1999 – January Releases

AMERICAN ATHEISTS SLAM POPE

By |2012-10-22T17:18:30-04:00January 22nd, 1999|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: , |

American Atheists has announced that on January 27 it will greet Pope John Paul II with a protest when he is in St. Louis. Saying that the pope is a "very real threat" to separation between church and state, American Atheists commented that "They [Catholics] want non-adherents to support their schools, they advocate and promote prejudice [...]

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ELIOT SPITZER: PRO-CATHOLIC OR ANTI-CATHOLIC?

By |2012-10-18T18:53:59-04:00January 22nd, 1999|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

In September, 1998, Eliot Spitzer, then a candidate for New York State Attorney General, held a press conference in front of a Catholic hospital in Buffalo to protest a decision by Independent Health that would exclude the area’s Catholic hospitals from its coverage. Standing in front of Mercy Hospital, Spitzer said that "To simply exclude the [...]

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JAMES HORMEL: NOTHING HAS CHANGED

By |2017-03-20T17:57:58-04:00January 13th, 1999|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Ignoring James Hormel’s demonstrated insensitivity to Catholics, President Clinton has resubmitted his nomination of Mr. Hormel as United States Ambassador to Luxembourg. This nomination is no more acceptable now than it was a year ago. During the 1996 San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Transgender Pride Parade, Mr. Hormel was on the air with commentators for KOFY-TV when [...]

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