This website is a member of Liberty Alliance, which has been named as an company.

Where Christianity intersects with politics, culture, and entertainment.


occupy

Occupy protestors chain themselves to pulpit

Several supporters of the anti-corporate Occupy movement chained themselves to the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral during a service Sunday in an action marking the anniversary of its now-dismantled protest camp outside the London landmark.

The Dean of St. Paul's, David Ison, said he was taking an evening prayer service when "four young women dressed in white" chained themselves to the structure.

"It will be a long, cold night if they want to stay there," he said.

Photos showed the women, one of whom was in a wheelchair, around the pulpit with a note written on an umbrella urging "throw the money changers out of the temple."

Other protesters unfurled a banner with a similar message outside the church.

Occupy said the women cut themselves free and left at around 10 p.m. (2100 GMT; 5 p.m. EDT), after police officers told them they faced arrest.

Continue reading at www.thestate.com
 
Posting Policy
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, vulgarity, profanity, all caps, or discourteous behavior. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain a courteous and useful public environment where we can engage in reasonable discourse. Read more.
  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/VBBCYNZUJPMNVGYK45HXRD7ZJ4 A Real American

    Arrest the protestors because "church" is private property, not public property.

    • Steve03

      St. Paul's belongs to the Church of England. As that church is by law established, with the Queen as its supreme head and governor on earth, it IS public property!

      • fliteking

        steve03 wins a tiny victory point on line in defense of OWS and they still make them haul their waste buckets.

  • mallen11

    This just shows how people with emotional brains think. Protesting is nothing but gang-like emotionalism where people are not thinking. Mobs are non-thinking and neurotic. There are other ways to disagree in our society that bring results with clear thinking.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O24NYT5HOQNDEJ3TUT5QOTLOF4 TM

    I would rather see them chain themselves to a tail end of a train in Siberia.

  • edc

    All liberalism is nothing but "symbolism over substance". It's all feel good religion.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004047180339 John Adams

    If I believed that the Church of England were truly Christian I would be very upset. However, in this case we have liberal nut cases "desecrating" an apostate mortuary.

  • Evermyrtle

    Throw away the key and let them stay chained for several days. Give enough food and water to sustain them and bring the little white portable potty for them to use, and if they insist place curtain (maybe a white bed sheet)around the potty, when they need to use it. o-h-h they do not get a choice of food or drink..

  • fliteking

    Article: " "four young women dressed in white" chained themselves to the structure."

    I am reasonably sure the one all the way back is a cross dresser.