New in PJ Media:
The facts of the case are as simple as they are shocking. On Jan. 20, a group of students from Our Lady of the Rosary School in Greenville, S.C., went to Washington for the March for Life. To proclaim their dedication to their cause, and to make it easier for chaperones to spot members of their group, they all wore blue stocking caps labeled “Rosary PRO-LIFE.” But when the group went from the march to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, they were told to remove the pro-life lids or leave the premises. They had transgressed against America’s national religion.
Fox News reported Wednesday that the parents of some of the students “alleged that the museum staff mocked the students, hurled expletives and claimed the museum was a ‘neutral zone’ where political or religious messages were not allowed.” According to one of the students, Patrick Murphy, two women whom the group understood to be security guards approached the group and said, “All people wearing a pro-life hat, take it off.”
The pro-lifers left the museum, but the incident wasn’t over. Murphy said that while the group was standing outside the institution, “they were approached by a man claiming he had reports the group refused to take off their hats and they were in trouble.” Murphy says that he told this fellow: “This is a violation of our First Amendment right. This is a government funded building. How are we paying for this with our taxes and I’m not allowed to wear this hat?” But the man responded that the museum “was a neutral zone and their rights didn’t apply.” Murphy concludes: “We had almost no words.”
Murphy stated that when the pair of security guards first approached the group and told them to take off their hats, “And immediately we’re confused.” They weren’t the only ones who were confused. Alison Wood, the museum’s deputy director of communications, stated that the security guards were way out of line, as “asking visitors to remove hats and clothing is not in keeping with our policies or protocols. We provided immediate training to prevent a re-occurrence of this kind of incident.”
That’s terrific, but it isn’t as if the incident was any real surprise. For decades now, as is detailed in the new book The Sumter Gambit: How the Left Is Trying to Foment A Civil War, a principal focus of the Left’s culture war has been to mainstream its own perspectives, practices, and proclivities, treating them as if they were axiomatically true and accepted by everyone, while tarring dissenting views as “fringe” products of the “far right.” Thus Nikki Haley was correct when she tweeted: “This wouldn’t happen to students wearing ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘Free Palestine’ shirts. Bias against conservatives runs deep in our culture & gov.”
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GreekEmpress says
Here’s the firm representing some of the Catholic students—
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bill carr says
A healthy adult male can release between 40 million and 1.2 billion sperm cells in a single ejaculation.
So are the pro lifers and religious organisations going to prosecute every man who masturbates. That is
mass murder on an epic scale! Even in normal intercourse onlyone two or sperms score a goal. Then we must consider the miscarriages, published statistics state that up to 1 in 4 of women miscarry. I read somewhere that somewhere in USA a woman who has that misfortune may be prosecuted for murder. That might have been misinfomation though.
OLD GUY says
Does this mean that a muslim women with a Hijab or a jewish man with a Yarmulkes or me with my Make America Great Again cap on are not allowed in the Smithsonian?
somehistory says
For anyone who is interested, this is an excellent interview with three men, one a mathematician, and two bio scientists. conducted by a rep from the Hoover Institution. posted just a few days ago.
“By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator “- YouTube”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXexaVsvhCM
somehistory says
Part of the discussion is about the fact that people who *believe* in a Higher Mind, are being attacked….as these men have been.