A group of self-righteous cretin calling themselves “Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War” disrupted a Chicago Easter service in by screaming nonsense and squirting themselves and innocent bystanders with fake blood:

Chicago, IL. — Six anti-war protesters have been charged Sunday afternoon following an Easter service disruption at Holy Name Cathedral in the Loop Sunday morning.

Three men and three women were arrested at the Holy Name Cathedral at 735 N. State St. about 11:40 a.m., according to police News Affairs Officer Marcel Bright.

The men arrested were 21-year-old Donte D. Smith, 22-year-old Ephran Ramirez, Jr., and 25-year-old Ryane J. Ziemba, according to police News Affairs.

The women arrested were 18-year-old Mercedes Phinaih, 25-year-old Regan Maher and 20-year-old Angela Haban.

All six protesters have been charged with two counts of felony criminal damage to property and two counts of simple battery.

They were arrested during Easter services presided over by Cardinal Francis George, which began at 11 a.m. Due to repairs being made in the cathedral, services were held in the cathedral auditorium.

The anti-war group “Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War” has claimed responsibility for the protest.

The group sat through the 11 a.m. mass until Cardinal George reached the homily. A few seconds into the main holiday message, the protesters rose from their seats, turned to address the thousands of parishioners in the auditorium and talked about the continuing death of both Iraqis and Americans in Iraq, according to a release from HammerHard, a non-profit activist group.

The protesters then lied down in the aisles and discharged packets of fake blood that covered them in red. Ushers, along with some Chicago police officers who were stationed in the lobby to help with traffic control, rushed in to remove the protesters, the release said.

The protesters also denounced the January 7 meeting in Chicago between Cardinal George, Mayor Richard Daley, and President George W. Bush.

Yes, how dare elected officials and notable clergyman meet with the President? Why, it’s almost as if people don’t know that we should be following the dictates of armchair revolutionaries and parent supported radicals.

The Chicago Tribune has a more detailed description of the mayhem:

Six protesters disrupted the beginning of Cardinal Francis George’s homily to shout their opposition to the Iraq war. The demonstrators—who called themselves Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War, despite their male and female membership—squirted fake blood on themselves and nearby worshipers as security guards tried to usher them from the parish’s auditorium, where mass is being said during repairs on the downtown Chicago cathedral.

The syrupy red substance—which one protester later described as “stage blood”—initially drew horrified gasps and a few shrieks from the 600 worshipers at the mass. The shock, however, quickly gave way to anger as people booed the demonstrators while they were being removed from the hall.

Several churchgoers then rushed to the bathroom to wash off the sticky liquid. Others cried openly. A few livid parents followed the protesters into the lobby and berated them for scaring children at mass.

“Are you happy with yourselves?” Mike Wainscott of Chicago shouted at the demonstrators as they were being handcuffed by police. “There were kids in there. You scared little kids with your selfish act. Are you happy now?”

The protesters were all charged with felony criminal defacement of property and two counts of simple battery for defacing church property and the worshipers’ clothes with the fake blood.

The Trib also has unedited video on their site, including the perpetrators smirking at the cameras as they’re led off to jail.

In my youth, church desecrations were, shall we say, philosophically motivated and frankly a bit passé even then. However, one could at least grudgingly respect the devil worshipers who burned so many churches in Europe; they were pious if misguided, as faithful to evil as you and I might be to good.

The boorish progeny of an effete and nihilistic “peace” movement, the co-ed members of Catholic School Girls Against the War have no real ax to grind with Catholics or any other Christians however, but chose to desecrate a church on a whim, and mainly because they knew that the Christians wouldn’t kill them.

These are the spoiled children of the Nouveau Riche who, with too much time on their hands and too little respect for those religious Americans their parents and college professors hate so much, thought desecrating the holy sanctum of Chicago Catholics on the most important day of the year was simply good, clean fun.

Unsurprisingly, C.S.A.W. was an endorser (and participant) of this March 19 A.N.S.W.E.R. chaos. No doubt this group is yet another World Worker’s Party front group, which explains the real motive for their outlandishly hateful behavior.

Even Democratic Underground is speaking out against this depravity. Well, about 60% is, the other 40% of the comments on their post support desecrating mass. I know, it’s a shock.

The group are members The Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice and are described on the site this way:

Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War is a humorous, political street threatre group composed of college students and young adults. The group was formed in October of 2006 and meets twice per month.

I’d take issue with the “adults” part. But I guess you just don’t get better “humorous, political street theatre” than desecrating a church and ruining the Easter celebrations of unsuspecting Christians. Since they have a contact email why not tell them how funny you think the whole affair was?

Surprise! They look exactly like you’d expect:

Above is Angela Haban (who is clearly high) Mercedes Phinaih and Regan Maher. Maher is 25 years old. Yes, 25 and she’s getting arrested with a teenager and a stoner. The future’s looking bright Regan!

Here are the “men”:

You’re looking at Ryne Ziemba, Donte Smith, and Ephran Ramirez Jr. Ryne is, like Regan, 25 and too old to be carrying on like this. I blame their parents.

The funny thing about this story is that were I to do something similar to a Mosque (many of whom have leaders who have met with the President or various officials) the above prigs would shake their head ruefully and decry my bad taste and lack of tolerance. But if anyone calls them on their anti-Catholic bigotry they’ll answer with a derisive laugh and one of those dreadful quotes from Marx that every loser supported by their rich parents throws around these days.

Update: Via Gateway Pundit, Donte Smith served time in a federal prison for another ill conceived protest. The bonds were set high enough to give these kids a couple of days to think about their lives (a good thing) but since three months in the federal pen didn’t put a dent in Donte’s hard head I’m not hopeful.

The allies of the group, which included the vile and most likely murderous International Solidarity Movement, are referring to the group as the “Holy Name 6” and are trying to raise money for their bail.