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TFP Opens Flier Floodgates to
Protest Blasphemy
(March 21, 2001)
Protest fliers are now
available for those who want to make their voices heard
about the Brooklyn Museum of Art's current exhibits which
many Catholic consider blasphemous. The American TFP and
its affiliate campaign America Needs Fatima announced the
fliers are the latest development in its peaceful protest
against the blasphemy.
According to press
reports, two blasphemous portrayals of Jesus Christ are
now on display at the museum - a photo of a nude woman standing
in Jesus' place at the Last Supper and another of a topless
woman on a cross. (Daily News Express, 2/15/01; Reuters,
2/15/01).
The TFP already announced
an April 21 rally of peaceful protest and reparation in
front of the museum and urged its supporters to send emails
of protest to the museum and emails of encouragement to
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
"Many of those
outside New York want to participate in this protest. These
cards are the ideal medium," says campaign director
Robert E. Ritchie. "With nearly a half million Stop
Blasphemy fliers out there, we expect the museum will receive
a flood of cards and the mayor can anticipate an outpouring
of support for his efforts to stop blasphemies that use
public money."
Thousands of Catholics
sent and distributed similar cards against the play Corpus
Christi and the movie Dogma. Mr. Ritchie says
thousands of volunteers have committed themselves to passing
out the fliers nationwide.
The exhibit has recently
come under attack by Edward Cardinal Egan who urged Catholics
to stand for "what is right and decent."(Daily
News, 3/5/2001)
To order your flyers, see below.
| Do Postcards Work?
It is a common thought. Sitting
in homes, a few thousand miles from a blasphemy or
an attack on Catholic morality, many wonder if postcards
have any results. Are these postcards meaningless?
Rest assured, they can be quite effective. Postcard
protests have all but stopped plays like Corpus
Christi and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.
Another telling example is the unrelenting debate
over the Vermont civil unions law.
Last March, the American TFP
began distributing hundreds of thousands of flyers
around the country protesting a same-sex civil union
bill in the Vermont State Legislature. The flyer had
two postcards: one addressed to the President of the
Vermont Senate and the other to the Speaker of the
House. Through considerable debate, the bill narrowly
became law. Most thought the battle had been lost.
"O ye of little faith"
the adage goes. Seven months later, Vermont legislators
have not let the issue die. The House has just passed
a measure which unequivocally states "gay"
marriage is not legal in Vermont. The bill extends
the marriage statutes to outlawing man-to-man and
woman-to-woman unions and limits discussion of homosexual
topics in schools.
Republicans captured an outright
majority in the House for the first time in fourteen
years largely because of opposition to the civil union
law. It was grassroots reaction that kept this issue
in the forefront of controversy, a telltale sign that
hard-hitting postcards were right on target.
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Be a part of this historic
campaign today!
To order Stop Blasphemy
protest fliers, click
here.
To send email messages
to The Brooklyn Museum of Art and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
click here.
You will find instructions
on how to get to the Brooklyn Museum rally at, http://www.brooklynart.org/information/Default.htm
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