At first that seemed to work. So it was not until, at least for me, until probably May of 1997 when I began to really hear from parents about what was happening to their families because of this. Children that were crying about going to church. We began to think that adults can ignore a situation like this but perhaps children don't have the ability to look away and to sort out, you know, real difficult issues. This kind of scene plays out every time the picketers are at church.
Parents try to shield their children from the graphic images on the signs.
Here they made a great big deal to the city council that they don't want their children seeing these signs. They can drive around, park in the parking lot on Ryan Street and as it has been in the last year, there's no aborted baby sign on Ryan. After the service we spoke with Steve Johnson, the man who you saw shielding his daughter from the picket signs. During the interview he heard a noise. Now that's the kind of thing that I'm talking about.