The following letter is being emailed today to over 200 beer distributors across the nation: Dear Beer Distributors: You may be aware that a national boycott of Guinness is under way. Let me explain why. Guinness pulled its sponsorship of New York's St. Patrick's Day parade this year, citing its support for gay rights. Its reasoning [...]
Bill Donohue sent the following letter today to three top officials at Diageo-Guinness in Norwalk, Connecticut, and three others in London: "The decision to withdraw sponsorship of New York's St. Patrick's Day parade is not being welcomed by Catholics, especially Irish Catholics; we are also impressed by the number of non-Catholics who have expressed their support [...]
On March 22, NPR flagged this comment by Jimmy Carter: "The fact that the Catholic Church, for instance, prohibits women from serving as priests or even deacons gives a kind of a permission to male people all over the world, that well, if God thinks that women are inferior, I'll treat them as inferiors. If she [...]
Bill Donohue's article "Gay Parade Organizers Thinly Hypocritical" was just published by Newsmax. Click here to read it. We also highly recommend an article in The American Spectator, "Bill Donohue and the Gay Thought Police" by Jeffrey Lord. To read it click here.
Bill Donohue comments on media reaction to the Guinness boycott: In just one week, we succeeded in getting 82 media hits on our boycott of Guinness (click here to see the list). From Australia and England, to Canada and the United States, the boycott story has been picked up by TV, radio, newspapers, and the Internet. [...]
Bill Donohue has a question for Rep. Nancy Pelosi: The Drudge Report is featuring a story about British hospitals that are throwing aborted babies into an incinerator; the "chemical waste" is being used to heat the hospitals. Dr. Dan Poulter, the health minister at the Department of Health, said, "This practice is totally unacceptable." He did [...]
Bill Donohue comments on his exchange with officials from New York's Heritage of Pride parade: For the past few days I have been engaged in an e-mail conversation with officials from the Heritage of Pride parade, New York's annual gay event; the dialogue has been cordial. I asked to join the parade under a banner that [...]
Bill Donohue comments on a five-judge Manhattan Appellate Division panel that overturned a termination ruling against two lesbians who were caught having sex in a classroom: In 2009, two tenured women teachers at James Madison High School in Brooklyn went drinking after school, and then returned to attend a student singing contest. Apparently bored, they walked [...]
Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments in the Catholic League's boycott of Guinness: We are asking those who support our boycott of Guinness to sign our petition (click here). It will be part of our new homepage feature: Guinness Boycott Central. This section will contain valuable information on the boycott, and who to contact. It [...]
Bill Donohue comments on reaction to the Catholic League's call for a boycott of Guinness: The response to our boycott is overwhelming. From a bishop who belongs to the Eastern Catholic Church (Aramaic Rite) in Lima, Peru, to a former community organizer in New Jersey, we have seen an outpouring of angry Catholics who are fully [...]
