Creed

Nice snarky reply. I normally enjoy talking football with the fine folks on this board, but apparently there are bullies here who are anti-Catholic or are intolerant of differing viewpoints (dare mention of other viewpoint is slippery slope lol). My teaching to the "class": Go back a re-read my comment. It said: 'from conception TO natural death" that implies respect for human life at all stages of life. I'll be sticking to other venues where hatred isn't so prevalent with its members. Never thought I'd get this level of bashing from Husker fans and I am sure when I sign off you'll continue the anti-catholic bashing and be proud of it.

Taught by whom?

It's a voluntary mission trip paid by the students/parents. Pro life (conception to natural death) is one of the many ministries of the Catholic church (and other churches I assume) and is taught from a loving and prayerful perspective. Unfortunately, when people think of pro life they associate radical anti-abortion activities with this ministry.

Didn't mean to cause issue, the facts are radical groups support(ed) both presidents. You should be able to mention both sides.

I guess so but I really pay no attention to KKK or NN as they are a spit in the Ocean of Trump supporters just as the Black Panthers or other radical groups outwardly supported Obama. I guess it depends how offended you are by those fringe groups.

Prepping became popular after Obama took office. The Montana land thing was just a rumor started out of fear.

Sad state of America then especially when you read reports of Americans, people supporting our president (not the Cov Cath kids) being assaulted just for wearing that hat.

There was a group of people called "preppers" who prepped for end of America. There was a TV reality show about them. Prepping supply companies popped up. There were stories that the Obama administration purchased land in Montana to imprison the religious right.

Agree but would change to since Obama took office (just flipped flopped). Remember the preppers who thought Obama was the anti-Christ? Our country has been divided since 2008

So where Chiefs fans yesterday. The NFL should outlaw that. I think the kids were in the middle of their school chants they do at their sporting events and a few did the tomahawk cheer as the elder was beating his drum as that is common at sporting events these days. I guess you would need to ask the kids what their intent was.

I guess that's is on the parents and teachers then and they shouldn't have them wear a hat that states Make America Great bc that is akin to a white robe. Knowing many of the parents, they would never want to have their kids promote white supremist ideas and wearing a hat that offends. I guess we have to be very careful today not to offend other with our outfits.

I'd have to look at video again but there were 10-15 kids in Maga hats out of the 100+ kids. From I am told from my friends, they were purchased while site seeing in DC and their parents didn't send them there in MAGA hats.

This is an annual trip for the March for Life Rally on anniversary of Roe vs Wade in Jan 1973. There are usually parent, teacher and pastor chaperones and I do not recall any past issues. My guess is they were at the wrong place at the wrong time with these protestors. They picked unfortunate meeting place to load the buses and head back to Ky. The March for Life has been going on since 1974. It is a peaceful and prayer 1-2 days. It is definitely not "designed to disrupt the Women's March" which started 3 years ago. The March for Life has nothing to do with MLK, it is a protest on the anniversary of Roe vs Wade

Yes, they got permission from a chaperone to do their school chants to drown out the racial slurs and other insults thrown at them. Cov cath chants are not mean spirited in any fashion. My guess is there were only so many adults per number of kids and there was obviously a lot going on (cant be everywhere all the time). The interaction with the elder was only a minute or so and unfortunately the adult was not close enough to that interaction to step in. In hindsight there probably should have been more adults around but Cov Cath and other Diocese of Covington schools have sent groups to DC for years without major incident (that I am aware of) (my kids have gone there btw) and felt the number of adults was appropriate. My guess is the Diocese will have further guidelines for future DC trips. That is, how students and chaperone should deal with protestors or people yelling anti-Catholic insults at them.

Just to add some more info to this ugly situation. While not on the front lines, I have several friends that are Cov Cath alumni and/or their boys attend there currently and a couple were at the March 4 Life rally. My son would have attended Cov Cath if not for a work relocation. My friends were calling for the truth and both sides to be heard at the inception and were met with vile & condemning remarks. The news headlines labeled the 17 year old as "mocking" "taunting" "intimidating". I have seen twitter posts with the kid's picture that said "the most punchable face in America". People attacking the kids said "he looked smug" or "he looked" this or that. Do people know how wrong that is? He is 17 and most of the kids I knew that go to that school live a pretty sheltered life (middle to upper middle class) and in his statement said he had never encountered a protest situation. He looked uncomfortable and just smiled for a couple seconds at the Indian Elder. His statement said by smiling he wanted the elder to know he meant no harm. My son is 14 and in high school and I am 100% sure that if someone came up to him in that situation, he would have just stood there listening to the drum beat hoping an adult would step in and help. What led to the elder and his drum were the black Hebrew group hurling insults at the boys waiting for their bus. Now, when you have 100 or so teens waiting around, I am sure they were not sitting there quietly admiring the scenery. They probably were loud and to adults seemed like obnoxious teens. The black Hebrew groupl called the boys "crackers" "incest babies" "racist" and called one of the black Cov Cath students the N word. In response, the boys asked an adult for permission to do school cheers. Cov Cath is a school with a lot of school spirit. This probably agitated others as well and that's when the elder intervened. The indian elder's later account said he needed to step in to save the black Hebrews from the "beasts" (aka Cov Cath boys).