If you've been reading the news recently you probably saw that four women protested the Pope in St. Peter's Square. USA Today, Reuters, and The Washington Post were just some of the hundreds of media outlets that ran stories on these four women who protested the Church's positions on gay marriage. That's right, four women received round the world coverage. Why? They took off their tops and got world wide coverage for their non-coverage.
Rumor has it that the Kardashians fired their p.r. department last night because they hadn't thought of that first.
This kind of stunt protest is sad but somehow effective kinda' like Gary Coleman saying "Whatchoo talkin' bout Willis" for five bucks a pop at conventions when he was thirty. No matter how sad it was, people just had to see it. (What? Too soon?)
But let's face it, liberals have unlocked the key to great media coverage. Nudity. In December, seven nude protesters stormed House Speaker John Boehner's office protesting cuts that actually hadn't been cut. This past weekend, ten San Franciscans held a "No Pants Subway Ride Day" to protest laws against nudity. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), announced plans to launch a pornography website with a mix of pornography and graphic footage of animal killing. (What is it with liberals' intermingling of sex and death? I think maybe that as soon as sex stopped being about life, it necessarily became about death.)
But anyway, it's becoming apparent that the to-do list for liberal protesters starts with 1) Get naked! 2)???
The thing is, we live in an age of the red light protest. A protest is just a few people standing around until the media arrives and the little red light on the camera goes on. Then you've got yourself a protest for the exact amount of time that the cameras are on. As soon as the media leaves, the protesters leave (and put their clothes back on.) It's not a protest. It's a commercial. And nothing gets more exposure than exposure.
In contrast, hundreds of thousands of bundled up pro-lifers march every year in defense of life through the heart of the capitol and we don't get a bit of media coverage. I've often thought that if an invading army ever wanted to discreetly invade the capitol they should just hold up pro-life signs and they'd be absolutely ignored.
So I offer an immodest proposal to pro-lifers. Perhaps all of us should march naked. Look, if four women can get topless and get all that media coverage a few hundred thousand protesters marching through DC should get those cameras going.
Of course, this could have some ramification such as possibly reducing the number of guys willing to march because let's face it, January can get kinda' cold.
And just maybe it's not such a good idea to get so many people who take the admonition to be fruitful and multiply so seriously together while naked. Could be some problems. Let's face it, our protestors are much better looking than pro-abortion protestors who hit their prime around Woodstock. They'd be tripping over their own parts.
The good news is that if we did it, liberals would be forced to declare that getting naked at protests just became uncool and at least they wouldn't do it anymore.
I'm giving you a few weeks time to get yourself into some semblance of shape, get calf implants, or maybe just a quick spray tan. I'm doing it folks. I'm not even packing a bag. Don't let me be the only one. I'll see you there. I'll be the tan guy with the awesome calves with all the news cameras around me.
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I think I may remind Catholics that walking around naked is not a good thing in the eyes of Almighty God.
It is not really about getting the Media’s attention. They are consecrated to the world and it’s ruler of darkness. What is important is what we do in the Eyes of Jesus Christ. Our protests are in prayer and vigil with virtue for the Glory of God and love of His Creation of Humanity which is in His Image.
May i remind you that he is mearly being sarcastic. No one wants to see his ugly but, and he knows it.
Great line about the invading army Matt
The real blessing of the internet is that big media no longer controls the news the way they did before. All you marchers, get out your cell phones, record and snap away and then get ready to upload!
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On the plus side, I actually hadn’t heard about a single one of those naked protests.
It is ALL about media coverage. Every American deserves to be made aware (and kept aware) of the magnitude and gravity of the legalized killing program, i.e. abortion,that is in-place in the United States. The mainstream news media is by far the most effective means for accomplishing this. Engaging the news media by whatever means necessary—short of total nudity—is extremely important! Opposing murder does not necessarily have to be done under the guise of religion or piety. You don’t have to be particularly devout to object to the wanton destruction of human beings.
“This past weekend, ten San Franciscans held a “No Pants Subway Ride Day” to protest laws against nudity.”
Really? Ick. I’m reluctant to sit on a subway car seat WITH pants. If nothing else, the folks in San Fran-sicko are brave.
