Run Amy Run
My friend John Miller and his wife Amy made it into today's Washington Times.
Church campaigner
"My wife went totally Catholic on me this morning — not an inappropriate thing, when you consider that it's Sunday and we were leaving Mass," John J. Miller writes in the Corner, a daily blog compiled by contributors at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).
"Now, you need to understand a couple things. First, Amy is not a very confrontational person (except when I forget to do the dishes). She certainly isn't confrontational with strangers. She's also a hard-core pro-lifer. So it really got her Irish up (as we say around the Miller household) to see a lady passing out Kerry-Edwards bumpers stickers on church property," Mr. Miller said.
"At Amy's urging, I rolled down the window and offered a few choice words. But then Amy insisted that we turn around and tell the priest. So we did, and he marched out and asked Kerry's minion not to harass his parishioners after Mass on church grounds. She refused. Our priest didn't have time to bicker — there was another Mass to give, and more unborn children to pray for — and so he left the scene. Then we told the Kerry lady that she really ought to leave because of Kerry's views on issues vital to the Catholic Church. She told us she respected our views and didn't budge.
"It seems to me that if you disobey a Catholic priest's request to quit pamphleteering after Mass on church property, then no, you don't respect Catholic views."
My friend John Miller and his wife Amy made it into today's Washington Times.
Church campaigner
"My wife went totally Catholic on me this morning — not an inappropriate thing, when you consider that it's Sunday and we were leaving Mass," John J. Miller writes in the Corner, a daily blog compiled by contributors at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).
"Now, you need to understand a couple things. First, Amy is not a very confrontational person (except when I forget to do the dishes). She certainly isn't confrontational with strangers. She's also a hard-core pro-lifer. So it really got her Irish up (as we say around the Miller household) to see a lady passing out Kerry-Edwards bumpers stickers on church property," Mr. Miller said.
"At Amy's urging, I rolled down the window and offered a few choice words. But then Amy insisted that we turn around and tell the priest. So we did, and he marched out and asked Kerry's minion not to harass his parishioners after Mass on church grounds. She refused. Our priest didn't have time to bicker — there was another Mass to give, and more unborn children to pray for — and so he left the scene. Then we told the Kerry lady that she really ought to leave because of Kerry's views on issues vital to the Catholic Church. She told us she respected our views and didn't budge.
"It seems to me that if you disobey a Catholic priest's request to quit pamphleteering after Mass on church property, then no, you don't respect Catholic views."