Selective Screening

Is pro-life too political? I guess at one basilica in Montreal. From LifeSiteNews:

MONTREAL, August 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Montreal priest has turned away young pro-life pilgrims from entering the city’s basilica because their message in defense of the unborn was too political.

Wearing stylish jeans and a white button-down shirt, Fr. Robert Gagne, PSS, insisted that the young people walking across Canada to promote the pro-life message could not enter the famous Basilica to pray because of the ‘pro-life’ message emblazoned on their T-shirts. ...

The T-shirts were in French stating ‘pro-vie’ in large letters across the font. The French-language tees came courtesy of Campaign Life Coalition’s Quebec branch – Campagne Quebec Vie (CQV). CQV President Georges Buscemi was at the Basilica Monday to pray with the Crossroads team.

Buscemi said he was taken aback at the rejection - especially in light of the scanty clothing and 50-cent T-shirts passing muster at the same entrance - and told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) it was like Notre Dame had been caught being a ‘den of thieves’ rather than a house of worship.