2007 – October Releases

MILLER MAKES CONCESSIONS; BOYCOTT AND ANTI-MILLER PR CAMPAIGN END

By |2012-10-11T20:31:09-04:00October 31st, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explained today why the protest of the Miller Brewing Company has ended: “From the beginning of the Folsom Street Fair controversy, the position of the Catholic League has been that it was insufficient for the Miller Brewing Company to simply apologize for the misappropriation of its logo on an offensive Last [...]

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MILLER’S LATEST APOLOGY REJECTED

By |2012-10-11T20:31:11-04:00October 29th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on Miller’s apology of Oct. 26: “They either don’t get it or they think we’re stupid. Miller’s latest apology is nothing but a rehash of what it has been saying all along—it limits its apology to the use of its logo on the offensive Last Supper promotional poster for [...]

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MILLER’S APOLOGY IS INSULTING

By |2012-10-11T20:31:13-04:00October 25th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded today to the latest news regarding Miller’s sponsorship of anti-Catholicism: “The Miller Brewing Company and the Board of Directors of the Folsom Street Fair have both issued press statements this week apologizing for the offensive Last Supper poster that was used to promote the event. As such, they have insulted [...]

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MILLER BOYCOTT REACHES NEW LEVEL

By |2012-10-11T20:31:16-04:00October 24th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the latest developments regarding the league’s protest of Miller beer: “The Miller boycott has now reached a new level. In addition to the countless number of Catholics who have called us joining the boycott, we are now drawing the support of high-ranking members of the Catholic clergy, the [...]

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NYC DISTORTS COURT RULINGS ON HOLIDAY DISPLAYS

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 24th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the way the New York City Department of Education is misrepresenting court decisions on holiday displays in the schools: “Bridget Kearney, an officer of the Ladies Order of Hibernians, recently received a letter from the New York City Department of Education that flatly distorts the truth about court [...]

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MILLER BREWING PROTEST CONTINUES: MILWAUKEE CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS CONTACTED

By |2012-10-11T20:31:22-04:00October 22nd, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue explained the latest strategy for dealing with Miller’s sponsorship of anti-Catholicism: “We’re not going away. After having sent the most unbelievable photos of decadent anti-Catholicism to all the priests, ministers, rabbis and imams in Milwaukee, we are now hitting the civic associations. Because there are so many, we are choosing a [...]

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MILWAUKEE RABBIS AND IMAMS GET MILLER PHOTOS; BOYCOTT IS IN FULL SWING

By |2012-10-11T20:31:25-04:00October 15th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue released the following statement today regarding the league’s protest of Miller beer: “Last week we sent some photos of the Miller-sponsored Folsom Street Fair to all the pastors of the 166 Protestant churches in Milwaukee. Today we are blanketing all the synagogues and mosques in Milwaukee; we are asking rabbis and [...]

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DAVID E. KELLEY—TINSELTOWN’S ACE BIGOT

By |2012-10-11T20:31:29-04:00October 10th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on last night’s episode of the ABC show, “Boston Legal”: “The show featured a 15 year-old girl who is enrolled in an abstinence-only sex education program, contracts HIV and then sues her school, blaming it for her condition. At the trial, the school’s principal, the girl’s attorneys and the [...]

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MILWAUKEE MINISTERS HIT WITH S&M MILLER PHOTOS

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 10th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Catholic League president Bill Donohue released the following statement today regarding the league’s protest of Miller beer: “Last week I announced that all 211 parishes in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee were being mailed a memo and some photos of the Miller-sponsored Folsom Street Fair; this was the first of many mailings that would occur weekly. Today [...]

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MILLER TO COMBINE WITH MOLSON COORS; END TO CATHOLIC BASHING SOUGHT

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 9th, 2007|Categories: Latest News Releases|Tags: |

Today’s announcement that SABMiller PLC and Molson Coors Brewing Company are planning to combine U.S. operations, possibly by the end of this year, was greeted with enthusiasm by Catholic League president Bill Donohue: “Now is the time for S&M Miller to rid itself of its nasty image, so that the new company, MillerCoors, isn’t known as [...]

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