Kerry Staffer Seizes Sign From Post-Abortive Woman

LIFENEWS.COM, March 12 — Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, was speaking in Tampa, Fla., recently when Rebecca Porter showed up with a simple sign reading: “My abortion hurt me.”

“I did not go as a Bush supporter or as a Republican but as a woman hurt by abortion,” Porter, Florida director of Operation Outcry Silent No More, a pro-life group of post-abortive women, told the pro-life news website. “There was no protest. We were not there to say anything. Just to let our signs speak for us — and they did, powerfully.”

Kerry “reached up to shake a hand in the back and his eyes went up to my sign. He read it and then he looked into the crowd to see who was holding it — and he looked me directly in the eyes,” she said. “I hope he saw my pain. I was not angry, just pleading with him to understand. You could see the shock and surprise on his face.”

Within seconds, a Kerry campaign aide seized the sign from Porter's hands and destroyed it in front of her. Porter said most Kerry supporters looked at her in silence, though one said he wished her abortion had killed her.

Gibson to Make Maccabees Movie

IRELAND ONLINE, March 17 — Fresh from making a movie that angered Jewish activists, Mel Gibson is moving on to make a movie about angry Jewish activists — the heroic martyrs and warriors of Israel depicted in the last book of the Old Testament, the Maccabees.

This family of devout Jews offered their lives in a protracted, ultimately victorious guerrilla war against foreign occupiers who had attacked the Jewish faith.

According to Ireland Online, this project is the next film scheduled for Gibson's Icon Productions.

“The story that's always fired my imagination … is the Book of Maccabees,” Gibson told a radio interviewer. “It's about Antiochus, the king who set up his religion in the Temple, and forced them all to deny the true God and worship at his feet and worship false gods. The Maccabees family stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning.”

The Jewish feast of Hannukah commemorates one of the miracles attending the successful Maccabee resistance. Meanwhile, “60 Minutes” curmudgeon Andy Rooney told the Associated Press he had received some 30,000 pieces of mail and e-mail responding to his Feb. 22 comment about Gibson being a “wacko.” A CBS spokesman called it the biggest viewer response in the show's 36-year history.

C.S. Lewis to Hit the Big Screen

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 14 — Walt Disney Co. has announced its plans to mount a big-budget production of C.S. Lewis' beloved allegory The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, obtaining the movie rights from media baron Philip Anschutz, a devout Christian.

One of the film's producers, Mark Johnson, told The New York Times: “We are intent on not making this into a Christian movie. But it will be seen by many loyal readers as a very Christian movie.”