Wow, talk about a post that will hit you between the eyes.
Fasten your seatbelts, folks, I’m on a tare.
The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance. While the title I have chosen represents only among many and differently attributed variations of this wise observation, accurate phrasing and attribution is of less importance when compared to the urgency and importance each one of us must place upon understanding–and embodying–the unchanging among variations message.
This is ridiculous arresting people for praying outside. It shouldn’t of mattered if they stopped to pray either. The police were discriminating.
Washington, DC – Six pro-life activists, including a Catholic Priest, were arrested Thursday outside the White House for kneeling in prayer in opposition to the Obama Administration’s mandate compelling groups of faith to provide insurance to employees that would cover abortion-causing drugs.
Led by Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, a group of about thirty activists had gathered on the sidewalk outside the White House to pray and peacefully protest the immoral mandate. It is legal to demonstrate at that site as long as one continues to move. Once the six protesters knelt in prayer, they were arrested for disobeying a lawful order. They were released a short time later after they each paid a $100 fine. Rev. Mahoney was the first to be arrested.
I cried when I read this post. It is a good memorial for great man and President, Ronald Reagan.
I still tremble when I see this picture, and share the sentiments of this hero, this somber Marine, who unknowingly but most effectively expressed the sentiments of untold millions of people here at home and worldwide as he saluted the casket containing the body of one of the finest men, and greatest and most beloved presidents our Republic has known.
May we always remember the “Gipper” and take pause to offer a prayer for President Reagan on this, the occasion of the 101st anniversary of his birthday. -Alan Sexton, GMS