{"id":1466860,"date":"2022-05-06T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466860"},"modified":"2022-05-06T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T19:29:54","slug":"biden-shrugs-as-catholics-brace-for-pro-abortion-protests-on-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-shrugs-as-catholics-brace-for-pro-abortion-protests-on-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Shrugs As Catholics Brace For Pro-Abortion Protests On Mother\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-shrugs-as-catholics-brace-for-pro-abortion-protests-on-mothers-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466860&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-06-at-2.53.23-PM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is shrugging off anxieties surrounding calls for pro-abortion Mother\u2019s Day protests in churches as Catholic parishes brace themselves for disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>In an email to parishioners Friday, Reverend William Gurnee of St. Joseph\u2019s parish on Capitol Hill announced that he had just received information from the police chaplain for the Archdiocese of Washington indicating that \u201cthe protesters at the Supreme Court might seek to disrupt Mass this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have asked for the police to be ready to intervene,\u201d Gurnee said in the email, which was obtained by The Daily Wire. \u201cTherefore, if the protesters come into the church, we are not to engage with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter which side of an issue a person is on, we should have the right to worship in peace,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will be respectful to them and we hope they are respectful of us.\u00a0I pray that you will not change your plans to attend Mass because this weekend we will celebrate the confirmation of three young men and Mother\u2019s Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire also reviewed an email from St. Peter\u2019s parish on Capitol Hill in which the pastor said there exists \u201ca credible threat of our masses being disrupted this weekend by protestors.\u201d The email asks parishioners to ignore such disruptions and focus on the mass.<\/p>\n<p>The Archdiocese of Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment for this story.<\/p>\n<p>Such disruptions would be a grave violation of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, according to the former director of the Office of Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, who said that such protests \u201cabsolutely can and should be prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The FACE Act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/offenses-against-reproductive-health-care-providers\">prohibits<\/a> \u201cviolent, threatening, damaging and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right\u201d to obtain abortions. It also bans the use of force, physical obstruction, injury, or intimidation to \u201cinjure, intimidate or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s despicable, anti-Catholic bigotry,\u201d Severino told The Daily Wire, \u201cbecause the church stands in defense of innocent human life. It doesn\u2019t get any more offensive than that, to try to interfere with somebody\u2019s First Amendment freedoms in the name of supporting abortion on demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s shocking in one sense, but also it\u2019s the logical consequences of the devaluing of life that has resulted as a consequence of <em>Roe versus Wade<\/em>, which has poisoned our court, our courts, our culture,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd our unity as a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protestors have also promised to demonstrate outside the homes of the conservative Supreme Court justices, but asked if\u00a0Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/that-doesnt-cut-it-ben-sasse-tears-into-biden-for-failing-to-condemn-doxxing-harassment-of-the-supreme-court\">condones the publishing<\/a> of the Supreme Court justices locations, White House Press Secretary said that Biden\u2019s view \u201cis that there is a lot of passion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say he has a view on that,\u201d Psaki said Friday, asked if the president wants protestors to influence the justices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president believes in peaceful protest,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cHe believes that is part of our Democracy and part of the history of the United States and this country. But he also respects and understand the independence of the third branch of government\u2026and the role of the Supreme Court and what they play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has not responded to The Daily Wire\u2019s requests for comment regarding the doxxing of the justices or the projected protests in Catholic Churches, though the\u00a0president and his administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/02\/media-biden-devout-catholic-liberal-ideology\/\">repeatedly tout his Catholic faith<\/a>\u00a0even in abortion contexts (the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a crime against human life).<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Catholic Vote called on Biden to publicly condemn any effort to disrupt Catholic masses by pro-abortion protestors. The group also called on the Biden administration and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday to protect Catholic churches, reminding Garland that he has \u201can obligation to alert every U.S. Attorney across the country and remind them of the law and their duty to enforce\u201d the FACE Act.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe aggressive rage exhibited by pro-abortion advocates over the past week, and the plans of anti-Catholic zealots to disrupt Catholic masses around the country this weekend, is a vile attempt to harass, threaten, and intimidate,\u201d Catholic Vote President Brian Burch said in a statement. \u201cIt is religious bigotry of the worst kind.\u00a0It is also against the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s either tone deaf or callous or both,\u201d Severino said. \u201cThere are pro-life people, including our Supreme Court justices, being threatened with violence because they\u2019re taking a stand against violence in the womb. That\u2019s a supreme irony. Psaki didn\u2019t mention any of that. She wants to shift the focus onto anything other than the threats on pro-lifers in America, including constitutionalist judges and the threats to unborn life in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former former director of the Office of Civil Rights warned that the threats from pro-abortion protestors indicate the United States is \u201centering a dangerous phase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s to be expected, when the culture of death wants to hold on to its power, it will stop at nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd there\u2019s no depths to which it will not go to push its deadly agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is shrugging off anxieties surrounding calls for pro-abortion Mother\u2019s Day protests in churches as Catholic parishes brace themselves for disruptions.In an email to parishioners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1481915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}