A First-Hand Report on the Granholm / OLGC Debacle
Victor Lams has a first-hand report with photographs of Our Lady of Good Council in Plymouth, Michigan (a few miles from my own church), along with photographs of the church as seen from the vantage point of the protestors. Plus, a copy of this week’s bulletin and of a letter allegedly handed out by Ms. Granholm’s husband after Mass.
I especially liked his description of the OLGC neighborhood:
OLGC … is the Catholic Church in town where all the upper-middle-class and upper-class whitebread folks go. These are the folks who live in the subdivisions which surround the Church. And you know what type of subdivisions I mean, too: the ones which have popped up like mushrooms over the last 5-10 years; the ones with the $400,000-$700,000 homes which look like they were designed when Frank Lloyd Wright and Michelangelo got in a fight over who could have the last toke from the waterpipe: conflicting architectural styles clashing all about and all built as cheaply as possible by contractors out to make a quick buck off some dumb rich folks. Anyway, you can see how such ofay types would be offended by any sort of contraversy, much less those which offend their “it’s so closed minded to believe that your personal opinion is true,” sensibilities.Anyway, all those mean, nasty protesters Fr. Doc’s been telling you about? Well, before the 10am Mass this morning there were about 9 or 10 folks standing on the sidewalk by the Church’s two parking-lot entrances. Two folks had the more graphic signs but the majority of the signs were just words: “To be Catholic is to be Pro-Life,” etc. One guy had a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe and another had a picture of Jesus praying in the garden. That was it. No magaphones, no chanting, just folks milling about with signs about 150-yards from the entrance to the Church.
It is to weep. Pray for the upcoming election in Michigan.
“Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like.”
— G. K. Chesterton
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