In my Pulpit column running Saturday, Aug. 14, I write about the first prayer vigil outside Planned Parenthood Westside’s new location, led by the Rev. Bill Carmody, director of the Respect for Life Office at the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs.
Marge Knight, a 71-7ear-old member of Corpus Christi Church, has been attending the vigils for 16 years. “Prayer is the only thing that will change people’s hearts and show what evil this is,” she said as she stood on the Centennial Boulevard sidewalk waiting for Mass to begin.
Aug. 1 demonstration on Centennial
Carmody’s group mostly prays during the vigil. They are not confrontational or aggressive. They don’t carry sensational signs. So why are they out there? Why not prayer at church or at home for the end of abortion?
“It’s a witness to the evil in our country,” Knight explained.
Carmody holds Mass and Rosary every Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. outside Planned Parenthood at 3840 Centennial Blvd. All are welcome, but be careful where you park. The best spot is in the nearby shopping mall. If you park in the medical facility, you will be asked to move your car. At the first vigil, a Colorado Springs police officer arrived to tell a demonstrator to move his car from the medical building complex.
Here are excerpts of the prayer said at the vigils:
“We pray, then, for the least among us, / the children in the womb. / Protect them from the violence of abortion. / We pray for those that scheduled to die at Planned Parenthood.”
“Sh0w us how we are to respond to the holocaust / in our midst, and lead us to the day when this place / of death will be transformed into a haven of life.”
Amazing that they ignore their own logic. If spontaneous abortions are the result of “God’s will” then their own god is the worlds largest abortion provider.
These religions, especially Carmody’s, only fight abortion because they are in the growth business. Every abortion represents another parishioner they can extort money from.
They completely ignore the fact that they have made this planet unsustainable, even if most people aren’t like the crazy Duggars.
Abortion is necessary to save lives. If you don’t want one – don’t have one. If YOUR wife is going to die without one – it would be really silly not to.
Don’t take me seriously, I don’t believe any of what I just wrote
Not one of these protesters is representing a specific church, so your rant about the money is bull. Abortion kills a baby. Doesn’t take much to understand that. It is the cold hearted killers we should be holding responsible for their actions, not the innocent baby.
Abortion is legal in America. Until it is outlawed the picketing Priests in robes and drooling supplicants with their idiot signs and tattered bibles, are harassing citizens engaged in a lawful practice.
If you wish, get the law changed, but sooner or later your religion tainted actions will draw vengeful acts from those you have illegally harassed.
The street is no place to change the law, the court is. The street is for rioters and mobs and dominion christian activists.Any attempt to use religion for seditious puposes is unAmerican. Father Bill is a traitor to the Constitution.
The Blog Headline should read: “Abortion opponents take the LOW road on Centennial Boulevard.”