Pro-life Profs March "in Drag"

He’s a very serious scholar. The German professor Uwe Siemon-Netto holds advanced degrees in theology and sociology. He is director of the Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life. So I was not prepared for his answer when I asked him how he organized a protest demonstration outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis. “We needed to attract attention,” he said, “so, why not go in drag?” I burst out laughing. He meant, of course, not seminary professors dressed up as women, but learned profs marching for life in their full, flowing academic gowns. And what a public display they made! They took part in the Forty Days of Life movement during the last Lenten season. Dr. Siemon-Netto wanted especially to show Ph.D.s demonstrating their concern for unborn children. These Lutherans processed from Concordia Lutheran Seminary, where pastors are trained for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). Monsignor Theodore Wojcicki from the Catholic Kenrick Glennon Seminary of the Archdiocese of St. Louis brought with him almost the entire faculty; they were joined by a Dominican monk from the Aquinas Institute and a Jewish convert to Catholicism.

One hundred years ago, you would never have seen Lutherans and Catholics marching together in Saint Louis—or in any other part of the U.S. But they have been brought together by the strongest ties of Christian solidarity—the need to protect God’s gift of life. Read the rest here.

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