Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League’s campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals,” and why he is asking Bayer, maker of Claritin, to drop its sponsorship:

Please contact Tricia McKernan, Bayer’s media director, and tell her how offended Catholics are by a show that is based on the life of an obscene anti-Catholic bigot, Dan Savage (who is also an executive producer), and why we are requesting that Bayer stop advertising Claritin on the show.

Contact: tricia.mckernan@bayer.com

Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League’s campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals,” and why he is asking General Mills, maker of Honey Nut Cheerios and other cereals, to drop its sponsorship:

Please contact General Mills and tell them how offended Catholics are by a show that is based on the life of an obscene anti-Catholic bigot, Dan Savage (who is also an executive producer), and why we are requesting that General Mills stop advertising its cereal on the show.

Contact: media.line@genmills.com

Bill Donohue comments on recent attempts to ban the Bible:

There was a time when religious groups sought to ban obscene books from public libraries, but these days it is militant secularists who are seeking to ban the Bible. Here are four examples. What makes this special is that they all occurred this week.

• A host of activist groups contacted the Department of Veterans Affairs asking it to put an end to the practice of banning the Bible at Veterans’ medical clinics, and on military installations
• An Ohio congressman registered his objections to the removal of the Bible from a POW display at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
• The American Library Association reported that (for the first time) the Bible made the “Top Ten” list of books that citizens sought to ban from libraries
• The Governor of Idaho, Butch Otter, vetoed a bill permitting the Bible to be used as a Reference book in the public schools

In some cases, malicious intent was operative; in others, ignorance was at work. Take the last example.

Gov. Otter said that allowing the Bible as a Reference book in a public school violated the Idaho Constitution. He offered the following quotes: “No sectarian or religious tenets or doctrines shall ever be taught in the public schools,” and, “No books, papers, tracts or documents of a political, sectarian or denominational character shall be used….”

This is patently false. It has been legal to teach about religion, using religious texts, since the beginning of the republic. It is the teaching of religion that is unconstitutional. Gov. Otter looks even more enfeebled when he relies on the Idaho Constitution to make his point. Is it not a decidedly political document? Does he think it is a comic book? Moreover, don’t they teach the U.S. Constitution in Idaho schools? Has any teacher ever been arrested for distributing the Declaration of Independence? This is worse than madness—it is anti-American.

Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League’s campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals,” and why he is asking Verizon Fios to drop its sponsorship:

Please contact Janet Brumfield, Director of Corporate Communications for Verizon Fios and tell her how offended Catholics are by a show that is based on the life of an obscene anti-Catholic bigot, Dan Savage (who is also an executive producer), and why we are requesting that Verizon Fios stop advertising on the show.

Contact: janet.brumfield@verizon.com

Bill Donohue comments on tonight’s episode of “The Real O’Neals”:

We won’t be commenting tomorrow on tonight’s episode of “The Real O’Neals,” and that is because they are rerunning the first episode, which aired March 2.

Next week they will air a new episode, but given that only seven episodes have aired thus far, it is bizarre for ABC to go back to the well—or in this case the gutter—so soon.

Perhaps this is an omen of what is to come. One thing is for sure—we aren’t going away. Indeed, we will be back tomorrow asking everyone to contact another one of the show’s sponsors.

Meanwhile, contact Disney/ABC chief Ben Sherwood and ask him to do the right thing and cancel the show.

Contact: ben.sherwood@abc.com

Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League’s campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals,” and why he is asking McDonald’s to drop its sponsorship:

Please contact Rebecca Hary, Director of Global Media Relations for McDonald’s, and tell her how offended Catholics are by a show that is based on the life of an obscene anti-Catholic bigot, Dan Savage (who is also an executive producer), and why we are requesting that McDonald’s stop advertising on the show.

Contact: becca.hary@us.mcd.com  

Bill Donohue comments on a bill that will soon be introduced in Albany that will eliminate the statute of limitations for sexual abuse crimes against minors:

On April 1, I issued a news release that was critical of New York State Senator Brad Hoylman for sponsoring a bill that would exclude public institutions from legislation eliminating the statute of limitations for sexual abuse crimes.

I now commend him for pivoting. According to an exclusive by Ken Lovett of the Daily News (he has covered this issue better than anyone), Hoylman, and State Senator Andrea-Stewart Cousins, will submit a bill that covers all institutions equally, whether public or private. That is how it should be: justice demands that young victims of sex crimes be treated equally, independent of the venue of the offense.

As someone who has written two books on civil liberties, I am well aware of the solid legal grounds upon which the statute of limitations has been crafted, and I support them. But as president of the Catholic League, I have a different charge: our goal is to fight defamation and discrimination against Catholics and the Catholic Church. That is why I commend Senator Hoylman and Senator Cousins for their initiative.

Contact: hoylman@nysenate.gov

Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League’s campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals,” and why he is asking the parent company of Advil to drop its sponsorship:

Please contact Steve Danehy, media director for Pfizer (Advil is owned by Pfizer), and tell him how offended Catholics are by a show that is based on the life of an obscene anti-Catholic bigot, Dan Savage (who is also an executive producer), and why we are requesting that Pfizer stop advertising Advil on the show.

Contact: steven.danehy@pfizer.com

Bill Donohue comments on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of Love,” in his latest Newsmax article. To read it click here.

Bill Donohue comments on the Catholic League’s campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals,” and why he is asking TJX Companies (the firm that owns T-J-Maxx, Marshalls, and other retail stores) to drop its sponsorship:

Please contact Jessica Van Horn, media director of TJX Companies, and tell her how offended Catholics are by a show that is based on the life of an obscene anti-Catholic bigot, Dan Savage (who is also an executive producer), and why we are requesting that TJX stop advertising its retail stores on the show.

Contact: Jessica.VanHorn@edelman.com