Notre Dame protest site launched
Posted by Eric Scheidler (April 20, 2009 at 5:48 pm)
The Pro-Life Action League, based in Chicago, Illinois, and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, based in South Lyon, Michigan have just launched this website to coordinate our joint protest efforts of the scandalous commencement address by President Obama at the University of Notre Dame on May 17.
Both the League’s Joe Scheidler, a Notre Dame graduate and former teacher, and Citizen’s Monica Miller, a professor of Sacred Theology at St. Mary’s College of Madonna University, have been unable to convince University President Fr. John Jenkins, CSC, to cancel his invitation to Barack Obama to speak at the commencement. Both Scheidler and Miller, veteran pro-life activists, agree that there is no choice but to protest on graduation day.
More information will soon be posted here about protest groups coming from the Chicago and Detroit areas, and other details of the May16-17 protest activities.
Meanwhile, check out the pages here on Barack Obama’s abortion record and Catholic teaching on abortion and politics, including excerpts from the more than thirty statements from our nation’s bishops in opposition to the President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame.
I used to believe that Notre Dame stood for morals and values that I believe in. They obviously do not. It is a sad time in our great history. We will only go down from here.
April 27th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Thank you for placing the billboards on the Indiana toll road!! I haven’t been this excited and hopeful for a long time regarding this issue. I applaud all your efforts to defend the unborn! God bless you.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
I am a Notre Dame Graduate, Class of 1963. I am a Registered Republican, I am against Abortion and also opposed to President Obama’s recent change in position regarding stem cell research However, I do support Notre Dame’s invitation to the President of the United States to Speak on Campus. I also wonder where all of you protesters, including your billboards, were at the time of the election? The then candidtae Obama’s postions were clearly stated. Why did he receive nearly 60% of the Catholic Vote? Where were the Protesting Clergy then? How many of them Voted for President Obama. Please take the Advice of the Bishop of Fort Wayne/South Bend and STAY HOME to show your protest, DO NOT BE GOING TO THE CAMPUS TO PROTEST; that is what he intends to do. Back off of Notre Dame and direct your comments directly to Congress (and all the Catholic members there in who support “a womans right to choose”). Perhaps the President of the United Staes may be touched by things he sees and hears at Notre Dame, leading to his eventual change in positions. Consider that, and BACK OFF!! I would also add that there are many of us who are getting very sick of you, not your pro-life position, but of you.
Willis F. Fry, 63
May 5th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Quote: Perhaps the President of the United Staes may be touched by things he sees and hears at Notre Dame,
Yes, Obama will be touched by seeing in name only Catholics fawn all over him and completly forget that he supports the murder of millions of babies.
It is a sad day for the Church, Christ, and millions of children facing a brutal death by abortion.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
If I was physically capable, I’d be the first one to carry a banner of protest with you. I will be praying that day for all of you. Good courage to all of you I send Angels to protect you. Judith
May 14th, 2009 at 2:23 am
be glad you live in a country where you can protest and elect to have an abortion. abortion is legal. If there were enough support to overturn roe v. wade, it would happen! In this great country the majority rules. That same majority elected a great leader. Obama. If you don’t respect the opinion of others you have no right to expect to have yours respected. I think the mobile protest at Notre Dame is offensive. How can you oppose abortion, then drive a truck around with a photo of one on it?
May 15th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Abortion is legal, unfortunately. The problem is that it is immoral and against the teachings of Christ and the stated position of the Catholic Church. For Notre Dame to invite someone who does not reflect the moral values the Church would want their students to reflect shows that Notre Dame needs to be renamed as Judas University.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Tolerance seems recently to be America’s most beloved value. Sadly we are told in our increasingly relativistic society that believing in TRUTH is divisive and harmful. There is a TRUTH, and it will lead to Freedom. Jesus said He is the TRUTH and LOVE. As a nation we must embrace humility, pray and turn from our sin of the shedding of innocent blood. God said He would respond with forgiveness and bring healing to this great land. (2Chron. 7:14) The TRUTH??? We need to pray for our president to find what is true for the sake of our future.
May 16th, 2009 at 2:27 am
Let me see if I can understand your part in the hypocrisy game. The catholic church HAS NEVER protested Presidents of the US who supported AND profitted from slavery, Jim Crow and lynching. Yet, your organization supposedly represents “pro-life”??!! And I have to wonder how many of the protesters are 2nd generation Americans who are Jim Crow Benefactors: parents migrated to US from Europe during Jim Crow which was the equivalent of migrating to Auschwitz during Hitler’s reign. Yeah, pro-life, huh? Start with an apology to all the blacks and whites who were killed during Jim Crow for supporting LIFE and equality for all. Then I, as a catholic, will be able to take your cause seriously. And the irony is the Jim Crow benefactor behind Roe vs. Wade, now wants to throw in her torch AFTER fighting for an abortion! Sad and ridiculous.
May 16th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Honestly, I’m not a Catholic, I’m Baptist and I’m outraged that a university that used to be a beacon of light for the Catholic Church has chosen to ride the coat tails of a President who is popular, but does not uphold the beliefs of their church. I wondered how long it would take before some one would make it about race, it only took nine comments. I would have felt the same had it been Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood elite, etc. Remove the plank from your own eye before complaining of the splinter in others.
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