Protests Increase at Notre Dame
May 15th, 2009
Dr. Alan Keyes - now arrested two times at Notre Dame - has joined demonstrators at the University of Notre Dame who are protesting the school’s choice of President Obama as commencement speaker and decision to award him an honorary doctor of laws degree.
The former presidential candidate takes issue with Obama’s total commitment to abortion. Keyes was among several arrested by campus police recently and considers the action to be abuse of power.
“They invoked this obviously in order to defend an action that has been condemned by the Catholic Church [and] repudiated by the bishops that is in direct contravention of the stand that was taken and the instruction that was given to all Catholics and all institutions that we should not honor those who are perpetrating and supporting this evil,” says Keyes.
The group was arrested on charges of trespassing. “Some people have described this as civil disobedience, but that’s not true,” Keyes explains. “In fact, the people who are bearing witness to the real evil nature of abortion and to the scandalous nature of this invitation and honorary degree — we are being piously obedient.”
The president speaks Sunday. Demonstrations will continue through that time.
For the last three weeks, one pro-life group — the Center for Bio Ethical Reform — has been conducting its “Obama Awareness Campaign” in South Bend. The group’s “Abortion Plane,” a tow banner airplane, has been soaring over the campus during that time in hopes of connecting the president to what it labels as the “abortion holocaust.”
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