Five years ago this morning one of the most unique ecumenical services in Indiana history took place at 827 Webster Street.  The property had just been redeemed from the abortion industry — Susan Hill in particular, who had controlled it for 28 years since personally opening Fort Wayne’s first abortion clinic in 1978.  (She has since gone to meet her Maker, more here).

May 19, 2007 was the initial launch of the ArchAngel Institute, which would then be founded as an Indiana corporation a few weeks later.

The event opened and closed with Fort Wayne Police Department bagpipers filling Salon Plaza (the adjacent park) with  haunting, sacred music.

Followed by Father David Meinzen (then an Eastern Orthodox priest) and Deacon Mike Myers with an Orthodox  exorcism.

Followed by Father George Gabet with a traditional Roman Catholic blessing and casting out of Evil.

Followed by Frank Avila with a memorial to his dear wife Phyllis (here) and those who stood against the abortion industry in the early years of resistance in the Fort.

Followed by Lynn Wegmann’s reading from Luther’s Small Catechism.

Followed by Evangelical Pastor Wendell Brane’s dedication of the building.

Ending with more bagpipes from the very organization that used to arrest pro-lifers in front of the very building that was redeemed to serve as the headquarters of The ArchAngel Institute.

Kevin Brown reported that as the pipers closed the ceremony two doves flew down Webster Street, circled in front of the building, and flew off.  It brought tears to his eyes.

The events were not without controversy.  The Left, both in Kansas and Indiana and even nationwide, went apoplectic over the thought that anyone would think an exorcism was necessary after an abortionist left the building.  (We estimate 24,000 abortions over 28 years at the location.)  The Leftists offended would include Dr. Elizabeth Bowman, the outspoken pro-gay rights,  pro-abortion psychiatrist who would later be assigned by me by the Supreme Court of Indiana.  (Click here and here for more on Dr. Bowman’s views on exorcism.  The government could not have located a psychiatrist more biased against everything that I have ever stood for in her.)  Here, by comparison, is the report on me (Brown) by a Board certified (non-government-agent-hand-picked, professionally-oriented (rather than agenda-driven) and statutorily-briefed (rather than anti-Brown briefed)  psychiatrist). (In defense of Dr. Bowman, it appears that the government social workers failed to brief her on the actual law to be used during her evaluation — not that the law matters to the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program, comrades.)   Note that Dr. Flueckiger, unlike Dr. Bowman (but like every other professional mental health agent or agency who reviewed me) found no label to attach to my toe, actually diagnosed me as having no mental illness.  (But then they did not want the ArchAngel project shot down first and foremost.)  The Left was unified, solidarity ensured, in the goal of seeing this project fail from before it even started — and even more zealous toward that end once the ArchAngel Institute was publicly announced.

And then there is the Christian Right.

Pre-arranged Catholic media abandoned the dedication event before it happened (due to anticipated controversy from a whispering campaign noted in third paragraph of the Blee letter posted  here), I was informed the diocese had been offended by the event (right after it happened, but that was cleared up later and we received the Bishop’s full blessing (here)), and years later I learned that the largest pro-life organization in NorthEast Indiana was quite upset about the very launch of the ArchAngel Institute, even labeling the Institute an “enemy,” a group adverse to forward pro-life progress.  (Or is it actually Wilsonian-style progressivism that the neo-conservative advances?) (In all fairness, statements like this are considered the work of the enemy by those loyal to the National Right to Life lobbyist association.)

Oh, and I like to think that Saturday, May 19, 2007  ruined Ole Slew foot’s weekend as well.

I know it had quite an impact upon me.  One that keeps on giving.  It was starting off on the wrong foot on Webster Street, if Dale Carnegie was to be consulted, anyway.  (He was not.)

Still, it was the right thing to do.  I do not regret it, it simply had to be done.  (I  had asked the RCC for an exorcism, was told buildings were not exorcised, only people.  The Orthodox priest then called me when he heard of  the planned dedication service and stated that I simply had to start with an exorcism. Thus we did, gladly.  Incense, vestments, icons — Father Meinzen and Deacon Myers rendered  it a unique, historic and beautiful event.)

Details are posted in the May 2007 archives, here.

p.s. Thanks to John and Berenice Brown and Max and Linda Zimmerman for much help on the May 19, 2007 event.  Especially John and Bernie for buying the building!  And especially to Linda for coordinating the police pipers and Max and Linda for getting the event on video.  Someday I will have to find someone to help me make the transition to You Tube so I can post that fine video of this unique event.  (Hint, hint, anyone out there wanting to help with some You Tube programming as part and parcel of the sinking of this Titanic?  Short term commitments are the norm for us now!)

Having determined that the metaphorical bilge pumps were failing and that thus a metaphorical Davie Jones’ locker was close at hand for this metaphorical Titanic, I determined it best to press the Diocese for a statement that could be posted in this venue, a kind of wreath in the sea if you will.

It is presented against the hope that future ships hitting the hard ice like I did will enjoy the full and unreserved support of the Church — before the pumps give out.

Roger Waters seems highly appropriate in this late hour for the ArchAngel Institute. Dedicated to George Ulrich Klopfer and his highly placed defenders in the Indiana judiciary, that would be the governmental-abortion industry complex, aka the promoters of the culture of death ….

