Last night's episode of the Fox program, "Glee," featured the character Finn as a Catholic priest, and Rachel as a nun (in provocative attire). They were shown singing "With You I'm Born Again." Catholic League president Bill Donohue noticed what's going on: Last week, "Glee" dealt with the subject of religion, though only Christianity was mocked, [...]
Yesterday, Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent a letter to the executive editors of the nation's top newspapers, and to the deans of the nation's top schools of journalism, drawing their attention to the decision by the Washington Post not to run an inoffensive cartoon by Wiley Miller in Sunday's edition. Because the "Non Sequitur" cartoon [...]
The decision by editors at the Washington Post not to run a cartoon that mentioned, but did not depict, Muhammad, is the subject of today's news release by Catholic League president Bill Donohue: On October 8, I noted how Universal decided to nix the words, "electric cars are so gay," from the trailer of "The Dilemma." [...]
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In the trailer to a Universal movie, "The Dilemma," there is a scene where actor Vince Vaughn's character says, "Ladies and Gentlemen, electric cars are so gay." After some complaints, Universal has decided to pull the trailer and may delete this scene altogether from the film. Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds as follows: Earlier today [...]
The movie "Secretariat" is the subject of Catholic League president Bill Donohue's news release: Kudos to movie critic Roger Ebert, as well as to John Nolte at Breitbart.com, for lampooning Salon.com film reviewer Andrew O'Hehir's feverish take on "Secretariat." It's not just the movie's Christian overtones that upset O'Hehir, it's the alleged racism—even Nazi-driven—aspects of this [...]
There have been many reports this week about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a case involving the Westboro Baptist Church. In 2006, members of the church led an obscene demonstration outside a Catholic church where a funeral service for a slain Marine took place. The question before the court is whether this protest is [...]
A stunning example of the way dissident Catholics think was recently brought to our attention. Last August, Ian Brennan, co-creator of the Fox program, "Glee," was honored by Catholics in Media Associates; this is the same group that liked the show which the Catholic League killed in the 1990s, "Nothing Sacred." Here is a selection of [...]
A Montana truck driver, Kathleen Folden, took a crowbar to the Plexiglass case housing artwork at Colorado's Loveland Museum which depicted a man performing oral sex on Jesus. Folden was arrested after she ripped the artwork to pieces. Commenting is Catholic League president Bill Donohue: Had the art depicted a man performing fellatio on Muhammad, the [...]
On last night's "Daily Show with Jon Stewart," atheist author Sam Harris said, "The Catholic Church is more concerned about preventing contraception than protecting child rape. It's more concerned about preventing gay marriage than genocide." Catholic League president Bill Donohue sounded off as follows: In his previous book, Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris criticized [...]
