A reader writes:

Grrr…

Another year, another media blackout of the March for life. The only story I found about it in mainstream media was on a local DC news site. The Headline: March for life leads to more road closures.

How much longer do we have to go simply being obedient to the tastes and preferences of the chattering classes? How long before we can make life very uncomfortable for our news media and politicians (on both sides of the isle)? I don’t mean be violent, but there has to be a greater level of civil disobedience that we can achieve. We’re too kind and courteous to really upset someone’s day.

Any thoughts?

Don’t worry. You’re upsetting someone’s day. The news vacuum is eloquent testimony to that. It’s the sort of silence that screams “We are ignoring you” as loud as it can. And if pro-lifers go on with our vigils and protests, now that we have been “defeated”, refusing to acknowledge the defeat and continuing to be a peaceful testimony of conscience, I strongly suspect the culture of death will very soon explode with violence and persecution once they realize we will not roll over and play dead as we are supposed to do now that they have all the political power they want.

Your task is to continue to be Christ-like and not embrace the temptation to something more “radical”. The radicals will be coming your way soon enough. Brace yourself for that with prayer.