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The Riot Women

8/19/2012

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Vince's face says it all.
I'm going to try really hard to remain civil.  I apologize in advance if If am less than perfect in my attempt.

Some of you may have been following the deplorable media frenzy over a certain Russian 'band' that decided to stage a blasphemous protest inside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.  For those of you that haven't, do yourselves a favor and simply skip this particular entry so you can remain blissfully unaware that such disregard for common decency exists in the world.

A couple months ago, members of this feminist group trespassed on sacred Cathedral grounds and brassly went up to the main sanctuary to the soleas (the platform in front of the gates that enclose the altar) and shrieked out an incredibly offensive string of lines aimed at denigrating Christians under the guise of opposing Putin.

Judging from the lyrics (and really... don't search them out unless you really want to upset yourself), they were mostly looking to humiliate Christians and drag our beliefs through the mud.  To do this in front of the main altar where Christ is present... oh Heaven!  Forgive us this travesty. 

When these yahoos were finally brought before a judge, they were found guilty of hooliganism and sentenced to two years in prison.

Of course everyone and their brother cried foul over this.  The media kicked into high gear blasting the government for stifling freedom of speech.  Instead of being viewed as a hate crime aimed at humiliating Christians, folks painted the picture of innocent women who just wanted to speak out against the injustice of Russian big-wigs. 

How anyone could possibly write this off as simply the government trying to stifle free speech is beyond me - especially given that these same women have landed themselves in prison before.  The ONLY reason they've attracted so much attention this time around is because of where they staged their antics. 

They chose the central Cathedral of Moscow because it'd garner the most publicity.  And instead of just staging this in front of the cathedral (where I doubt I'd've had an issue with it), they chose to go INSIDE the church and dare to go up to the sanctuary. 

I won't even go near the sanctuary, and I'm a practicing Catholic!

Sheesh!

And yet everyone who I've spoke to about this defends these women because the media is portraying this as an issue of free speech.  Instead, the media completely neglects the incredibly horrible injustice done to the Christians of that community.  Because most folks don't care about the beliefs of these people, they don't CARE that this injustice has been done.

*Shakes head*  That really worries me.

An incredible article that details just how distrurbing this is was written by Janice Shaw Crouse of The American Thinker. 

In attempting to explain this to atheist / agnostic / disagreeing friends, I likened it to a stunt orchestrated by a Christian in the middle of a homosexual support group.  Let's say Bob wants to protest President Obama because he believes President Obama is in bed with the homosexual lobby.  Instead of protesting someplace normal and open to the public, he decides to break into a homosexual support group meeting (or support community home) and yell anti-homosexual things. 

Should Bob be arrested?  YES!  For goodness sakes, he trespassed with the willful intent to denegrate homosexuals!  He'd be immediately labeled a homophobe, would probably be arrested and charged with a hate crime, and face an extremely publicized trial that would laugh at his attempt to use "freedom of speech" as a defense for his actions.

This is because most folks are in agreement with the homosexual lobby.  Most folks would rightly be offended that anyone would THINK to enter such a safe, sacred spot and begin bullying homosexuals in so offensive a manner - even under the guise of raging against the President.

Why, then, is this same outrage not shown to the Christians who are now left with months of restitution to serve in atonement for the treachery committed against their community by these women?

Ah yes - because it's perfectly acceptable to bully Christians.  It's perfectly acceptable - respected, even - to humiliate and denigrate Christianity. 

Again - this should be HIGHLY alarming to folks.  It certainly is to me.


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Pam
8/22/2012 02:24:09 am

I definitely agree with you on this post! It's terrible that some people can't see that there are hate crimes against all groups (even Christians), not just ones we typically hear about. It definitely is sad (and certainly not right) that hate crimes and mockery of Christians has become so accepted in the modern day society and culture.

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