How Many Times Will Anti-Abortion Activists Interupt Obama’s ND Speech?
It’s hard to say. While Bush was in office, anyone protesting were moved a distance away so they wouldn’t be seen by him, the media or anyone else for that matter. Apparently, abortion and gay marriage are the only two things on the planet that we are suffering from, at least in the eyes of the RR and conservative Christians. I say let them continue as they represent one of the things that the American public voted away when they rid them selves of the Republican mess and all they represented. I think the more the RR protests, the more people are going to look on them with distain.

I like how you called them anti-abortion protesters. Abortion is a major part of the pro-life doctrine of the Catholic Church but it is by no means the only one. To claim that you are pro-life when you fail to support other pro-life issues does not make it so.

Replace Bolshevik Universitiy presidents with Patriotic Americans.
Scary indeed! Now the freedom destructive LEFT has stolen another sacred conservative value theme – religion. They already captured environment, animal rights, helping the poor, family assistance, etc. All stolen from conservative principles in order to cover up their evil political agenda. It’s the proven Bolshevik tactic. Use good sounding non threatening names and causes in order to deceive everybody. See, how more and more voters from with least to highest education buy into those lies and put the LEFT into office in school boards, city, state and federal government.
University presidents are the criminals! They are in the forefront in leading generation after genertion of precious young citizens into tyranny.

Any real christian should oppose and separate as far as possible from any function, policy or organization that is pro-abortion. I applaud John D’Arcy for his bravery in taking such an unpopular stand. It takes guts to say “No!” Which Obama and apparently the president of Notre Dame don’t have.

This reminds me of the time that George W. Bush was scheduled to give the commencement address at Calvin College, and some faculty members, students and supporters were upset. Rauchenbush was all over that too i’m sure, expressing concern about potential disruptions and inhospitable crowds. He was, right? Right?

Anti-abortion protesters? Why not call the catholics at a catholic university?

This reminds me of the time that George W. Bush was scheduled to give the commencement address at Calvin College, and some faculty members, students and supporters were upset.
I was there; it was my brother’s graduation. Calvin is also my alma mater. Despite the (rightly held) disgust by many for George W. Bush and his promotion of un-Christian and un-American things like torture, preemptive war, spying on Americans, authoritarianism, criminality at the highest levels of government, and general priority for the greed of multinational corporations over the needs of normal people, there were no disruptions.
Many wore stickers saying “God is not a Republican or a Democrat,” some turned their backs, some (like me) joined a protest on the street before the event, but there were no people standing up, screaming, and disrupting like the anti-choice people did at the DNC Faith Celebration (I was there too).
But don’t let that little pesky fact get in the way of your rather pathetic attempt to tar Rauschenbush by suggesting that he should have jumped up and down and screamed for order back in 2005 or he’s a hypocrite now.

Hopefully none because Notre Dame will have rescinded the invitation by then. When a “Catholic” college invites a pro-abortion absolutist to speak at their university, it is a sad commentary on how anyone can claim to be “pro-life”. Even someone like President Obama who was willing to follow his beliefs to their logical end and accept outright infanticide.

The implication of this post is that it’s far worse to oppose abortion than to, you know, support the killing of babies. Why is this post even on beliefnet?

Obama will probably try to deal with the protestors in good way. He will recognize the principles behind their protest and suggest that the sacredness of life extends over the entire life of the individualnot just the time spent in the womb. Our care for life should continue after birth and throughout infancy, teens, and adulthood. Abortions can be significantly reduced by reducing poverty and increasing the availability of medical care and education. Obama will try and make the event as positive as he can under the circumstances.

“He will recognize the principles behind their protest”
Anyone who recognized the principle–that life is sacred even in the womb–doesn’t talk about not wanting his daughters to be “punished” with a child. Obama wouldn’t recognize pro-life principles if they were screaming in his face.

Mr. Chris:
I too am perplexed, not just at the pro-abortion comments on Beliefnet, but at number of pro-world view (anti-Christian) bloggers who are allowed to post on here.
I just came on Beliefnet for the first time this morning, and began looking around. I’m astonished at the number of people who are proud of the fact they believe the exact same things as the non-believers!!

I too am perplexed, not just at the pro-abortion comments on Beliefnet, but at number of pro-world view (anti-Christian) bloggers who are allowed to post on here.
Why? This isn’t an explicitly Christian site. It’s a site for religious (and non-religious) people of all stripes. But by all means, anyone who disagrees with you should be censored.
I’m astonished at the number of people who are proud of the fact they believe the exact same things as the non-believers!!
So we’re now simply to define ourselves against “non-believers” instead of for something? If “non-believers” (which is, I might add, an extremely loaded and pejorative phrase) think something, it should automatically be at the very least suspect?
What a narrow worldview.

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Mr. Gilmore (James), I believe you have missed the point that “Your Name” was making. The name of this site is “Beliefnet”, in case you haven’t noticed. If individuals that have no spiritual beliefs or faith in God, come in and make themselves at home, then what separates this site as “Beliefnet” from one such as “Anythingnet?”
I don’t believe the gentleman was saying that he doesn’t accept others’ as having the right to their own views, just that secular, humanistic, or atheistic views have no place here. I, too, feel the discordancy of which he speaks. This is not narrow-mindedness, it is simply adhereing to your principles.