Through the L.A. Grapevine: Update

After checking with friends at the network, I’m very relieved to learn that the rumor that CBS had bowed to Vatican demands that no Jewish or gay people be allowed to work on the new special on the life of the Pope is absolutely untrue. In fact, I’m told there are gay people and Jewish people already working on the project.

It’s sad that we live in a time where bigotry and pressure-group power is so prevalent that a story such as this one seems believable… and very good news that it turns out, as I had hoped, not to be true.