Definition: Rally – to bring or gather together for action.

Definition: Ecumenical – pertaining to the whole Christian church. Service – a religious ceremony or ritual.

Clearly the ideas behind a rally and an ecumenical service are not parallel. This might seem obvious to some of us, but it certainly was not obvious to Feminist Front members who thought it necessary to protest a religious prayer service Sunday night.

About 25 Feminist-Front members marched into the Ecumenical Memorial Service sponsored by pro-life supporters who had intended to honor the past and future aborted fetuses.

Of course freedom of speech should be honored, and both pro-choice and pro-life speakers have the right to be heard. However, a religious service is not an open debate forum. It is people praying to a supreme being for whatever it is they believe in.

The Feminist Front has held pro-choice rallies in the past, and they did do their part in hearing both sides of the argument by allowing some pro-lifers to speak, even though that was not the purpose of their rally. If the pro-lifers held a rally Sunday and did not allow their opposition to be heard, they might have acted unfairly.

But the fact of the matter remains, the pro-life supporters did not organize a rally—they organized a prayer service.