Alan Keyes holds his Rosary while being handcuffed
Catholic Family News
Alan
Keyes holds his Rosary while being handcuffed
Alan
Keyes Arrested at Notre Dame
Protests
Obama Invitation
By John Vennari
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Thanks to M. Chabot, who was at the protest, for sending these photos to CFN
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On Friday May 8, former presidential
candidate Alan Keyes was arrested at Notre Dame
protesting the university’s decision to honor President Obama with the
commencement speech and an honorary law degree.
Obama is scheduled to appear at Notre Dame on May
17.
Dr. Keyes
arrived at Notre Dame with a sizable cadre of pro-lifers, many pushing
strollers containing baby-dolls smeared red to indicate the blood of the unborn
slain daily in abortion. Others held signs saying,“I regret my abortion”.
The protestors peacefully walked onto Notre Dame’s
campus praying together the Rosary.
Upon entering the campus, Keyes was arrested for
trespassing by
Keyes held his rosary as he was handcuffed from behind.
About 15 others were handcuffed and arrested with him.
One woman, who was off to the side praying the Rosary,
and not formally part of the protesting group, was thrown off the campus by
University police.
Dr. Keyes states his intention is to witness to the
truth, and urges many others to join the protest at Notre Dame “until the
I spoke with Mr. Keyes shortly before he entered the
campus.
He expressed to me his belief that we are now in a
great winnowing where the wheat will be separated from the chaff. “Evil is on
the offensive,” he said, “and when that moment comes, we are called upon to
make a choice.”
He gave the example of Obama’s aggressive plan to
remove conscience-protection from health-care workers who oppose abortion, so
that those who object to abortion on moral grounds will either have to
participate in these procedures or leave the profession.
“If he is able to fulfill that intention”, said Keyes,
“then every single person in the medical community will have to make a choice
to stand with Christ or against Him.”
“At the end of the day”, said Keyes, “I think Obama is
just part of the truth that the law of God and the truth of Jesus Christ is as
a sword. It divides.”
He noted many modern Christians, Church leaders and
academies are “living a lie”, in that “they pretend the Christian does not have
to choose. But Christ said you are
either with Him or against him. There is no middle ground.”
Local resident Michael Chabot explained his reason for
taking part in the protest.
“As long as Our Lady is on the dome at Notre Dame, she is being publicly dishonored.” said Mr. Chabot. “And as long as Notre Dame tries to hide under the veneer of a Catholic identity or character, then I join these protests to do what Pope Leo XIII said we should do, tear the mask off and expose them.”
Last week, Keyes issued a statement giving his reasons
for traveling to Notre Dame.
He noted that Notre Dame “will welcome to the
university campus a man who represents the most abominable and extreme
commitment ever known in US politics to destroying the God-given right to life
of innocent human offspring.”
“With their actions and the ‘honor’ they confer upon
Obama,” said Keyes, “they will actively promote the lie that it is possible to
dishonor God blatantly and unashamedly, yet be somehow ‘honorable’ in the eyes
of those who profess faith in Jesus Christ.”
Noting pro-life leader Randal Terry’s recent arrest at
Notre Dame, Keyes said the university has “declared it an offense to peacefully
demonstrate the evil of abortion. They have declared it an offense, prayerfully
to bear witness to truth on a campus supposedly guided by and subordinate to
that truth.”
He then declared his intention to protest.
“I will go to
Urging others to join him, he said, “If this be
trespass, then forgive us our trespasses and join us in trespassing until the
South Bend jail is filled to overflowing with witnesses to truth; filled beyond
capacity; filled until we break the most onerous shackles of all the ones that
bind the heart and mind to evil and our nation to the path of its destruction.”
The protests at Notre Dame have being going on for the
past three weeks, and continue to escalate as we file this report.
To date, 71 Bishops have spoken out against
Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama.
To learn more, go www.stopobamanotredame.com
posted
May 9, 2009
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