57. Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino, The Jesus Family Tomb (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007).
58. William Donohue, “Executive Summary,” Catholic League’s 2007 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism.
59. Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, CNN, April 2, 2007.
60. “U.S. House Passes Resolution Supporting Christmas and Christianity,” a Christian Newswire release by Liberty Counsel, December 12, 2007.
61. John O’Sullivan, “The Sensitivity Trap,” New York Post, July 7, 2008, p. 21.
62. Catholic League’s 2001 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. vi.
63. Catholic League’s 2003 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. 18.
64. “Fear Guides Media Response to Cartoons,” Catalyst, April 2006.
65. “Beheadings, Anyone?,” Catalyst, April 2006.
66. “Univ. of Oregon Okays Obscene Depiction of Jesus,” Catalyst, June 2006.
67. Nightline, transcript, September 22, 2006.
68. Alex Strachen, “‘South Park’ a Perfect 10: Creators of Popular Program Continue to ‘Rip on Everyone’ for 10th Straight TV Season,” Nanaimo Daily News (British Columbia), October 17, 2006.
69. James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars (New York: Basic Books, 1991), pp. 150–151.
70. Nicholas von Hoffman, “Holy Rollers Hell-Bent on Destroying Secular Law,” New York Observer, May 23, 2005, p. 4.
71. John Dean, “Michelle Goldberg’s Study of the Rise of Christian Nationalism, and Its Adherents’ Strategy to Use the Courts to Further Their Agenda,” FindLaw.com, August 25, 2006.
72. Andrew Sullivan, “My Problem with Christianism; A Believer Spells Out the Difference Between Faith and a Political Agenda,” Time, May 15, 2006, p. 74.
73. Charles W. Socarides, “How America Went Gay,” America, November 18, 1995.
74. Rabbi Lapin, America’s Real War, pp. 39–40.
75. Midge Decter, “The ADL vs. the ‘Religious Right,’” Commentary, September 1994.
76. Julia Duin, “Jewish Leaders to Devise Strategy,” Washington Times, December 5, 2005.
77. Abraham Foxman, “The Threat of Islamic Extremism,” ADL.org, October 28, 2006.
78. Richard John Neuhaus, “Weird and Wonderful Travels in Evangelicaldom,” First Things, May 2007, p. 59.
79. Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), pp. 6–7.
80. Ibid., p. 23.
81. Ibid., p. 184.
82. Rabbi James Rudin, The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans for the Rest of Us (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006), p. 3.
83. Ibid., p. 15.
84. Ibid., p. 18.
85. Ibid., pp. 72–73.
86. Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), p. ix.
87. Ibid., p. xi.
88. Ibid., p. 25.
89. Ibid., p. 41.
90. Ibid., pp. 60–61.
91. Ross Douthat, “Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy,” First Things, August-September 2006, p. 23.
92. G. Jeffrey MacDonald, “This Year, Lots of Fireworks Over the Founders’ Faith,” Christian Science Monitor, July 3, 2006, USA Section, p. 1.
93. Stanley Kurtz, “Scary Stuff,” National Review Online, April 28, 2005.
94. Nicholas D. Kristof, “A Modest Proposal for a Truce on Religion,” New York Times, December 3, 2006, Section 4, p. 13.
Chapter 3: Sexual Sabotage
1. Robert George, The Clash of Orthodoxies, p. 15.
2. Will Herberg, “What Is the Moral Crisis of Our Time?,” Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1986, p. 9; this is a reprint of the 1968 article by Herberg in the same journal.
3. Leszek Kolakowski, “The Idolatry of Politics,” New Republic, June 16, 1986, p. 31.
4. See the Catholic League news releases of August 19 and 22, 2002, on Opie and Anthony at catholicleague.org. When they were fired, I petitioned the FCC to withdraw my request that WNEW have its license rescinded.
5. John Leo, “Repackaging the Perps,” U.S. News and World Report, May 17, 1999, p. 14.
6. “National Day of Prayer,” larryflynt.com/national_prayer_day.
7. “120 Days of Sodom: Information from Answers.com,” Wikipedia, pp. 3–4.