The ArchAngel Institute owes so many thanks to so many who have stood with us over our five year lifespan.  I tendered more than 80 letters of recommendation to the Indiana Board of Law Examiners in support of my moral fitness — did not matter.  Those letters were from managers, chief counsel, business associates, close friends, co-counsel, even opposing counsel!   A local board certified psychiatrist who spent two hours interviewing me adjudged me more than sufficiently sane to be an attorney (and that is not saying much, given some of the crazy attorneys I have met and read about in Indiana).

Soon after the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program remanded me to a psychologist who had seemingly been told I was a religious nutcase I realized that there was a plan to “get me” emanating out of the culture of death.  No surprise there, they had been trying to take me out since I stood up to the them via Operation Rescue back in 1989. And when I marched as they dehydrated Baby Doe to death in 1982 (and wrote much on that in the years following).  And for attending Regent University School of Law and studying the Christian roots of our legal order.  And for working as a constitutional litigator for the American Family Association for six years, taking on abortionists and the homosexual rights movement.  And for being one of Phil Kline’s right hand men as he took on George Tiller (who I stood up to in Kansas a decade before that) and Planned Parenthood (who sued me more than once).   And for launching the ArchAngel Institute from Susan Hill’s former abortion flagship in Indiana.  And for writing things like this incident to the Institute.

Yet despite this background in religiously-driven activism I had been licensed to practice law by Kansas in 1996, with no disciplinary action ever taken against me, had been admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 2001, many other federal bars and cleared by the National Board of Law Examiners and Missouri Supreme Court the year before I attempted to join Indiana’s bar.

And then came the gang in Indianapolis.  Soon after realizing that my religion was the focus of the Examiners I sought out legal counsel.  I consulted one of the best in the business in Indianapolis — He told me that my case was quite unique, my skills as an attorney more than adequate and my history impressive.  His advice — pay him a few thousand to represent me if I had it and could part with it, or go on my own and realize that he was not all that likely to do anything that I could not.  I did not have a few thousand, and if I had, I would have been loathe to part with it given his appraisal of the situation.

I then made contact with Fort Wayne attorney Tom Blee at the recommendation of Fred Everett of the Diocese of Fort Wayne/ South Bend.  Tom spent some time with me, looked over my filings, and become alarmed that the system was seeking to nail me to a cross rather than afford me due process.

Tom Blee thus sent this letter to Tim Sudrovech to warn him, and JLAP, that the Catholic Church was keeping an eye on my processing.  This letter ended up in my file with the Indiana Law Examiners — they could not have cared less about the warning issued therein ….

From the Church’s Magisterial catechism on social justice ….

381. Praying for rulers, which Saint Paul recommended even as he was being persecuted, implicitly indicates what political authority ought to guarantee: a calm and tranquil life led with piety and dignity (cf. 1 Tim 2:1-2). Christians must “be ready for any honest work” (Tit 3:1), showing “perfect courtesy towards all” (Tit 3:2), in the awareness that they are saved not by their own deeds but by God’s mercy. Without “the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, which he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour” (Tit 3:5-6), all people are “foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing [their] days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another” (Tit 3:3). We must not forget the miserable state of the human condition marred by sin, but redeemed by God’s love.

382. When human authority goes beyond the limits willed by God, it makes itself a deity and demands absolute submission; it becomes the Beast of the Apocalypse, an image of the power of the imperial persecutor “drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus” (Rev 17:6). The Beast is served by the “false prophet” (Rev 19:20), who, with beguiling signs, induces people to adore it. This vision is a prophetic indication of the snares used by Satan to rule men, stealing his way into their spirit with lies. But Christ is the Victorious Lamb who, down the course of human history, overcomes every power that would make it absolute. Before such a power, Saint John suggests the resistance of the martyrs; in this way, believers bear witness that corrupt and satanic power is defeated, because it no longer has any authority over them.

 
383. The Church proclaims that Christ, the conqueror of death, reigns over the universe that he himself has redeemed. His kingdom includes even the present times and will end only when everything is handed over to the Father and human history is brought to completion in the final judgment (cf. 1 Cor 15:20-28). Christ reveals to human authority, always tempted by the desire to dominate, its authentic and complete meaning as service. God is the one Father, and Christ the one Teacher, of all mankind, and all people are brothers and sisters. Sovereignty belongs to God. The Lord, however, “has not willed to reserve to himself all exercise of power. He entrusts to every creature the functions it is capable of performing, according to the capacities of its own nature. This mode of governance ought to be followed in social life. The way God acts in governing the world, which bears witness to such great regard for human freedom, should inspire the wisdom of those who govern human communities. They should behave as ministers of divine providence”.[773]

The biblical message provides endless inspiration for Christian reflection on political power, recalling that it comes from God and is an integral part of the order that he created. This order is perceived by the human conscience and, in social life, finds its fulfilment in the truth, justice, freedom and solidarity that bring peace.[774]

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Click on this link to read just what that means for you …. http://www.archangelinstitute.org/he-is-risen-indeed/

Aux. Bishop James Conley has known me (Bryan) since 1991.  He is one of my spiritual advisers and has been for 18 years now.  He explains our shared background in this clip which he prepared for our December 8 banquet, before he knew for certain that the federal litigation would be filed.  He prepared a similar — actually even  more glowing — recommendation as to my good moral character and fitness and sent it to the Indiana Board of Law Examiners last June.  Here it is. They ignored it.

… when they directly asked me, while I was under oath.   And they then used my compelled answer to deny me a law license.

 Read how the above applies to my case of law license denial right here (click) 

Click on pages to enlarge. Three pages from the official transcript followed by one page from the verified complaint alleging civil rights violations. Click on the final link below to read the entire civil rights complaint.