“Be of good cheer!” (John 16:33)
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I’ll join you. But will someone call the media outlets and let them know that I am a rather large man so they’ll need to bring their wide angle lenses to capture me in all of my glory! P.S. they’ll need sunglasses too…cuz I live in the PAC NW and don’t get much sun….
I love this post. So funny yet so true. My favorite line is that we are better looking because the other side hit their prime around Woodstock. As far as being effective for us, I don’t know about that. The media is so afraid of the Pro-life message I wonder if even nudity could bring them around.
LOL. I needed that.
I know your comments are tongue-in-cheek and I think you’re right about the invading army going unnoticed if they carry pro-life signs. Here’s the deal: Pro-life teens are going to save the world. Have you talked to the “Pro-Life generation”? They’re smart, courageous, and willing to stand for life. I see hope; what do you see?
Just a bunch of ugly ol’ pervs who want to expose themselves.
So I’m six months pregnant with my fourth child and my husband finds it quite sexy. Me I just think I’m big, pregnant and certainly not sexy. But, Matt, now you’ve got me wondering what the media would think. Pregnant lady marching naked toward the white house protesting abortion. That has got to make the news.
My words is friends 13-where are the other 12 pregnant women who will march with me?
Thanks for the notice of intent. I’ll be sure to bring my binoculars to the March!
Prayers for an abundant turnout that they can’t ignore, and for a safe day for everyone.
The “Washington Examiner” is only local paper in my area to mention the upcoming March. There are more hotel bookings for that than the President’s 2nd inauguration next Monday!
Rather than nudity, we (at the risk of being accused of exploitation) need to bring our children. I’m no media whiz, but just from the response to Superbowl Ads, it’s obvious that kids and animals sell! We need to show those who are anti -life just how beautiful children are! We need to make them want one! Heck, Paris Hilton did it for toy dogs when she started carrying one around in a purse! An ad campaign featuring children saying “Thank you Mom and Dad ’ smiling irresistibly :) But, no. I saw the responses in the comments section on Yahoo. These few women had enormous negative feedback. Let them keep going naked. That’s actually good for us, bad for them. Anyone who is or knows a young person who would like to become active in the pro -life movement, please visit studentsforlife.org. Peer support, training and materials are free. More are needed to start chapters in high schools and colleges, This is a fight we can win, but we need to get more schools involved.
@Jenny - would it help that after five kids, I just look six months pregnant, lol! The news media wouldn’t have to know!
Do you suppose if Catholics across the country show up at church this Sunday in the buff, it would get the attention of our collective pastors and their respective bishops? Without clothing, we have no pockets. Without pockets, we have no money for the collection basket.
The single most effective force to educate those of us in the pews (Catholics that are pro-abortion, pro-same sex unions, pro-contraception) is to be educated by our own pastors, men that for the most part, are still trusted by the majority of us.
Instead of feel-good, 7-minute homilies that serve as time-fillers between the liturgies of the Word and the Eucharist, how about empowering our priests to really PREACH & TEACH, the fullness of the New Testament?
We can all then keep our clothes on, while “taking” only the Armor of the Holy Spirit: Ephesians Chapter 6, the most useful clothing we all wear.
Right on, Terah.(Love the name)
They’ve got a captive audience who have chosen to attend Mass. Why are they so afraid to preach the TRUTH? Where are they going to hear it, if not there? Do you think that with contraception and abortion primarily affecting females, that they won’t be taken seriously or authoritatively by the women in the pews? Do they really understand the pressure to contracept and abort felt by most women?
Really? All FOUR of them were topless? Honestly, that’s like the 10 people who showed up to hear Sandra Fluke speak at some Obama campaign event
The naked protesters might have gotten a lot of attention, but did they really make their point??
The fun part about the naked protest was, the Pope just kept speaking, and did not “Shut up his mouth…” He wasn’t shocked or bothered. Go Benedict!
“Woe to women lacking in modesty” these are Our Lady’s words to the children in Fatima in 1917. She also said that most souls wind up in hell because of sins of the flesh. Pray the Rosary every day as requested by Our lady, it defeats hell and no catholic or other in these troubling times can afford not to be saying it.
