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Britney’s Confessional Shoot

By |2017-03-20T17:54:41-04:00October 30th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

When asked by the New York Daily News about Britney Spears's latest photo shoot, which depicts racy scenes with a priest in the confessional, Catholic League president Bill Donohue had this to say: "This is all the puzzle pieces coming together. This girl is crashing. She's not even allowed to bring up her own kids because she's not responsible [...]

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Halloween Hijinks Target Catholics

By |2017-03-20T17:54:41-04:00October 30th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

Every Halloween, the ghouls come out of the woodwork. But these ghouls are not supernatural. Rather, they are those who take a fun children’s holiday and turn it into a chance to bash the Catholic clergy. A number of costume stores are carrying two particularly odious getups. Made by Spirit Halloween, a division of Spencer Gifts, [...]

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James Watson, Fan of Infanticide, Resigns

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 26th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of DNA, resigned from his position as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after an uproar over remarks he made questioning the intelligence of blacks. It is not only recently that Watson has made such comments—in 2000, he told an audience at the University of California at Berkeley [...]

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Leno’s Censors

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 24th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

We noticed with interest that “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” bleeped a comment by Halle Berry that its in-house censors didn’t like. According to today’s New York Post, on October 19 Berry pointed to photos of herself using a computer program that distorts images. Upon seeing a picture of herself with a big nose, she exclaimed, [...]

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Sex Abuse in Schools

By |2011-09-06T17:58:52-04:00October 23rd, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

The Catholic League commends Martha Irvine and Robert Tanner of the Associated Press (AP) for their 3,272 word article “Sexual misconduct plagues US schools.” AP reporters studied disciplinary records of teachers in every state and the District of Columbia and “found 2,570 educators whose teaching credentials were revoked, denied, surrendered or sanctioned from 2001 through 2005 following allegations [...]

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“Tinseltown’s Ace Bigot” Is At It Again

By |2011-09-06T18:00:18-04:00October 19th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

As we noted in a recent news release, on October 9 ABC’s “Boston Legal” featured a Catholic nun in full habit uttering a sexual innuendo having nothing to do with the storyline at hand. We branded the show’s creator, David E. Kelley, “Tinseltown’s Ace Bigot.” Kelley has a long-standing animus toward Catholicism. On October 16, Kelley was [...]

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“Chocolate Jesus” Comes Back to New York

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 16th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

“My Sweet Jesus,” another life-sized chocolate sculpture of a naked crucified Jesus by artist Cosimo Cavallaro, will be displayed in a New York gallery on West 22nd Street from October 27 through November 24. Unlike last spring, when we launched a boycott against Manhattan’s posh Roger Smith Hotel (the boycott was dropped when the hotel cancelled [...]

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Dinesh D’Souza to Debate Christopher Hitchens—October 22 in NYC

By |2011-09-06T18:04:35-04:00October 15th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

On Monday October 22 at 7:30 pm, The King’s College will host a debate between Dinesh D’Souza and Christopher Hitchens. The subject will be “Is Christianity the Problem.” The debate will be held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 64th Street and Central Park West, in New York City. For more information, visit The [...]

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Same Old Bigotry in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”

By |2011-09-06T18:08:12-04:00October 12th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

“Elizabeth: The Golden Age,” a new film about Queen Elizabeth opens today in theaters. There is nothing new, however, about the way British Catholics are depicted compared to their Protestant counterparts. According to the New York Times, the portrayal of the “Catholic-led holy war” waged by Spain’s King Philip II against Elizabeth, “with its ominous monks and [...]

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Religious Discrimination on Long Island

By |2017-03-20T17:54:42-04:00October 9th, 2007|Categories: Chatterbox...|

Bill Donohue had this to say about a recent case of discrimination in Long Island, New York: "The Catholic League is pleased to announce that it has been contacted by the office of the New York State Division of Human Rights regarding the controversy over the public display of religious objects at Country Pointe at Coram [...]

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