THE DA VINCI PROTESTS
May 18th, 2006 by Peter
There will be several “Rallies of Reparation and Protest” against the anti-Christian Da Vinci Code movie throughout Connecticut the weekend it opens.
The O’Neil Theater located on Route 12 in Lisbon will be the site of one protest from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, May 19. Also on May 19, beginning at 11:00 a.m. and continuing throughout the day, there will be a protest in Manchester on the corner of Buckland Street and Redstone Road, at the bottom of the hill leading up to Showcase Cinemas. For more information on the Manchester protest contact Rosemarie DePillo at 860-748-3036.
On Saturday, May 20, there will be another protest at the same spot in Manchester from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. For more information on the Saturday protest—and the one in Lisbon—contact Patricia Bascom at (860) 533-0231.
These are just the protests we know of so far. Today’s Bristol Press reports on still more:
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) — in concert with its America Needs Fatima campaign — is holding protest prayer vigils throughout the country outside of movie theaters screening “The Da Vinci Code” this weekend, such as Destinta Theaters in Middletown and AMC Loews 20 in Plainville.
“We hope to establish a climate of rejection toward blasphemy so Hollywood thinks twice about making movies of this type,” said TFP spokesman John Horvat…
TFP’s Horvat hopes that people will take notice of the vigils and that they will influence their decision about seeing the film.
“Show me a theater owner that wants a protest and I’ll show you a theater owner that is out of business,” Horvat said.
One of the local protest organizers, a member of America Needs Fatima, was adamant when discussing with FIC why her group was holding the protest: “Because we love Jesus and His Church.”
Protests are just one of many Christian responses to the Da Vinci Code film. Act One’s Barbara Nicolosi is recommending an “othercott,” that is, seeing another movie this weekend in order to drive down Da Vinci’s opening weekend box office receipts. You can learn more about the othercott here. Nicolosi’s blog, Church of the Masses, can be viewed by clicking here.
There is one last local Da Vinci item that deserves mention in this space. Today’s Courant carries a fair-minded front page piece by Frances Grandy Taylor on Opus Dei, the Catholic organization defamed in the Da Vinci Code. The article includes interviews with local residents who are Opus Dei members. You can read it by clicking here.
