May 22, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Bill Donohue

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Anti-Gay Catholic Leader: 'Everyone Knows' Marriage Not About Love

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 04.16.2013 | Religion

An outspoken and controversial Catholic leader claims that procreation, not love, is the reason why two people get married. In an interview on Curr...

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Catholic Leader Claims Gay Dogs, Humans Get Special Treatment

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 02.01.2013 | Religion

Read More: Catholic League, Gays Special Treatment, Being Gay a Bonus, Gay Dog Bill Donohue, Gay Dog Saves, Gay Dog, Bill Donohue, Bill Donohue Catholic League, Religion News

After the story of a "gay" dog captivated the hearts of animal lovers everywhere this week, the outspoken leader of the conservative Catholic League i...

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Catholic League: Obama Should Swear In On The 'Das Kapital'

Posted 01.11.2013 | Religion

Catholic League president Bill Donohue on Friday published a news release, in which he suggested that President Barack Obama should swear in on "Das K...

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Polarization: The Problem And Possibility

Rabbi Ted Falcon | Posted 08.28.2012 | Religion

Read More: Islam, Catholic League, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Interfaith, Rumi, Bill Donohue, Catholic Church, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Christianity, Interfaith Dialogue, Judaism, Religion News

During the many years that we three faith leaders have worked together, we have realized that simply choosing one side or the other in a polarized situation will never help.

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Donohue: 'Obama Has Always Liked The Idea Of Two Men Getting Married'

Posted 05.11.2012 | Religion

Read More: Video, Catholic League, Obama Gay Marriage, Human Rights Campaign, Gay Marriage 2012, Bill Donohue, Gay Marriage, Chad Griffin, Religion News

Bill Donohue from The Catholic League faced-off with Chad Griffin of the Human Rights Campaign on CNN about President Obama's decision to support gay...

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Catholic Group Condemns The Three Stooges, Hollywood For 'Trashing Christianity'

Posted 04.13.2012 | Religion

"The Three Stooges" opens around the country today (April 13th), but there is one group that has already deemed the film a stinker. The Catholic ...

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How Progressive Democrats Remain Catholic

Julian Guthrie | Posted 10.12.2011 | Religion

How can liberal politicians remain a part of an institution that labels homosexuality an "intrinsic disorder," refuses to ordain women as priests and calls abortion a "moral evil," even in the case of rape or incest?

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Bill Donohue Gets on The Ledge

Matthew Chapman | Posted 09.12.2011 | Home

Read More: Catholic Church, Intolerance, Catholicism, Religious Bigotry, The Ledge, Religious Intolerance, Bill Donohue, Bigotry, The Ledge Film, Home News

If Bill Donahue traveled a little more he'd know there are many countries where attempts to censor criticism of religion -- as the Catholic League attempts to do -- are rightly considered archaic and repulsive.

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Catholic Political Operatives Follow the Bishops

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 08.23.2011 | Politics

Read More: Bill Donohue, Assisted Suicide, Mccarthy, Usccb, Bishops, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Thomas Lynch, Patrick Reilly, John Hardt, Lisa Fullam, Aid in Dying, Catholic Bishops, Politics News

As I wrote last week, Compassion & Choices welcomes the affirmation by the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that religious objec...

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Justices Sidestep Catholics' Case Against San Francisco

Posted 07.03.2011 | Religion

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday (May 2) declined to hear a Catholic group's appeal accusing San Fr...

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Critics Wary Of New Smithsonian Review Policy

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Critics who raised objections to a video at a Smithsonian exhibit that showed ants crawling...

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Bill Donohue Wary Of New Smithsonian Review Policy

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Critics who raised objections to a video at a Smithsonian exhibit that showed ants crawling...

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For the Smithsonian's Sake, Clough Should Step Down

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Politics, John Boehner, Artistic-Freedom, Smithsonian, Hide/Seek, National Portrait Gallery, Bill Donohue, Wayne Clough, Censorship, Eric Cantor, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News

In making the decision to remove a controversial work of art from one of the Smithsonian's museums, Clough has shown that he cannot adequately uphold the mission and the legacy of this American institution.

