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Washington Pro-Abortion March Characterized by Naked Anti-Christian Bigotry

April 27, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - First-hand accounts are being published online of the behavior of the marchers in Washington's "March for Women's Lives" that show the undisguised hatred of Christians that characterizes such events. Websites and personal weblogs are carrying accounts of abuse and vitriol hurled at Christian counter demonstrators who attended the march to witness the value of life.

The Free Republic website carries a first hand account that highlights a priest who prayed for the conversion of the marchers as they marched past. "Father Reynolds stood for hours this afternoon on Pennsylvania Avenue…Almost nonstop, he made the sign of the cross with his right arm…Father Reynolds was cursed at and flipped off by hundreds of marchers, many of whom sported Kerry stickers. Many other marchers mocked the sign of the cross…He was repeatedly accused of being a child molester by those who support the murder of children."

One report is published on a weblog, "After Abortion," by a woman who works with the organization, Silent No More. Annie, who does not give her surname on her website, attended the march wearing black as a symbol of mourning for her lost child. Her group of about five hundred stood in silence for the entire five hours of the event. She writes, "…nothing prepared me for literally mobs of livid people screaming the most hateful vicious snide things at me personally. We were spit on, and had an egg hurled at us from the marchers. There were two groups of Satanists…"

One particularly moving part of her account, however, shows that the contradiction of abortion rhetoric is not always lost even on abortion activists. "A woman…caught my eye from the crowd as I'd been crying. She gazed at me, and called out, 'I regret my abortion too!' … suddenly she broke free and ran back, past the riot cop, and threw her arms around my neck to hug me, to console me! I was stunned, but I hugged her back and wept hard again, whispering to her, 'WHY are you out here in this? HOW can you still believe it's OK??'…

"She didn't say anything, because I could hear her start crying too. She hugged me tight for what seemed like very long minutes. The whole crowd beyond her stopped and stared. No one spoke or made a sound… We just cried on each other's shoulders in the midst of all this madness and hate… when she finally pulled back, I thanked her, and we just looked at each other a moment, feeling each other's pain, but then she ran back into the crowd and disappeared."

Read the full account of Fr. Reynolds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124410/posts

Annie's personal account:
http://afterabortion.blogspot.com/2004_04_25_afterabortion_archive.html#10830413...

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