8. Peter Mullen, “Nostalgia for Nihilism,” The Catholic Herald, May 2, 2008.
9. William Norman Grigg, “The Porn Revolution,” The New American, June 2, 2003.
10. “Thinkers Behind the Culture of Death,” an interview with Donald DeMarco, yourcatholicvoice.org, November 12, 2004.
11. Mullen, “Nostalgia for Nihilism.”
12. William Donohue, “Psychology’s War on Catholicism,” in Nicholas Cummings, William O’Donohue, and Janet Cummings, eds., Psychology’s War on Religion (Phoenix: Zeig-Tucker, 2009), pp. 129–146.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Dennis Altman, Homosexual (New York: Avon Books, 1971), p. 105.
16. Daly’s most prominent book was The Church and the Second Sex (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).
17. A. C. Grayling, “Greed Can Indeed Be Good,” Financial Times (Weekend Magazine), April 29, 2006, p. 25.
18. Mead had an affair with Ruth Benedict while engaged to Luther Cressman and an adulterous affair with Edward Sapir. See Joyce Milton, The Road to Malpsychia: Humanist Psychology and Our Discontents (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002), pp. 23–24.
19. Sue Ellen Browder, “Kinsey’s Secret: The Phony Science of the Sexual Revolution,” Crisis, May 2004, p. 14.
20. Ibid., p. 15.
21. Milton, The Road to Malpsychia, p. 221.
22. Joseph Epstein, “The Secret Life of Alfred Kinsey, Sex Researcher,” Commentary, January 1998, pp. 37–38.
23. Tom Bethell, “Sex, Lies, and Kinsey; Exposing the Father of Child Abuse,” American Spectator, May 1996.
24. Tom Bethell, “Kinsey as Pervert,” American Spectator, April 1, 2005.
25. Judith A. Reisman, Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences, 2nd edition (Arlington, Virginia: First Principles Press, 1998), pp. 176–177.
26. Milton, Malpsychia, p. 222.
27. John Leo, “Apologists for Pedophilia,” U.S. News & World Report, April 22, 2002, p. 53.
28. Edward Eichel, “Kinsey Has No Clothes,” letter to the editor, Wall Street Journal, May 6, 1993, p. A11.
29. “SIECUS Sex Education Guidelines,” In Focus (publication of the Family Research Council), 1995.
30. Dana Mack, “What the Sex Educators Teach,” Commentary, August 1993, p. 33.
31. Rod Dreher, “The Racist Roots of Pro-Abortionists,” New York Post, October 10, 1999, p. 20.
32. Ellen Chesler, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 15.
33. Daniel Flynn, Intellectual Morons (New York: Crown Forum, 2004), pp. 154–157.
34. Joseph R. Stanton, “History’s Blind Spot,” Catholic World Report, November 1994, p. 63.
35. Robert P. Lockwood, “NARAL, Anti-Catholicism and the Roots of the Pro-Abortion Campaign,” Catalyst, June 2001; a longer version is available in the Research Papers section of the Catholic League Web site.
36. Ibid.
37. “Abortion Opponents Say Anti-Catholicism Taints Debate,” UPI, December 17, 1989.
38. Robert P. Lockwood, “NARAL, Anti-Catholicism and the Roots of the Pro-Abortion Campaign.”
39. Ibid.
40. Douglas Martin, “Lawrence Lader, Champion of Abortion Rights, Is Dead at 86,” New York Times, May 10, 2006, p. A23.
41. “NARAL Welcomes Democrats and Kissling,” Catalyst, March 2003.
42. “Hugh Hefner’s Hollow Victory,” Christianity Today, December 1, 2003. See also James L. Lambert, “Playboy’s Message to America,” CatholicExchange.com, June 2, 2003.
43. “New NOW Leader Is Foe of Catholics,” Catholic League news release, July 3, 2001; and “Anti-Catholic Bigots Rally to Attack Vatican,” C
atholic League news release, July 12, 2001.
44. William Donohue, “Pope Protesters a Pathetic Lot,” Catalyst, November 1995.
45. James Martin, “An Interview with Camille Paglia,” America, November 12, 1994, p. 10.
46. Bruce Lambert, “Places for AIDS Patients Are Still Scarce,” New York Times, December 17, 1989, Section 4, p. 6.
47. Private collection. See also Mary Ann Poust and Gerald M. Costello, “Unfair, Unjustified and Offensive,” Catholic New York, December 14, 1989, p. 3.
