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We knew it was going to be a tense event long before the day arrived but a conversation that occurred as the flag display was forcibly being destroyed made it all worthwhile. Sharon Wright is the president of the Powell River Pro-Life Society and was instrumental in getting everything ready for the flag display. A number of months ago they had requested an event permit to host the flag display in the Loggers Memorial Bowl at Willingdon Beach. The process required them to appear before City Council and explain the specifics of the event. Soon after their presentation to Council the event was approved, the planning started, and it all culminated in a peaceful demonstration on Saturday, June 23rd.<\/p>\n

Peaceful until a number of malicious counter-protesters began violently ripped out the flags. As one commenter said on social media, \u201cAnyone else see the irony of flags that represent unborn children being torn out of the ground? Not the brightest counter demonstration.\u201d It should be noted that the aggressive actions of a few were not reflective of the rest of the pro-abortion supporters on hand that day. Most of them were respectful, and a number of quality conversations took place. Nevertheless, due to the aggressive nature of those ripping out the flags many of those who were taking a stand for pre-born human rights by volunteering at the flag display were quite distraught and visibly shaken.<\/p>\n

One of the volunteers moved to tears was Sharon Wright. She walked to the fringes of the display to compose herself and what happened next was nothing short of divine intervention \u2013 just the conversation that Sharon needed to experience. We asked her to share her conversation with us on Facebook Live.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nTranscript:<\/em>\u00a0A woman and her grandson were pulling up the flags, and we didn\u2019t want the protesters pulling up the flags, so I went up to her and I said, \u201cI don\u2019t even know if you\u2019re one of us or one of them,\u201d and she said, \u201cOh, I\u2019m just one of them but my grandson wanted to pull up the flags.\u201d And I said, \u201cOh, that\u2019s fine.\u201d They were very nice and had smiles, and she came up afterwards and she says, \u201cCan I have a card?\u201d and then she said to me, \u201cI wasn\u2019t one of you but I am now. Just by your demeanour and your kindness\u2026I just want to thank you for how you reacted to the situation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nIf you want to see the rest of the Facebook Live and the despicable actions of the protestors who attempted to interrupt our video click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/weneedaLAW\/videos\/1691315534320968\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe contrast between those taking a stand in support of pre-born human rights and those in favour of their continued destruction was apparent to everyone who walked by the display that day. The visible hatred, also modeled to the many children who were present, was responded to with love, compassion, and a deep sense of caring for the neighbour \u2013 virtues that we should all aspire to.<\/p>\nThe aborting of 100,000 pre-born children every year in Canada makes it necessary to do something; to stand up for their rights. We will not, indeed we cannot back down in the face of adversity, no matter how much hate comes our way. As Winston Churchill once said, \u201cYou have enemies? Good. That means you\u2019ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.\u201d To Sharon and the Powell River Pro-Life Society, thank you for continuing to stand up for all members of your community, both born and pre-born!<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2852\" src=\"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flag-display-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flag-display.png 1024w, https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flag-display-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flag-display-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flag-display-1000x500.png 1000w, https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/flag-display-700x350.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We knew it was going to be a tense event long before the day arrived but a conversation that occurred as the flag display was forcibly being destroyed made it all worthwhile. Sharon Wright is the president of the Powell River Pro-Life Society and was instrumental in getting everything ready for the flag display. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3014,"featured_media":2851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[281,283,284],"tags":[310,768,200,769,770],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2843"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2843\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.weneedalaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}