Last year, the local Catholic Church here in southern Delaware placed a thousand white crosses on their front lawn as a memorial to the thousands of "babies" that are aborted each year. As if this weren't bad enough, they next put up a large sign which read, "God's marriage equals one man and one woman." Irate, I made it my business to talk, in person, to the pastor and told him how offensive the church's actions were. He said if I didn't leave the premises immediately, he would call the police. I am so sick and tired of the religious foisting their idiocy on the populace at large!
A church in Cincinnati has also placed thousands of crosses to represent abortions. It made me wonder if this same religious institution would be willing to spend the money to raise each child represented by a cross. I think not!
I suppose if a church does that on their property we can't do anything but protest. Should have a counter display showing poor, sick children on welfare.
It ought to be interesting to see how Ireland's referendum on abortion makes out tomorrow. Their current abortion laws are ludicrous, but Ireland is very Catholic.
The polls suggest it is too close to call but my understanding those for existing laws still hold small margin however there is a large undecided group.
All those Catholics who need abortions just go to England to get one, but they shouldn't have to.
I know brother... you can't win on this. YOU can get a big ole bag of rye grass seed and sped it all over the place this winter. If you get caught.... tell them your planting a seed in remembrance.
What do you expect from a bunch of guys concerned about the "pre-aborted" from condonms, masterbation, or contraceptives", so much so, they can't be concerned about the spread of diseases. Religious a**holes?
Right to life ? The Catholic church is a joke. They only care about the fetus ! The history of the church is terrible - Crusades, witchcraft trials, Earth not the center of the universe (Galileo), destruction of advanced cultures (Aztec, Inca, Maya) in the New World and taking their gold, collaboration with Hitler during WWII, opposition to all forms of birth control with one exception ! Rhythm method, those who use it are known as parents ! They only want more "followers" to control the lives of more people and enrich themselves from the "offering plate". It's very comforting to hear that the Millennial Generation is leaving religion "in droves". You should see the huge numbers of the citizens in European countries who have left organized religion in Europe !
You should have asked him if he cared about the thousands of people in Uganda who contracted HIV last year because the catholic church condemned the use of condoms......
Do you think individual clergy members sometimes use hot issues to drive up their popularity within their parish and increase revenue?
Good for you.
I wish a group would put a counter protest sign denouncing them, or asking if the priests would pay to raise each child, or carry the pregnancies and take the pain and risks themselves.
I think not..its all about making rules for WOMEN to obey.
I wss listening to someone from the NRA yesterday, bitching about a proposal to require all gun owners keep their guns locked up. She was saying the government had no right to tell someone what to do with their guns on their own home. Well, they sure as shit don't mind telling women what they can do with their own bodies, let alone a damned gun. Like your vagina isn't your own.
If they really lived by their bible, things would be a lot different, wouldn't they? And at the end of the day, it says they are supposed to abide by the law x of the land. And according to ME, they would do well to clean up their own backyards before they stand in judgement and worry what everyone else is doing. MYOB. They need too practice that.
Call the Police, well so much for calling for the age old rite of Sanctuary.
I would have thought that those crosses represented all the people who committed suicide after being sexually molested as children by pedophiles in the Catholic Church and they better add a lot more crosses.
That was not even Pacino's best movie that year, Glengarry Glenn Ross was.
It would be so great if an activist group could counter protest using atheist symbols for all the victims of the crusades, the victims of Catholic child abuse and all the rest.
I feel your anger.
"Christians killing for Christ" or ignoring Christ to kill?.
I agree. And by the way, my wife of 35 years is from Georgetown DE.
@ProudMerry I spent a fair amount of time in Delaware when I was married, but it was in slower Delaware. (That's the local joke about the southern part of the state.)
God's marriage equals one man and one or two or more women, some dying in never ending childbirth of mainly future farmers, oh wait that was 500 years ago, new rules now?.
Vast numbers of abortions are spontaneous or fertilizations that fail to implant in the uterus (technically not an abortion). Where are those crosses? YDKWYDK (youdontknowwhatyoudontknow) Ask them what happens to the souls of the unborn or unbaptized, do they go heaven, hell, or recycled, souls are more important than the vessels they occupy, right??
Yep we’ve got smaller versions of those baby graveyards at the only catholic school in the city, and another smaller one at a baptist church near my home. The catholic school even had giant vinyl banner made with a bloody fetus on it the size of the predator. It’s all obscenely distasteful n I have to resist the urge to kick them down/steal them/burn them every time I pass.
Wow, the police?! So much for open dialogue and Christian good will. I've lost all patience
There's not much you can do if the church owns the land where they put up all the crosses and the sign. If you are a member of the congregation you can tell them that you disagree with the message. If you're an outsider, you can also tell them you disagree but you probably won't get very far.