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Smithsonian: Just Put the Art Back

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Catholic League, Bill Donohue, John Boehner, Politics, Smithsonian, Congress, National Portrait Gallery, Censorship, Eric Cantor, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News

Everyone makes mistakes under pressure. But the Smithsonian's leaders have the rare opportunity to correct the damage done by their error of removing David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly exhibit.

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Censorship and Civic Mindedness: There Can Be a Difference

Bill Lasarow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Peter Hujar, Jeffrey Deitch, Blu, Bill Donohue, Smithsonian, Wayne Clough, Moca, National Portrait Gallery, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News

On infrequent occasions a cause célèbre will arise that is a matter of concern and reflection on our society's enshrinement of free speech and expression.

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hide/seek exhibit

Jon O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Read More: Catholic Church, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Institute, National Portrait Galley, Censorship, Bill Donohue, David Wojnarowicz, Catholic League, Catholics for Choice, Religion News

We at Catholics for Choice are very disappointed in your decision to remove David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly." Censorship of the arts is the last thing that an art institution should be doing.

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The Sugar Plum Fairy Divide -- The Haves Versus the Have Nots

Kim Michele Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Federal Funding for the Arts, Bill Donohue, Pbs, House Speaker Eric Cantor, Npr, Art, Kentucky, Congress, Smithsonian, Middle Class, Aids, Kim Michele Richardson, Wealth Gap, R-Virginia, Arts News

Today I looked at my local arts calendar and settled on taking my family to see the Nutcracker ballet. That is, I intended to, until I saw that the w...

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Culture Wars Return to Washington and New York

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Steve Martin, Religion, Congress, Culture Wars, Deborah Solomon, Martin Sullivan, New York Times, National Potrait Gallery, Media, National Endowment for the Arts, Bill Donohue, New York, 92nd Street Y, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News

As a Presidential Appointee in the 1980's to the National Council of the National Endowment for the Arts, it pains me enormously to see a replay of the Culture Wars that were played out so destructively in those years.

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The GOP and the Artist Who Spoiled Yet Another Christmas

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Smithsonian, Catholic League, National Portrait Gallery, John Boehner, Tea Party, Bill Donohue, Censorship, Eric Cantor, David Wojnarowicz, Arts News

The path from David Wojnarowicz's struggle with AIDS to a Smithsonian museum announcing, ironically on World AIDS Day, that Wojnarowicz's artwork might spoil someone's Christmas, says a lot about American politics.

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U.S. Activists Lobby Against U.N. Religious Defamation Resolution

Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom advocates are urging members of the United Nations to vote against the la...

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Colorado Councilman May Want to Explore Why Art "Turned Him On?"

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver

Conservatives are turning an exhibition at the Loveland Museum Gallery in Denver into a political action issue for the upcoming election. Most of those railing against it have never even seen the artwork.

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The Empire (State Building) Strikes Back: Cutting Bill Donohue's King-Kong-Sized Ego Down To Size

Jon O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Not only is Donohue calling for a significant celebratory acknowledgment of Mother Teresa, he is also using this campaign to raise funds for his organization. Bill Donohue is a disgrace.

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Mother Teresa's Centenary Bash: Why I'm Against It

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

If Catholics wish to celebrate Mother Teresa's life in a reverent way, let them donate the costs of this vulgar and faintly punitive birthday celebration to an agency that offers single, poor women housing and support while pregnant.

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I Want Bill Donohue in a Steel Cage

Scott Janssen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Catholic Church, Don King, Wisconsin, Catholic League, Hbo, Cnn, Plagiarism, New York Times, Sexual Abuse, Bill Donohue, Pedophilia, Pope Benedict XVI, Comedy News

Bill Donohue, leader of The Catholic League -- an excuse agency and PR wing of the Catholic Church -- is a walking punchline to the joke that has become the Catholic Church,

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Bill Donohue: 'There's A Connection Between Homosexuality And Sexual Abuse Of Minors' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

***UPDATED BELOW*** Bill Donohue has been vigorously defending the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI as the child sexual abuse scandal continue...

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