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'Choose Life' Banner Banned in NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade
Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Rex, President, The Children First Foundation, 914-629-3710
NEW YORK, March 17, 2015 /Christian Newswire/
-- The Children First Foundation, a pro-adoption group that applied to
march in the 2015 St. Patrick's Day Parade, will not be marching today
in the world's oldest and largest parade because it was blocked,
stonewalled and officially rejected by the NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade
Committee. Why? That is an important and serious question that the
parade organizers should be asked to answer.
Following the Press
Conference in September that introduced Cardinal Dolan as the 2015
Grand Marshal and explained the "change of policy," the Wall Street
Journal clearly reported that a pro-life group would also "march with a
banner."
Dennis Saffran, in a well-documented article entitled
"Parade Blarney" published in City Journal, the nation's premier
urban-policy magazine, (www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0313ds.html)
chronicles the parade organizers' obvious shenanigans that led to the
"exclusion" of a pro-life banner while allowing the "inclusion" of a
gay banner in the 2015 St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City.
In
addition, Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious
and Civil Rights, also carefully explained why he withdrew his own
organization in protest from the 2015 Parade last September: "My
reasons for withdrawing from the parade have nothing to do with
Cardinal Dolan or with gays. It has to do with being betrayed by the
parade committee. They not only told me one thing and did another, they
decided to include a gay group that is neither Catholic nor Irish while
stiffing pro-life Catholics. This is as stunning as it is
indefensible."
History will now report that in 2015 there was
"no room in the parade" for an organization dedicated to helping
pregnant women. Fortunately, the Church of the Holy Innocents, extended
a warm welcome to The Children First Foundation and to their banned
"Choose Life" banner at their historic church at 128 West 37th Street,
close to the parade route between Broadway and 7th Avenue.
All
are invited to make a "St. Patrick's Day Lenten Pilgrimage" to this
beautiful church today where countless people come to humbly kneel
before the "Return Crucifix" and to pray to the Holy Family for
deceased unborn children at their beautiful "Shrine of The Holy
Innocents." You are welcome to come and pray on St. Patrick's Day.
The Shrine of The Holy Innocents can also be "visited" online at www.innocents.com/shrine.asp.
Please consider inscribing the name of an unborn child in the Shrine's "Book of Life." Thank you so much.
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