On Saturday, April 12, a small group of pro-abortion demonstrators staged an Abortion Rights Emergency Action in front of San Francisco’s iconic Saints Peter and Paul Church. The demonstration was an effort by StopPatriarchy in four cities. According to the group’s website, the demonstrations were motivated by the number of pro-life laws passed at the state level in the years 2011-2013: “Two hundred and three abortion restrictions were passed on the state level; that’s more restrictions passed than in the entire preceding decade.” While billed as “anti-abortion/anti-pornography,” StopPatriarchy is a front group/offshoot of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. Each page on the stoppatriarchy.org website contains this sentence and link: “Read ongoing coverage & revolutionary analysis of this movement at revcom.us.” Revcom.us is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Prior to the event the website was filled with publicity for the upcoming protests, and on April 11 the website streamed a preparatory conference by Stop Patriarchy speakers directly from New York’s Advent Lutheran Church.
In addition to Saints Peter and Paul in San Francisco, other targets were: St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, the Swedish Hospital and the Catholic chancery in Seattle, and the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles. The group’s website offered their rationale for targeting Saints Peter and Paul: “Saints Peter and Paul Church was the home parish for the anti-abortion Walk for Life 2014. This church advocates the DOMA – the federal law that denies the humanity of LGBT people and denies them basic rights in the name of ‘protecting natural marriage.’ Saints Peter and Paul Church hosts events such as the Unborn Jesus Hour, and hosted hundreds of travelers for the largest protest against abortion rights on the west coast.” A similar reason was given for the protest in Seattle. No reason was given for targeting the Santa Monica Pier.
At 4:00 p.m. demonstrators began to gather in Washington Square Park, across from Saints Peter and Paul. They eventually numbered around 25. 12 members of the San Francisco police department were on hand, to make sure there was no violation of religious worship rights.
Just before the 5:00 p,m, Mass began, the group left the park to demonstrate in front of the church. The police stationed themselves in front of the church. No action by the police was required, but judging from the glares and comments some old ladies directed at the protestors, it’s just as well they were there. The protestors were mostly quiet but did try to engage passers-by and Mass-goers in conversation. They met with little agreement: a lady walking a dog got in a verbal confrontation with one of the protestors. Another lady going to Mass simply said loudly “Abortion is murder.” A man entering the church said “They say women’s blood is on our hands—what about the blood of the babies?” Another man, a stranger to the first, heard this and added “That’s right, and its innocent blood!” The protestors’ quiet demeanor suddenly changed to loud chanting, as reception of Communion began in the church. Following their chants the protestors departed, just before Mass let out.
As is the case when they protest the Walk for Life West Coast, the pro-abortionists were badly outnumbered. In this case they were outnumbered not by pro-lifers, but by the poor and homeless waiting in line for the church’s daily sandwich giveaway, a ministry Saints Peter and Paul has provided since the Depression.
Pah. Nuisance firing.
Wow — the “poor and homeless” waiting for free sandwiches outnumbered the pro-abortionists. This is great news and should be on the front page of all true Catholic publications. Now, it can be seen that the great flood of support for abortion laws and the like is ebbing; the more that people react to their innate Natural Law instincts, the more that they will convince others that it is OK to oppose the seemingly popular will. And the more that the seemingly popular will is opposed, the more that voters will start to waiver in supporting the pro-abortion politicians. And the more that voters stop supporting the pro-abortion politicians, the more that courts will also get the message (directly, and by the effect of appointments of conservatives), and then, and then, laws will begin to change. In other words, make pro-abortion politicians and their supporters irrlevant, if not outcasts.
We all had better learn to Duck – Quickly
World Net Daily has reported on my receipt of the “Pink Brick Award” by the San Francisco “Gay Pride” organization. I think you will find it interesting. It is also posted on our website.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/lgbt-activists-throw-pink-brick-at-pro-family-leader/
In my comments in the article I made reference to the prevalence of child molestation in the homosexual community, specifically the many pederasts who led the “gay” movement in its early years.
I haven’t given much focus to that truth in recent years, and neither have any of the other pro-family activist leaders, but I think its time to do so.
One good start to that effort is this excellent article by the Honorable Steve Baldwin: Child Molestation in the Homosexual Community, Regent University Law Review, Volume 14, 267.
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/student_life/studentorgs/lawreview/docs/issues/v14n2/Vol.%2014,%20No.%202,%203%20Baldwin.pdf
Michael McDermott, are you claiming to be Scott Lively?
Thank you Michael for the very interesting links. It’s time all the truth was out there. I urge everyone to read them.
Sounds to me like the ‘demonstrators’ came into contact with REAL SAN FRANCISCANS!!!!!
As a 4th generation San Franciscan I am very proud of those ‘ old’ ladies and gentleman……..the ‘demonstrators’ could learn alot from them, in more ways than one.
So “Stop Patriarchy” and the Communist Party are one in the same?! No surprise here. It appears that their message is resonating with the youth. We now live in a nation where more children are either aborted or born out of wedlock to mothers under age 30 than at anytime in our history. Children born to single mothers are 5 times more likely to be poor than those born to parents who are married. Eighty percent of all long term poverty occurs in single parent homes. https://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/24/family-fact-of-the-week-majority-of-births-to-women-under-30-are-to-single-moms/
So here we have Communists championing more of the same. In order for Communism to prevail with their wicked policies, men first have to be relegated to the role of boy toys. God Help Us.
I once went to a Israel Day event where the Revolutionary Communist Party was protesting. A very sincere young woman kept crying out “People are dying!” I couldn’t help but mention that every time a revolutionary communist party has come to power, they’ve done it by KILLING PEOPLE!
C & H you are so right! I can’t help but wonder how many main stream news agencies informed their audiences that the “Stop Patriarchy” demonstrators are really Revolutionary Communist Party agitators? I highly doubt that any of them did.
Communism and it’s genocidal principles are tragically alive and well here in our country. They are simply dressed in different clothing, i.e. “abortion rights”, “women’s right’s, etc.