by Dinesh D'Souza (Catalyst, 1/2007) This article is adapted from Dinesh D'Souza's new book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, just published by Doubleday. Is Osama Bin Laden right when he alleges that America is a pagan society, the "leading power of the unbelievers"? Bin Laden and the Islamic radicals point [...]
What do feminists think of Dakota Fanning’s child rape scene in “Hounddog?” As of today, there has been only one reply. Carol Lloyd of Salon.com wrote on January 11, “My impulse is not to worry about little Dakota’s future mental health and not to see the movie.” On January 18, Lloyd called herself “an uncompromising Western [...]
Today's New York Times includes an op-ed piece titled "A Middle Ground for Stem Cells." The author, Yuval Levin, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and former executive director of the President's Council on Bioethics, had this to say: It is a simple and uncontroversial biological fact that a human life begins when [...]
Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why he wants a federal investigation of the upcoming movie, “Hounddog,” to see if federal child pornography laws were violated during the shootings: “The Sundance Film Festival opens today, and on January 22 a film starring 12-year-old actress Dakota Fanning will debut. The movie, ‘Hounddog,’ is described in the current [...]
Yesterday evening, the 90-minute documentary “Hand of God” aired on the PBS public affairs series “Frontline.” In the piece, filmmaker Joe Cultrera explores the situation surrounding his brother being abused by a priest 30 years ago. The Catholic League does not take issue with the documentary's theme: honest investigations into what led to and contributed to [...]
On December 20, Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson wrote, “John Paul also sought to build his church in nations of the developing world where traditional morality and bigotry, most especially on matters sexual, were in greater supply than in secular Europe and the increasingly egalitarian United States, and more in sync with the Catholic Church’s inimitable [...]
Last week, Nebraska State Senator Lowen Kruse introduced a bill (LB 261) to the state’s unicameral legislature that seeks to curb underage drinking by striking from current law provisions that allow minors to consume alcohol in their own homes or at places of worship during religious rites. In response to protests from religious leaders of various [...]
From the Associated Press (1-10-07): The Department of Veterans Affairs' increasing use of religion in treating ailing veterans does not violate the separation of church and state, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge John Shabaz dismissed a lawsuit by the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation and defended the agency's practices in his decision Monday, [...]
From the Los Angeles Times (1-11-07): Three newly elected school board members in southern Orange County want to rename the two-week winter vacation the "Christmas" recess... Deborah Lauter, national civil rights director for the Anti-Defamation League, said she was dismayed by the trend, which she says values Christianity above other religions. "Public schools should seek to [...]
“The Democratic-controlled House Thursday passed a bill bolstering embryonic stem cell research that advocates say shows promise for numerous medical cures,” says a story by the Associated Press. Here’s the position of the Catholic League as expressed by president Bill Donohue: “In 1993, within 48 hours of being sworn in as president of the United States, [...]
