Watch this video of protesters representing America Needs Fatima, which believes that an angel appeared in 1916 in Portugal, and which offers calendars and holy items for sale on it’s website. Their spokesperson, Robert Ritchie, is from the group Tradition, Family and Property, and traveled to Lakewood, Ohio from Spring Grove, Pennsylvania to protest the Beck Center for the Arts’ presentation of the satirical play, Jerry Springer: The Opera, claiming that the play “has blasphemous elements.”
Watch this video of the picket line, their spokesperson’s statements to media, and the nun in the Groucho Marx glasses and nose organizing a counter-protest in support of freedom of speech and the Beck Center’s right to present theatre. BeckCenter.org.
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