Bill Donohue comments on Religious Freedom Day: January 16 is Religious Freedom Day, a day that most Americans are proud to support. There are some, however, who are frightened by it. Frederick Clarkson is frightened. He is the author of "When Exemption is the Rule: The Religious Freedom Strategy of the Christian Right," an analysis of [...]
Bill Donohue comments on President Obama's State of the Union address: President Obama implored us to "reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion." Regrettably, his opposition to religious profiling cannot be taken seriously. If anything, his administration has contributed to it. The Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate is a classic case [...]
Bill Donohue comments on Washington Archbishop Donald Cardinal Wuerl's remarks on violence: At President Obama's State of the Union address tonight, there will be an empty seat, purposely set aside, in the First Lady's guest box: it represents the victims of gun violence. Those who are seriously interested in this issue might want to ponder the [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a story in today's New York Times: New York Times reporter James Barron has a story today about former Senate majority leader George Mitchell being named the grand marshal of this year's New York St. Patrick's Day Parade. He mentions that a gay group led by Brendan Fay is being allowed to [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the Golden Globes Award ceremony: The Hollywood crowd has a great sense of humor about some things, but even those who delight in pushing the envelope have boundaries. TheWrap, which covers Hollywood, quotes Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais saying that "'The Martian', was a lot funnier than 'Pixels,' but then again, so [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a statement given yesterday by New York Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan on education reform: In an ideal world, school vouchers, or a tuition-tax-credit, would be available to parents across the nation. However, given the vested interests of the teachers' unions, we have to settle for what we can get. In New York [...]
Bill Donohue comments on NARAL's endorsement of Hillary Clinton: NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed Hillary Clinton today for the Democratic presidential nomination. It supports letting infants born of a botched abortion die unattended by doctors. Hillary said she was "honored" by the endorsement. The vast majority of Americans are opposed to the current abortion policy which allows [...]
To read Bill Donohue's comments on the anniversary issue of Charlie Hebdo and media reaction to it, click here. It is also available on Newsmax.
Bill Donohue defends Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks that were given at Archbishop Rummel High School in Metairie, Louisiana on January 2: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that the Constitution was never meant to be neutral about religion. Indeed, he said, "there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition." He admitted that [...]
