{"id":5622,"date":"2009-08-21T06:20:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/what-do-you-think-1.html"},"modified":"2009-08-21T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T06:20:25","slug":"what-do-you-think-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/what-do-you-think-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday is for Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Protesters.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/imgs\/Protesters.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" height=\"326\" width=\"350\" \/><\/span>Scot,<\/p>\n<p>Most days, as I leave my job at the community college, these people are<br \/>\nstanding at the intersection holding up very large posters of aborted<br \/>\nfetuses. Yesterday, there was only one poster holder, but several<br \/>\nstudents were holding up blankets to block the view of the poster. As<br \/>\nthe poster holder tried to move out of their way they also moved. I had<br \/>\nmy camera so I took some pictures (it&#8217;s a long stoplight).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial\"><b>My questions: how do you feel about this kind of protest to<br \/>\nabortion?&nbsp; I actually pass by another one everyday that&#8217;s in front of<br \/>\nPlanned Parenthood. Is this an effective protest?&nbsp; What is their main<br \/>\nobjective?&nbsp; Who are these people?&nbsp; Do they represent the church?&nbsp; Do<br \/>\nthey do more harm than good?&nbsp;<\/b> <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: black\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><font color=\"black\"><font size=\"2\"><font face=\"Arial\">Barb<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/><font color=\"black\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;font-family: Arial;color: black\"><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scot, Most days, as I leave my job at the community college, these people are standing at the intersection holding up very large posters of aborted fetuses. 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As the poster holder tried to move&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-issues"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday is for Friends - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/08\/what-do-you-think-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday is for Friends - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scot, Most days, as I leave my job at the community college, these people are standing at the intersection holding up very large posters of aborted fetuses. 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