48. Ray Kerrison, “Protests Rock St. Pat’s,” New York Post, December 11, 1989, p. 2.
49. Pat Buchanan, “The Desecration of St. Pat’s,” New York Post, December 16, 1989, p. 15.
50. Manuel Perez-Rivas and Ji-Yeon Yuh, “Protest Siege at St. Pat’s,” Newsday, December 11, 1989, p. 2.
51. Kerrison, “Protests Rock St. Pat’s.”
52. “The Storming of St. Pat’s,” New York Times, December 12, 1989, p. A24.
53. Martin Duberman, “Stonewall: After Many a Summer Endures a Symbol; The Making of a Myth,” Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, July 31, 1994, p. 4.
54. Poust and Costello, “Unfair, Unjustified and Offensive.”
55. Ibid.
56. See the Don Shewey interview, “Madonna: The Saint, the Slut, the Sensation,” Advocate, May 7, 21, 1991.
57. The account of the 1994 event is taken from my article “Stonewall at 25,” Crisis, October 1994.
58. The account of the 1995 event is taken from my article “Gays, Giuliani and Catholics,” Crisis, September 1995.
59. News as reported by Zachary Margulis and Dave Saltonstall, New York Daily News, June 25, 1995, p. 6.
60. See the Frequently Asked Questions regarding NYC Pride, June 22–29, 2008, nycpride.org/faq.
61. Cara Buckley, “Closing Time at a Diner That Never Closed,” New York Times, June 30, 2008, p. B3.
62. William Donohue, “Gays, Giuliani and Catholics,” Crisis, September 1995.
63. See the Catholic League news releases on this issue that were issued from September 25 to October 31, 2007, as well as the November and December 2007 issues of Catalyst. All are available at catho licleague.org.
64. “Gay Marriage Loses; Protests Turn Ugly,” Catalyst, December 2008.
65. “Gay Fascists Storm Church,” Catalyst, December 2008.
66. “Gays Vandalize San Francisco Church,” Catholic League news release, January 5, 2009.
Chapter 4: Artistic Sabotage
1. Michael J. Lewis, “Body and Soul,” Commentary, January 2007, p. 31.
2. “A Show to Hold Your Nose For,” New York Post, Page Six, July 14, 2008, p. 12.
3. “Los Angeles Museum Hosts Attack on Virgin Mary,” Catholic League news release, October 16, 1997.
4. The Tom of Finland Foundation DISPATCH, Summer 1996, available at tomoffinlandfoundation.org. See, too, William Donohue, “Executive Summary,” Catholic League’s 1996 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism.
5. Catholic League’s 1996 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. 4.
6. Catholic League’s 2006 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. 6.
7. “Figurines Show Pope and Nuns Defecating at Napa, California Museum,” Catholic League news release, January 4, 2002.
8. Catholic League’s 2007 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. 9.
9. “Catholic Bashing on Campus,” Catalyst, July-August 2008.
10. “Custodian Throws Away Art Exhibit Mistaken for Trash,” Associated Press, June 20, 2003; “Garbage as Art—Art as Garbage,” blogcritics.org, August 28, 2004.
11. William Donohue, The New Freedom: Individualism and Collectivism in the Social Lives of Americans (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Press, 1990), p. 41.
12. Ibid., p. 40.
13. Roger Kimball, “The Elephant in the Gallery, or the Lessons of ‘Sensation,’” New Criterion, November 1, 1999, p. 4.
14. “Firestorm of Protest Greets Beastly Art Exhibit,” Catalyst, November 1999.
15. Ibid.
16. “Donohue on the ‘Today’ Show,” Catalyst, November 1999.
17. “Donohue on National Public Radio,” Catalyst, November 1999; “Donohue at Rally Against the Museum,” Catalyst, November 1999.
18. “Donohue at Rally Against the Museum,” Catalyst, November 1999.
19. “Arts, First Amendment Supporters Rally at Brooklyn Museum,” People for the American Way news release, October 1, 1999.
20. “William Donohue, “Myths Color ‘Sensation’ Exhibit,” Catalyst, November 1999.
