Two members of the Pro-Life Action League of Chicago were removed from the lobby of DeBartolo Hall by Notre Dame Security/Police Tuesday night for distributing fliers to people about to enter a performance of the "Vagina Monologues."

Joe Scheidler, a 1950 Notre Dame alumnus and his companion, Monica Miller drove from Chicago despite snowstorms to represent a group of "concerned Catholics [who believe] the Vagina Monologues promotes a false view of womanhood and human sexuality, " according to their press release.

Scheidler and Miller attempted to dispense two fliers to hundreds of people waiting to be admitted to the Monologues performance in Room 101 DeBartolo Hall. One flier featured the word "Integrity" and described how they believe the Monologues is steeped in vile sexual language, denigrates heterosexual love and marriage and is verbal pornography that donates its proceeds to pro-abortion groups.

The other flier read, "Is THIS What You Want?" beneath a picture of the Golden Dome with the Virgin Mary erased from the Dome's peak.

"It's unthinkable to have something like this at an institution that claims to be Catholic," said Scheidler, the uncle of David Scheidler, former rector of St. Edward's Hall. "It's dirty. It's promoting lesbianism, masturbation and pedophilia." Miller pleaded with ticket holders to "stop wasting the money you've spent on a Catholic education" as she was escorted out of the building.

"[The Monologues] degrade human dignity," Miller said. "I don't care how good the cause is, this is verbal pornography. It denigrates everything a Catholic university should stand for."

Scheidler and Miller also contacted members of the Knights of Columbus, including Grand Knight and Notre Dame senior Nathaniel Hannan to request support. Hannan and fellow Knights of Columbus member, Kevin Haley, a Notre Dame junior, prayed the Rosary while Scheidler and Miller distributed fliers.

"We consider this equivalent to a play sponsored by the Arian nation at a Jewish university," Hannan said. Hannan has read the Monologues script four times and opposes the play as a violation of the core teachings of the Catholic Church, he said. Hannan also denied rumors that the Knights of Columbus had purchased tickets to the Monologues in an attempt to keep people from viewing the production. However, the Knights of Columbus is considering future programming, such as public speakers to combat the Monologues message.

"I saw the show in London and feel like [these protesters] are distorting a lot of what is in it," said Becky Luckett, a Notre Dame junior who saw the show again Tuesday.

"It's really funny, but it's also very serious and it causes you to think about a lot of things women are afraid, or at least have been taught not to think about." Kerry Walsh, director of the Monologues, opened the show with a reference to Scheidler and Miller's flier.

"Is this what you want for Notre Dame? Hell yeah," she said to a packed audience. Walsh's "V-Day" programming continues through Wednesday with a Talk-Back session from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. in LaFortune's Montgomery Theater.

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