Monthly Archives: May 1998

Religious Expression in the Public Schools: Testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission

By |2017-03-20T17:58:19-04:00May 20th, 1998|Categories: Education, White Papers and Essays|

by William A. Donohue (5/20/1998) Testimony of William A. Donohue, Ph.D., President, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights before the United States Civil Rights Commission on May 20, 1998 during a Public Hearing on Schools and Religion. I very much appreciate the opportunity to testify today on the subject of schools and religion. As president of [...]

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FIEGER, KEVORKIAN’S LAWYER, UNFIT TO GOVERN

By |2017-03-20T17:58:19-04:00May 13th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Geoffrey Fieger, attorney to suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian, is running for governor in Michigan. Over the past few years, Fieger and his client—from whom he has never distanced himself—have not just disagreed with the Catholic Church’s teachings on life issues, they have attacked and disparaged Roman Catholicism. Consequently, the Catholic League believes that Fieger is ill-suited [...]

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PROTEST TO MOUNT OVER “GAY JESUS” PLAY

By |2012-10-18T19:15:57-04:00May 11th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Last week, Catholic League president William Donohue wrote to playwright Terrence McNally requesting that he delete some offensive references to Christ that appear in his script for "Corpus Christi"; the play, which is scheduled to open this fall in New York, features Christ having sex with the apostles. McNally has not replied and a news report [...]

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SICKNESS IN SEATTLE

By |2017-03-20T17:58:19-04:00May 8th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

On display in the window of Seattle’s Art/Not Terminal gallery are two obscene, blasphemous paintings. As described by Michelle Malkin in Tuesday’s Seattle Times, the first painting shows "a smiling papal figure standing between two nuns. Each nun has her hand on the head of a male figure who is kneeling in front of the papal figure’s [...]

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REQUEST MADE TO ALTER “GAY JESUS” SCRIPT

By |2012-10-18T19:15:58-04:00May 6th, 1998|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

This fall, the Manhattan Theatre Club is scheduled to produce a Terrence McNally play, "Corpus Christi," that makes reference to Jesus having sex with the twelve apostles. Last week, the Catholic League voiced its objections to the play and is now asking playwright McNally, winner of three Tonys, to alter the script. Below is the text [...]

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