicious snide things at me personally. We were spit on, and had an egg
hurled at us from the marchers. There were two groups of Satanists "
One particularly moving part of her account, however, shows that the
contradiction of abortion rhetoric is not always lost even on abortion
activists. "A woman caught my eye from the crowd as I'd been crying. She
gazed at me, and called out, 'I regret my abortion too!' suddenly she
broke free and ran back, past the riot cop, and threw her arms around my
neck to hug me, to console me! I was stunned, but I hugged her back and
wept hard again, whispering to her, 'WHY are you out here in this? HOW can
you still believe it's OK??'
"She didn't say anything, because I could hear her start crying too. She
hugged me tight for what seemed like very long minutes. The whole crowd
beyond her stopped and stared. No one spoke or made a sound We just cried
on each other's shoulders in the midst of all this madness and hate when
she finally pulled back, I thanked her, and we just looked at each other a
moment, feeling each other's pain, but then she ran back into the crowd
and disappeared."
Read the full account of Fr. Reynolds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124410/posts
Annie's personal account:
http://afterabortion.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_afterabortion_archive.html#10
8304137944458162
