Public school calendars in New York's Monroe-Woodbury school district list two Jewish holidays, but no Christian holidays. In response to requests by Christian parents for equal representation, the local Times Herald-Record gave "Jeers" to "some parents with not enough to keep them busy." Bill Donohue responded to the paper with the letter below: Dear Letters Editor: No wonder [...]
September, 2007 Reviewed by William Donohue. Every now and then I read a book that makes me want to stand up and cheer. The latest entry is Who Really Caresby Arthur C. Brooks, professor of public administration at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. We've become e-mail "pen pals," and I'm happy to [...]
On August 10, Debbie Almontaser resigned as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy [KGIA], a New York City public school billed as an “Arabic-themed” institution. She was pressured to resign following her response to a T-shirt that read, “Intifada NYC.” Though the term “intifada” is widely understood today to mean a terrorist “uprising,” Almontaser said [...]
From today’s Jerusalem Post: "Orthodox teachers of Kabbala reacted with disdain Sunday to pop idol Madonna's Rosh Hashana visit in Israel, during which she took part in a study session of Judaism's most esoteric texts. "'It is a known fact in Kabbala that impurity and evil are inherently attracted to sanctity,' said a director of one of [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue spoke today regarding the controversy surrounding Kathy Griffin’s Emmy acceptance speech: “When Griffin roared ‘Suck it, Jesus!’ in front of her Tinseltown peers, she ‘drew laughs,’ according to the Hollywood Reporter. Does this not prove the point the Catholic League has long made about Hollywood’s palpable hostility to Christians? “New York magazine gave [...]
On September 15, raunchy talk-show host Jerry Springer will kick off the 13th season of Fox’s “MADtv” by introducing a series of some of the show’s past comedy skits. One such segment lampooned the Catholic priesthood’s sex abuse scandals. While most people would expect a program like “MADtv” to cause offense on a frequent basis, a [...]
Managers of a student newspaper at the University of Virginia, the Cavalier Daily, recently forced a staff cartoonist, Grant Woolard, to resign. This action stemmed from a controversy surrounding a drawing of Mr. Woolard’s that, according to the Washington Post, depicted “nine darkened figures with bald, enlarged heads, dressed only in loincloths, fighting each other over a tree [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued the following remarks today about Newsweek magazine: “Send in the straightjackets—Newsweek has cracked up. Of all the stories in the entire world to cover, Newsweek’s website is flagging as its ‘Top Story’ an insane piece about a woman (complete with photo) who thinks she is an ordained Catholic priest. They found her in Missouri, though [...]
On its website today, New York magazine gave Kathy Griffin “kudos” for unleashing a “joyfully blasphemous rant” upon receiving her Emmy award. Griffin’s words, “Suck it, Jesus, this is my God now” were so offensive and vulgar that most other news outlets won’t reprint them. Yet the Gotham publication goes so far as to gush, “Thank God we can [...]
Responding to complaints from the Catholic League, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has decided to censor the vulgar remarks that comedian Kathy Griffin made when receiving her Creative Arts Emmy for her show, “My Life on the D-List.” Last Saturday, Griffin, upon winning the award for Outstanding Reality Program, blurted out a scripted remark, [...]
