The Deacon's Bench
Catholic clergy don their heavy black vestments every day, even covering their head with hoods and habits, but nude activist Gypsy Taub claims a pillar of the Catholic faith embraced nakedness, and is planning a naked march to the National Shrine of Saint Francis to make her point.
“We will be marching naked in solidarity with the holy man who was such a beacon of inspiration to our people that our city was name after him,” Taub said.
“Saint Francis was a nudist in the 12th century. It’s time that our society catch up with his ideals and his vision.”
On June 26th, Taub plans a rally at the National Shrine of Saint Francis, the namesake of the city, for the 238th anniversary of San Francisco’s cityhood. The city was actually founded June 29th, 1776.
Taub is engaged in on-going legal disputes with San Francisco over her repeated arrests, the treatment of other nude activists by police, and an overall legal claim of a First Amendment right to nude protests.
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