Why Is There A Pro-Life Tent On Vans Warped Tour?
Vans Warped Tour, which has been going strong since 1995, kicked off this summer’s caravan in late June and will continue through August, but it looks like there’s a brand new vendor on tour with the traveling emo carnival this year–Rock For Life, a Virginia-based pro-life organization.
We asked #vanswarpedtour #stpetersburg attendees #whenshouldrightsbegin In #orlando today help us continue on! pic.twitter.com/8TH7GgDFe3
— Rock For Life (@rockforlife) July 2, 2016
According to a blog post from back in May, the organization will be joining Warped Tour on 41 tour dates and first synced up with them on 6/24 in Dallas, Texas. As Breitbart reports, the organization will also appear at 17 other Christian music festivals this summer, but VWT is the only secular organization that has agreed to bring them on.
Warped Tour themselves have not listed Rock For Life on their official sponsors page, and the group is a project of Students for Life of America (SFLA), which is a non-profit, so they are probably on the tour as a vendor. Warped Tour does not provide a full list of vendors that are on tour with them on their website. However, Rock For Life is also not listed on their provided non-profit organization page. I’ve reached out to Warped Tour for comment on their decision to include this organization–which has chosen a fetus playing a guitar as their logo (above) and routinely uses the phrase “All Lives Matter”–in their lineup this year.
We asked #vanswarpedtour #stpetersburg attendees #whenshouldrightsbegin In #orlando today help us continue on! pic.twitter.com/8TH7GgDFe3
— Rock For Life (@rockforlife) July 2, 2016