As for the four women exposing themselves in St. Peter’s square, are they also going to protest at other religions or are they cowards and just pick on easy targets, like the rest of the liberal media!
Love the church, long live the pope.
God bless,
Jacinta
Here’s my suggestions:
1. Bring along your pets. The animal rights crowd and the media would love it. Include in the March for Life a protest against the abortion of pre-born animal. THEN you’ll see the Brian Willimas, Scott Pellay and Diane Sawyer show up personally for interviews. Maybe even Bill Clinton will give a cameo appearance.
#2 Simply spread word through the media that marchers have been told to shed their clothes for the March. They would certainly cover anything that smacks of decadence.
Boy, sometimes it feels good to just laugh. Thanks for your humorous pokes at the media and its audience. There’s so much to lament about our modern culture, and we need to step off the “sad go-round” and be encouraged with the absolutely ridiculous. I’ll still be smiling about this at the end of the day!
As young and pretty as most of the marchers are, I’m sure they’ll get some pictures. Sadly, as the MSM ignores them, it’ll be What’shisname from GirlsGW or his minions.
Then again, if they use them in their videos, they might reach a crowd otherwise impervious to such things…
LOL! Loved this post! WHEN will the media, even FOX News, cover this event?? 400,000 people and it is only covered by EWTN. Thank GOD for EWTN! How can such an event be ignored year after year! It boggles the mind! If you have never been to this event, you would not believe the mass of pro-life humanity! Short of nudity, HOW DO WE GET THEIR ATTENTION?
@Tim Broderick…......Thank you for working as hard as you do to support the pro-life movement! Hope to see you at the breakfast this year and in DC on the 25th! God bless you!
In the “culture of life,” abortion, contraception, masturbation, homosexuality, public nudity, pornography and being liberal will be illegal. Assault weapons and magazines of 100+ ammunition will be a Constitutional right.
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Go figure…
I’ll go topless!
Double mastectomy. No reconstruction.
Breast cancer was probably caused from being on the pill for years and having first child after 25 (I was an atheist back then.)
Funny how noone believes that the Church really is the most pro-woman organization on earth!
At least, (despite the lack of catechesis of so many of our young people) there are many young women and married couples now using, and very effectively I might add, NFP. Creighton especially, it very scientifically based.
At least our Popes got it right, and unlike most American clergy, are brave enough to continue to speak of the harms of unnatural birth control.
Maybe my going topless will have a double-effect then, as it would also serve to show women, and the men that love them, one of the many harms of using birth control.
“I’ve often thought that if an invading army ever wanted to discreetly invade the capitol they should just hold up pro-life signs and they’d be absolutely ignored.”
So much awesome in just one line…
Dear Lee Brandon: At least when Archbold makes silly remarks in a column, it’s on purpose. ;)
@Lee Brandon. Abortion, contraception, masturbation, homosexuality, public nudity, and pornography KILL the body and/or the soul. Assault weapons and magazines kill no one, people do. Liberals rarely, if ever, get to the root cause of a problem.
It would not matter if everyone in the March for Life showed up naked. No one cares about the March for Life but the March for Lifers and the folks watching for “their” March for Lifers on EWTN. There will be in-depth coverage by EWTN and maybe an Evangelical network…maybe a wink from Fox…the major networks and CNN may blink at it. That’s about it. It seems to me for too many pro-lifers the “movement” has become an end in itself—the dinners, the meetings, the marches—it’s the whole “experience” of it.
No doubt marching pro-lifers feel passionate about ending abortion…but it’s just not effective. Wanna scare Hell out of the Devil? Start praying outside of and protesting ob-gyn clinics. There are more unborn children dying through hormonal contraceptives in churches, and, yes, at abortion protests, than in surgical abortion mills. The marchers all mean well, but it’s not working! This particular variety of “poison ivy” is going to have to be cut down and dug out at the root…and the root of it is the contraceptive mindset—telling Christ He is most UNwelcome as a little stranger in our supposedly “Christian” marriages. If we get that log out of our eyes, we may begin to get somewhere!
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If I were not crying so hard on the inside, I’d be laughing even harder
on the outside. What the heck—-hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
Pat Archbold—-you are the man!!!
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