Fathers Rights Group Scale Abbey (from This Is Local London)
Fathers Rights Group Scale Abbey (from This Is Local London)
By Martina Smit
Two fathers’ rights protestors have tied a dummy of the crucified Jesus Christ to the front of Westminster Abbey.
The campaigners, of Real Fathers for Justice (RF4J), climbed about 60ft up the wall with the dummy dressed in a T-shirt reading: “Our Father Who Art in Hell”.
RF4J claimed the state “crucified” fathers by denying them equal access to their children.
Both men are divorced fathers who have not seen their children in four and five years respectively, said the group’s spokesman Mike Kelly.
They scaled the West Tower of the church at round 7am today and planned to stay there until Easter Monday.
“They were meant to be dressed as Roman Soldiers, but police got onto the roof and snatched the costumes,” Mr Kelly said. Their food was also taken.
Over Christmas the same pair staged a nine-day protest in minus temperatures on the roof of a radio station in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In a statement, RF4J called upon the church to “no longer turn a blind eye or remain silent” on the issue of family.
“The fifth commandment asks us to promise to honour thy father and thy mother,” the group said. But “the government continues to devalue fatherhood” while churches “sit back and does little”.
Splinter group
RF4J is a splinter group of the mainstream Fathers4Justice campaign, which disbanded after reports of a foiled plot to kidnap Prime Minister Tony Blair’s five-year-old son Leo.
The campaign, which said none of its members were involved in any kidnap plot, had carried out several daring stunts to highlight their cause in recent years.
One protestor, dressed as Batman, spent five hours on a balcony at Buckingham Palace, while another threw purple flower bombs at Mr Blair in the House of Commons.
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April 13, 2006
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its a crazy system and it can make you crazy … idiots are making us all look ridiculous.
Crazy it is, and not just in Canada it seems.
Dougie
Guelph, Canada
Ya, I agree, the seriousness and the power of what we’re trying to accomplish gets attenuated and miscontstrued by doing crazy media stunts or making too radical statements. But, these poor guys haven’t seen their kids in 4 and 5 years. I haven’t seen my child in 5 months and it’s driving me nuts and tearing me apart. I can imagine the point of desperation that these men are at after going that long without seeing their kids.
I wish I knew more about this one. I’ve been to a number of weblogs today browsing for tips, a good many sites I’ve went to I have found the information area has turned into a slanging match. It isn’t really really the sort of thing young girls talk about, so i had been hoping someone here could really help out?