Monthly Archives: October 2007

WORKPLACE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION THREATENED

By |2013-05-23T17:28:49-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House is slated to vote on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act sometime this fall (hearings on the bill were held beginning September 5). The bill would prohibit workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Included in the latest version is a narrowing of the exemption typically afforded religious institutions. [...]

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NEWSPAPERS SELF-CENSOR MUSLIM CARTOONS

By |2013-05-23T17:32:06-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

At least two dozen newspapers refused to run a cartoon on August 26 (the first of a two-part series) because it might have offended Muslims; more newspapers censored the September 2 installment. The cartoon strip that was slated to run on August 26, Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," contained a sexually suggestive panel and poked fun at radical [...]

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LOUISIANA DEMS GET IN THE GUTTER: ATTEMPT TO SMEAR CATHOLIC POL

By |2013-05-23T17:36:06-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

A television ad put out in August by the Louisiana Democratic Party accused Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bobby Jindal of smearing Protestants; Jindal is Catholic. The ad said Jindal "insulted thousands of Louisiana Protestants. He has referred to Protestant religions as scandalous, depraved, selfish and heretical." To drive the point home, the ad flashed the following words [...]

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CATHOLIC JUDGE BASHED BY DUI LAWYER

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

In August, Florida attorney Loring Spolter formally petitioned the U.S. District Court seeking the recusal of U.S. District Judge William Zloch on the grounds that the judge exercises religious bias. If anyone wants to see anti-Catholicism in action, keep an eye on Loring Spolter—the man is still at large. Ironically, Spolter's affidavit not only failed to [...]

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LYING ABOUT THE SCANDAL

By |2013-05-23T17:40:46-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

The evidence is unmistakable: 81 percent of the victims of priestly sexual abuse were male, the majority of whom were postpubescent. Since 100 percent of the victimizers were male, this scandal mostly involved homosexuality, not pedophilia. Yet the cultural elites refuse to deal with reality, and have indeed waged an unprecedented cover-up. Two items in the [...]

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HILLARY HAS IT BOTH WAYS

By |2013-05-23T17:41:42-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

New York senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was asked last month about Catholic hospitals that do not wish to provide women with emergency contraception, which in some cases can act as an abortifacient.  According to the Associated Press, Senator Clinton replied that "conscience clauses" are appropriate in some situations, but "if there is a justifiable [...]

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NEWSWEEK CRACKS UP

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Send in the straightjackets—Newsweek has cracked up. Of all the stories in the entire world to cover, Newsweek's website flagged as its "Top Story" on September 13 an insane piece about a woman (complete with photo) who thinks she is an ordained Catholic priest. They found this "woman priest" in Missouri, though had Newsweek reporter Karen Springen walked into the nearest [...]

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UVA’S DOUBLE STANDARD

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Managers of a student newspaper at the University of Virginia, the Cavalier Daily, forced a staff cartoonist, Grant Woolard, to resign last month. This action stemmed from a drawing done by  Woolard. According to the Washington Post, the cartoon depicted "nine darkened figures with bald, enlarged heads, dressed only in loincloths, fighting each other over a tree branch, [...]

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“MADtv” WON’T GIVE UP

By |2013-05-23T17:44:45-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

On September 15, Fox's "MADtv" kicked off its 13th season by featuring a series of some of the show's past comedy skits. The new season opener, hosted by raunchy talk-show star Jerry Springer, was the first of a four-part "Best of MADtv" series. Included in the program's trip down memory lane was one of several past [...]

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CRUDE BILLBOARD PROMOTES ABORTION

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Catalyst, Features|Tags: |

Manhattan Mini Storage, owned by Edison Properties, placed a billboard on Manhattan's West Side Highway in August that showed a large wire hanger with the inscription, "Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose." New Yorkers have become accustomed to Manhattan Mini Storage posting billboards that bash the Bush Administration, but by [...]

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