The Anglican Journal is biased: it reports with breathless reverence on what looks to me like a couple of hundred people on Parliament Hill indulging in a blanket exercise “to help people understand Canada’s history from an Indigenous perspective” and completely ignores 22,000 people meeting on Parliament Hill for the March for Life.
There were Anglicans at both; which looks more newsworthy to you? Here are the blankets:
And here is the March for Life:
See more here.
The service before the March:
Anglicans for Life and Silent no More:
I have just returned from the annual Ottawa March for Life. I’ll publish more photos in a later post.
Estimates of how many attended vary between 20,000 (march organisers) and 4,000 (mainstream media). Estimating the numbers in a large crowd is tricky but I think the number of people on the hill was closer to 20,000 than 4,000.
Some of the Anglicans for Life attendees:
The march was shorter than previous years because protesters against the march had blocked the road, so we were rerouted. Typically, those campaigning for freedom of choice quail at the prospect of anyone making a choice at odds with their choice and resort to the tactic commonly used by communists, fascists and over-sensitive bishops alike: try to suppress the free expression of the opposition. Here are the protestors being held in check by police:
Some Anglicans for Life clergy:
Some of the peaceful opposition:
We have much better signs:
And off we go:
Anglicans tire easily. After the march:
These two were keeping an eye on things from the top of the parliament building:
