On June 8, 2012 many thousands of people took to the nation's streets to protest the Obamacare contraceptive mandates and to support religious freedom in the United States. The mainstream media hardly covered the protest.
The turnout in Chicago was in a conservative estimation about 1,500, although others estimates
make the turnout to be about 3,500. A significant fact about the
demonstrators was that they ranged from children to adults. Entire
families were there. Furthermore, there were delegations from local
Catholic parish that gave the event the flavor of a church picnic.
At
the core of the protest were Catholic groups, many of them conservative
Catholics from Chicago and families that home schooled their children.
St.
John Cantius parish in Chicago made a dramatic entrance with yellow
balloons on polls that broadcast the word "Life." Notably absent were TV
cameras and members of the press to do interviews.
Whether
or not this demonstration can be turned into votes for the Republican
candidate for US President remains to be seen. The organizers of the
event did not allow political signs, but you could sense the crowd was
not inclined to vote Democrat.
The
few demonstrators I interviewed said they were going back to their
local parishes and persuade their friends to vote Republican.
One
boy, not old enough to vote, summed up the feeling of many there. He
held up a homemade sign that asked, "Obama: Religiophobe?"
I asked him if he made the sign himself.
"No," he proudly answered, "My Mom did."
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