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1. Erik Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 12:17 pm

   “Oh Dearest Lord -
   Please keep the mud I just knelt in off this dress in case more journalists want to take a picture of me praying. I ask in Jesus’ name.
   Amen.”

   The woman’s name is Mary Porta - searching the web for her name + schiavo comes uf with her praying before cameras on about 6 different occasions.

2. Peregrinato Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 1:14 pm

   Now see. First my response is that people should be allowed open expression of faith without being mocked. I will actually commend someone who has the guts to drop to their knees in prayer, in public, and not be so damn stoic.

   But now that Erik points out that this women is far from media shy, all I can do is think of Matthew 6:5–

   “And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.”

   ah well.

3. Sean Hurley Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 2:07 pm

   Here’s a chance for some real synergy: send her photo to Bill Frist and maybe he’ll diagnose her medical condition!

   She seems to be crying for help… but then, I don’t want to put words in her mouth.

4. Andy Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 2:23 pm

   Day by day… (day by day - ayee ayee ay)
   O dear lord, 3 things I pray… (3 things I pray-eeyay).

   Everybody’s favorite Jesusfreak musical, Godspell.

5. dante woo / blog \ Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 3:09 pm

   one shot might get three of them

   If I were terminal but still able to lift my hands, and people like these were outside, my last…

6. Aaron Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 6:31 pm

   There’s ALWAYS time for charades.

7. Tim Who? Says:
   March 28th, 2005 at 7:49 pm

   Lord have mercy (is the photographer here?)
   Help me Jesus (is he looking this way?)
   Halleluiah (did he take a picture?)
   Falls to her knees and yells LORD HAVE MERCY (click)

   As the photographer moves on she smiles to herself because she knows Randall Terry promised her $500 for every picture or her praying that gets published and this gig is her best yet, she’s already made over $2,000

8. Terrance Says:
   March 29th, 2005 at 6:02 am

   Here’s the latest on this and other such photos. Via Atrios, I’m learning that the right wingers are getting a bit nervous about photos of the Schiavo protestors. They’re worried that the media is “mocking” the protestors.

   KURTZ: Well, some of them are now being resurrected by newspapers to show that this has happened before.

   Michelle Cottle, has the press ridiculed, or maybe I should say marginalized, religious people who believed the Terri Schiavo must be kept alive as a matter of Christian morality?

   MICHELLE COTTLE, THE NEW REPUBLIC EDITOR: Well, it’s not that they get out there and make fun of them. It’s just you come with a ready-made kind of visual here. You have people on the streets praying. They’re (UNINTELLIGIBLE), you have very dramatic and even melodramatic protests and things like this.

   These people are very easy to kind of just poke fun at without even saying anything. You just kind of show these people. And the majority of Americans who don’t get out there and do this kind of, you know, really dramatic displays feel a little bit uncomfortable on that level.

   Hey, these folks get out there and put on a show, and then people get bothered when someone points a camera at them? It’s gotta say something when just looking at the photos, without commentary, makes people wonder about these protestors. (And, yes, I’m aware that the same could be said about news reports and photos from gay pride parades.)

   I have to admit, though, poking fun at them is a bit too easy. They’ve taken almost all the fun out of it.