HMMM, Meat Loaf?
Creepy, indeed!
Posted on 01/14/2015 6:36:49 PM PST by Morgana
Tending to St. James Episcopal Church’s Facebook page typically isn’t a lot of work for the Rev. Dawn Frankfurt, the church’s rector since 2011.
That changed last week.
That’s when people started posting they were outraged that the church on East Douglas in College Hill was playing host to a “Chili for Choice” fundraiser Jan. 22 – the anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that affirmed abortion as a constitutional right. The fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri will benefit Wichita’s clinic, which provides reproductive care such as well-woman exams and contraceptives but doesn’t offer abortion services.
“Tons of awful stuff was being posted on our Facebook page,” Frankfurt said. “Our reach was up to about 18,000 people. I almost immediately turned off the ability to make posts on our page.”
People no longer could post to the page, but they still could comment on posts. Frankfurt eventually reported comments to Facebook, and since then, the number of posts she considered offensive have dwindled.
The event has been at St. James the past four years and had never been the subject of protest before, she said Tuesday.
“But last Monday when we came to work,” Frankfurt said, “the phones were just starting to ring off the hook. People were asking ‘Are you really hosting a chili event to celebrate 42 years of murder?’ ”
Some messages warned members of the church that they were going to hell.
“We knew immediately there was something going on,” Frankfurt said. “We became aware it was a bigger deal than we thought on Wednesday of last week when the Wichita police called and said ‘We’ve been made aware of a protest that may happen at your church and we’d like to talk to you about it.’ ”
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““Tons of awful stuff was being posted on our Facebook page,”
Save lives! How awful!
The “Episcopal Church” is just creepy.
Guess what’s in the chili...
My exact thought!
where’d they get the meat from?
Planned Parenthood should be banned from having fund raisers due to the overwhelming amount of money they get from the gubmint.
Can someone please post the email of the church for us to FReep?
Got this from Google. No email address, but there’s a phone number.
St. James Episcopal Church
3750 East Douglas Avenue, Wichita, KS 67208
(316) 683-5686
Facebook link:
https://www.facebook.com/stjameswichita
Thanks.
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