Garland, Texas was home to an anti-Islam cartoon event last month that left two gunmen dead and one security guard wounded. Minutes before Elton Simpson started shooting, one of his supporters tweeted, "If there is no check on the freedom of your speech, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions." Simpson [...]
David Letterman's last appearance on "The Late Show" was May 20. We were delighted to see him exit. Letterman's departure was treated by the Hollywood crowd as a signature moment in television history. But no fair-minded person could ever come to that conclusion. Quite simply, the man is an anti-Catholic bigot. If anyone doubts this to [...]
William A. Donohue We hear it all the time: the Catholic Church discriminates against women. As compared to which institutions? The Congress? Women comprise 18 percent of its members. Fortune 500 companies? Women account for only 5 percent of the chief financial officers. What about the Catholic Church? Of the top three diocesan positions—chancellor, chief financial [...]
The oral arguments that were recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court proved why the gay marriage issue is before the highest court in the nation: radical individualism and radical egalitarianism are the driving ideologies. In the second set of oral arguments, the word "dad" was never mentioned, and the word "father" was cited only once. [...]
In the run-up to the U.S. Supreme Court's oral arguments on same-sex marriage, a popular refrain voiced by its proponents sounded very much like the Beatles song, "Love Is All You Need." But in real life, there is a whole lot more to marriage than love. Not only is love as a basis for marriage a [...]
We know that President Obama is infinitely more sensitive to the concerns of Muslims than Christians. He cites Christians by name when he wants to blame them for some historical event, but he never mentions Muslims by name for their current slaughter of innocent Christians. His Secretary of State, John Kerry, is at one with him. [...]
Recently, the Pew Research Center released a survey on religion. The bad news has already dominated media reports: more Americans are religiously unaffiliated than ever before. The ranks of Protestants and Catholics are declining, and the percentage of atheists and agnostics are increasing. This is true across age groups, though it is most pronounced among young [...]
During a recent episode of "The O’Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel, host Bill O'Reilly commented on the Pew Research Center survey of religion that came out last month. Here is what O'Reilly said: "The main reason Christianity is on the decline is poor leadership and corruption within the Catholic Church. The priest scandal devastated [...]
George Will's atheism got the best of him—not for the first time—when he recently unloaded on presidential hopeful Gov. Mike Huckabee. Among the several things that bother Will about Huckabee was his remark, "We are moving rapidly toward the criminalization of Christianity." One does not have to be a Southern Baptist minister to understand that Huckabee's [...]
A few weeks ago, Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald Luzier, more popularly known as Luz, revealed that he would not be drawing Muhammad anymore. Soon after making this announcement, he also revealed that he is leaving the publication. His resignation will take effect this Septemer. Luz became a Hall of Fame cartoonist when he put his portrayal [...]
