PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Ivey DeJesus | idejesus@pennlive.com
Lobbying to raise awareness for or against efforts to reform Pennsylvania’s child sex crime laws is turning decidedly public: The side against reform is looking for extras for a commercial. The side calling for reform is looking for participants for a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Both sides are keeping their eyes on the Pennsylvania Senate, which is poised to next month take up legislation that would reform the state’s statute of limitations.
On Friday, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, along with other supporting groups, will hold an informational event at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood on the “potential risks associated” with House Bill 1947, which garnered the overwhelming majority of the House last month.
The events features a pubic briefing on the issue, a prayer session and the production of a commercial intended, according to a press release out of the archdiocese’s Office for the New Evangelization, to “educate the public on the severity of this issue and the need to act.”
The press release calls out for anyone interested in being an extra in the commercial to participate. “We need your help to film a short group scene representing the Catholic Church alive in the Archdioceses of Philadelphia,” it reads.
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