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Idiots Among Us: Iraq war protesters disrupt Chicago Mass
Monday, March 24, 2008 • 9:04 pm
Coming to a church near you:
Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium.

Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George's homily, yelling "Even the Pope calls for peace" as they were removed from the Mass by security guards and ushers.

One Mass attendee, Mike Wainscott of Chicago, yelled at the anti-war protesters.

"Are you happy with yourselves?" he said. "There were kids in there. You scared little kids with your selfish act. Are you happy now?"

Here's some video:


Comments:

As near as I can tell, the Pope’s calls for peace in Iraq have been directed at the people of Iraq, asking them to stop the violence.  Unilatteral and immediate withdrawal of Americans from Iraq might get Iraq out of the daily news but it sure as heck won’t create peace in Iraq.

[1] Posted by AndrewA on 03-24-2008 at 11:19 PM

I would think that this would qualify as a hate crime.
Attorney’s please advise. Forgive them Lord as they do not know what they have done.
Intercessor

[2] Posted by Intercessor on 03-24-2008 at 11:39 PM

Well AndrewA, as the title above states Idiots Among Us! These kids were not brought up really well as far as I am concerned. There is a time and a place to state ones protests and in a church during a Mass is not the place. What stupidity! I hope their parents are happy with their offspring! I frankly would be embarrassed if it was one of my kids.

[3] Posted by One Day Closer on 03-24-2008 at 11:43 PM

I think they are all on tract for ordination in TEC.

[4] Posted by Jacob on 03-25-2008 at 12:17 AM

I think they should try this in a mosque sometime. 

By the time they’re through, it won’t be fake blood all over them.

[5] Posted by st. anonymous on 03-25-2008 at 08:15 AM

I like the peaceful way they protested the war in Iraq. At a church and not a government facility.

[6] Posted by art+ on 03-25-2008 at 08:25 AM

What a bunch of maladjusted losers; their parents should be proud. I think some powerful drugs and a nice padded room could be of help.

Okay disagreeing with the Iraq war is totally legitimate and sane people can disagree on it. But what the hell does attacking innocent people, worshipping in church and acting like a total moron have to do with protesting the war. I think they are more Christian hating liberal deviants and frankly I think more and more losers and deviants are going to target churches in this manner. These little brats need a butt kicking. They probile grew up with idiot ,indulgent parents, who told them how wonderful and special they are. Spare the rod,spoil the Child or something like that.

[7] Posted by Anglo-Catholic-Jihadi on 03-25-2008 at 09:23 AM

I have to say that they looked a bit older .... perhaps in their mid-twenties rather than in their late teens.  The “label” that they have given themselves would suggest a younger group of people. I have the impression that they would like to live out their fantasy of the late 1960s or early 1070s. 

During that time, I was at UC Berkeley with a “front-row” seat.  It was an incredibly ugly time.  (I was attending St. Clement’s at the time.  It has been many, many years since I have been there.)

[8] Posted by interested observer on 03-25-2008 at 02:59 PM

I was in Taos, NM over Spring Break.  There were war protestors there too.  One of my teenagers yells out of the car “Go Bush!” So one of the protestors yelled back “F*** Bush”.  Nice - just what my children needed to hear…

[9] Posted by B. Hunter on 03-25-2008 at 04:27 PM

I can’t imagine what connection these six protesters saw between the Iraq War and the Roman Catholic Church.  Maybe there wasn’t any.  Maybe they were just looking for as large a venue as possible in which to carry out their public protest, and a large Easter mass led a cardinal would certainly guarantee a big crowd and some likely publicity for their act.

Alas, however, there have been more than a few equally notorious and outrageous acts committed by out-of-control critics of the Catholic Church.  Philip Jenkins documents some of them and provides a very insightful commentary on them in his typically instructive book, “The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice.” And the press often downplays such horrendous events, almost as if the Roman Catholic Church deserves what it sometimes gets as supposedly the biggest institutional obstacle to “social progress.”

David Handy+
astonishing tolerance for such

[10] Posted by New Reformation Advocate on 03-25-2008 at 08:09 PM

Re [8] interested observer,
Good call re the group name “Catholic School Girls Against the War”. The article has been updated to correctly identify the gender of the participants. They were three men and three women. The one of indeterminate gender in the photo identified as 25 years old. 

P. S. These days in Berkeley, the antiwar movement is run by women who call themselves “Code Pink”. The great video posted here may amuse you.

[11] Posted by Deja Vu on 03-26-2008 at 08:15 AM

#11 Yes, Code Pink was a major player in the five year anniversary ... well, I wouldn’t exactly call it a protest ... maybe a sparely attended “all things liberal” convention in DC ... that happen to somehow connect to the Iraqi conflict or was it gun control or environment ... I dunno ...

Okay, maybe these guys can’t match the same bar as set in the 60’s ... but seriously a good IMF protest is more “respectable” ... this is just pathetic!

[12] Posted by Hosea6:6 on 03-26-2008 at 08:31 AM

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