Airport security officers carried the woman away by the feet and arms as she protested her removal.
She later identified herself as Brenda Lee, a writer for the Georgia Informer in Macon and said she has White House press credentials. The newspaper’s Web site says it is a monthly publication, and a Brenda Lee column is posted on it.
Calls to the newspaper and the White House press office were not immediately returned.
Lee said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press that she wanted to hand Obama a letter urging him “to take a stand for traditional marriage.”
She said she asked a Secret Service agent to give the president her letter, but he refused and referred her to a White House staffer. Lee said she refused to give the staffer the letter.
“I said, ‘I’ll take my chances if (the president) comes by here,'” said Lee, who identified herself as a Roman Catholic priestess who lives in Anaheim, Calif. “He became annoyed that I wouldn’t give him the letter.”
Lee, who was wearing what she described as a cassock, said she protested when she was asked to leave.
A women priest in a cassock defending marriage? I remember joking asking once where are the women traddy priests and how come only dissidents seemed to be called? Oh dear, be careful what you joke about.
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That’s my kind of gal! You know, if they just wore cassocks and fiddlebacks, I doubt the “old geezers in Rome” would be as vehemently opposed to their ordination 🙂
A personal friend, from Anaheim, who knows her, shrugs it off as “that nutcake”.
Watch out for her at the March for Life!
…should I feel guilty for thinking it would be cool to date a traddy priestess my age?
A women priest in a cassock defending marriage?
Blind pigs, truffles, stopped clocks and all that…