Fr. Pfleger flies flag flipped
With humble apologies for the alliteration in the headline….
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) – The Rev. Michael Pfleger has ordered the American flag at St. Sabina Church hung upside-down — a historic sign of distress — to symbolize the growing death toll among the city’s youngsters.
So far this school year, 36 children and teens have been murdered — more than one a week — and Pfleger is among a chorus of weary Chicagoans who say the slayings aren’t getting the attention they deserve.
Had 36 kids died of swine flu this year, “there would be this great influx of resources that say, ‘Let’s stop this, lets deal with this,’ ” Pfleger said.
Instead, because violence is driving the epidemic, “We’re hiding it. We’re ignoring it. We’re denying the problems,” he said.
Do you remember Fr. Pfleger? He was the Chicago priest who had to take a vacation because his Bishop told him to tone down the pro-Obama rhetoric.
The key question, of course, is how anyone could miss the inconsistency here. We have seen 36 kids die of murder in Chicago this year. How many abortions have there been in Chicago this year? And yet Father is such a strong supporter of the guy who so consistently advocates murdering the ones we do not see.
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May 8th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I’m not sure why Father Pfleger believes that an unacceptably high crime rate in Chicago is the fault of the United States as a whole. It seems his protest would most effectively be directed toward local officials.
Like Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger is also a staunch supporter of Louis Farrakhan.
May 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Pfleger is barely a priest at this point, what with publicly threatening violence (telling a gun store owner “we will snuff you out”) and flauting the authority of his bishop (on the steps of the diocesan office, “he doesn’t have the [guts] to move me to another parish.”) He’s a celebrity and his parish is a cult of personality. Look at their website, you can barely even tell it’s Catholish.