Easter Protesters Sentenced, Lectured

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Aug 30, 2008 6:30PM

The group of anti-war protesters who pulled one of the stupidest moves of the year by disrupting the Easter Sunday service at Holy Name Cathedral were sentenced on Friday. Each was sentenced to: one year probation, 30 days of community service, and ordered to pay $2,600 in restitution. The group also denied they had anything to do with Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War who had originally claimed responsibility. Cook County Judge James B. Linn, who sentenced the group, also had some choice words for the protesters who had shouted and sprayed the congregation with fake blood, calling them "very naive," and then adding:

I find it ironic that in this case that the target you picked out, the people you were disturbing on perhaps their holiest day, trying to express their beliefs, literally trying to communicate with God -- I would guess that the majority of those people were probably of the same mind as you about the Iraq war.