Outside the Mission, Protesters Congregate

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 18, 1987| Author: Cynthia Gorney | Copyright information

In the shadow of Mission Dolores, with police helicopters circling overhead and uniformed officers lined up behind the metal barricades, the nonadmirers gathered here this afternoon.

Some wore mitres made of newspaper and some wore traditional Roman Catholic robes, except that the person in a nun's habit was a man and the person in a cardinal's outfit was a woman. She appeared to be pregnant.

"This man is morally bankrupt," said the man in the nun's habit, who was speaking in...

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