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January 9 Lincoln, NE – State Senator Lowen Kruse introduced a bill that sought to curb underage drinking. In addition to banning minors from consuming alcohol in their own homes, the proposed legislation extended to places of worship during religious rites. In response to protests from religious leaders of various faiths, Kruse claimed that it was unlikely [...]
February 2 New York, NY — The Forum Gallery displayed a painting titled "Bread Shine," which depicted several tiny figures engaged in sex acts beneath an industrial breadbox. A figure of Christ was attached to the breadbox as a decal. The painting was one of 30 by Gregory Gillespie that were displayed at the gallery. March 23 [...]
Catholic League president William Donohue offered the following remarks today regarding Florida’s Broward Art Guild: “On May 31, I was informed about a May 27 news article that appeared in the Sun Sentinel regarding the ‘Controversy’ exhibit at the Broward Art Guild. The article said that one of the artists, Michael Friedman, had complained to Mary Becht, Director [...]
It happened on a late Friday afternoon, March 30. Patrick Scully, the league’s director of communications, told William Donohue that an article had appeared that day in a Fort Lauderdale newspaper, the Sun Sentinel, claiming that when the play "Corpus Christi" opened in New York in 1998, "The league threatened violence…." Donohue immediately called the Sun Sentinel making the [...]
On February 24, Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel yielded to pressure from the Catholic League by issuing an apology and a pledge not to run any more anti-Catholic ads. The League raised objections on February 23 regarding the February 9 publication of a four-page ad that had been paid for by a Seventh Day Adventist splinter group. It [...]
November We sent all 50 governors a manger scene to be displayed during the Christmas season, and most did not have the courtesy of even replying. As you can see from the list below, we received the best regional response from the South; the worst came from the West Coast. New York returned the crèche, though [...]
Movies January "The Ogre," a film about a naïve Catholic man in the Paris suburbs who is seduced into the pagan lifestyle of Nazi Germany, contained "minor attacks on the Catholic clergy," according to a review in Human Events. March The film "Relax…It’s Just Sex" featured the following line: "You know how lesbians are. They’re like [...]
January Request magazine published a painting under the headline, "10 Things Jesus Christ and Michael Jackson have in Common," in which Michael Jackson was made to look like Jesus Christ, complete with halo. Among the ten things held in common were: "Oprah claims personal relationship to both;" "Suffer the little children to come unto me;" "Needed 12 [...]
