I agree, that police and clergy showing up to an anti-abortion rally might not be a good look for de-escalation of the situation. I do think that social workers might be a better idea. They should have all of the knowledge of local resources that the local pastors do plus more.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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