About 175 hearty souls gathered yesterday in front of the First Unitarian Church to enthusiastically show their support for New York State’s largest group of homicide victims, pre-born babies. The occasion of the gathering was an appearance by Governor Spitzer’s wife, Silda, who was there to advocate for the continued unrestricted killing of these innocent babies. About 150 people reportedly attended her speech inside that advocated for new state legislation to continue the abortion holocaust if Roe vs. Wade is ever overturned.

The contrast in the two groups that gathered was striking. The defenders of death that gathered to hear Mrs. Spitzer speak appeared to generally range in age from early fifty to late seventy. I didn’t see any children. They sat quietly and politely listened as Mrs. Spitzer droned on about infanticide. They didn’t appear to be having much fun at all.

In contrast, the defenders of life had many young babies and children gathered with them. It was an enthusiastic and upbeat crowd that marched, prayed and chanted their way through the almost two hour demonstration. Many people driving by were giving thumbs up and honking. This group was excited, energetic and happy to be there.

By the way, thank you Planned Parenthood for committing the tactical blunder of hosting this event on one of Rochester’s busiest streets at rush hour. There were no counter demonstrators to be seen. Apparently they were all inside staying warm and toasty.

The demonstration for life received plenty of news coverage. Jessica Shanahan, president of New Yorkers for Parental Rights, was especially genuine and forthright when speaking to the media. On the other hand her counterpart, Carol Love of Planned Parenthood, was only able to babble on mindlessly about “freedom” and “choice”. Even the media must be getting tired of this worn out verbiage.

In fact they were probably wondering why we were so happy, friendly and enthusiastic while the other side appeared to be so grim and bored. Pretty soon though they’ll catch on.

We are winning. They are losing. We are having children. They are contracepting. We are people of prayer. They are people of pleasure. We have a future. They have only a fleeting moment in time.

God bless all you beautiful pro-life people. I am proud to stand tall with you against the culture of death.