21. “Extraordinary Press Conference,” Catalyst, November 1999.
22. William Donohue, “Myths Color ‘Sensation’ Exhibit.”
23. “Orthodox Union Criticizes Brooklyn Museum Exhibit,” Orthodox Union news release, September 27, 1999.
24. “Brooklyn Museum of Art Emits New Stench,” Catalyst, December 1999.
25. Ibid.
26. Catholic League’s 2001 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, pp. 9–10.
27. Steven C. Dubin, Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation (New York: New York University Press, 1999), p. 275.
28. Rob Owen, “‘Hornblower’ Actor Pleased with Series’ Second Part,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 20, 2001, p. C6.
29. Erik Piepenburg, “Dysfunctional Since Before It Was Cool,” New York Times, July 6, 2008, p. AR5.
30. Catholic League’s 2001 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, pp. 50–51.
31. “‘Corpus Christi’ to Run in Fall; Protest Mounts,” Catalyst, July-August 1998.
32. “Censoring Terrence McNally,” New York Times, May 28, 1998, p. A28.
33. The ad was reproduced in the July-August 1998 edition of Catalyst.
34. Ibid.
35. Letter by Abraham Foxman to Rick Hinshaw, Catholic League director of communications, July 7, 1998.
36. “‘Corpus Christi’ to Run in Fall; Protest Mounts,” Catalyst, July-August 1998.
37. William Donohue, “‘Corpus Christi’ Is Gay Hate Speech,” Catalyst, November 1998.
38. “Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims Protest ‘Corpus Christi,’” Catalyst, October 1998.
39. Robin Pogrebin, “Pickets, Pro and Con, for Play Premiere,” New York Times, October 14, 1998, p. B3.
40. “Rally Against ‘Corpus Christi’ a Hit; Critics Pan the Play,” Catalyst, November 1998.
41. Ibid. See also Pogrebin, “Pickets, Pro and Con, for Play Premiere.”
42. “League’s Free Speech Assailed,” Catalyst, November 1998.
43. Two news releases were sent by this ad hoc group, one on June 7, the other on June 8, 1998. They are part of the Catholic League’s archives on this issue.
44. Transcript of debate on New York Close-Up, New York 1, hosted by Sam Roberts of the New York Times, June 3, 1998.
45. William Donohue, letter to Barbara Handman, October 15, 1998.
46. Jason Zinoman, “A Modern Gay-You-Know-Who Superstar,” New York Times, October 22, 2008, p. C2.
47. Mark Blankenship, “Moments in History, Converging Anew,” New York Times, October 19, 2008, p. AR8.
48. Clark Hoyt, “The Perilous Intersection of Art and Religion,” New York Times, November 9, 2008, Section WK, p. 9.
49. Norm Clarke, “Roast Attendees Take Umbrage with Stunt by Penn & Teller,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 17, 2003, p. A3.
50. “Mother Teresa Defamed; CBS Petition Started,” Catalyst, July-August 2005.
51. Don Shewey, “Madonna: The Saint, the Slut, the Sensation,” donshewey.com. The interview first appeared in the Advocate, May 7, 21, 1991.
52. “NBC Yields,” Catalyst, November 2006.
53. “Springer’s ‘Opera’ Comes to Carnegie Hall,” Catalyst, January-February 2008.
54. Ibid.
Chapter 5: Sabotaged by Hollywood
1. William Donohue, “Jews and Hollywood,” Catalyst, January-February 2005.
2. Clai
re Hoffman, “Report Says TV Losing Its Religion,” Los Angeles Times, December 15, 2006, p. C3.
3. “The Media Assault on American Values,” Special Report of the Media Research Center, 2007.
4. Caryn James, “The Unknown Sundance, in Unlikely Places,” New York Times, February 4, 1996, Section 2, p. 13.
5. Michael Medved, Right Turns: Unconventional Lessons from a Controversial Life (New York: Crown Forum, 2004), p. 326.
6. Michael Medved, Hollywood vs. America (New York: Harper-Perennial, 1992), pp. 52–55.
7. See the transcript for The O’Reilly Factor, October 5, 2006.
8. William Donohue on the MSNBC TV show Scarborough Country, December 8, 2004.
9. Ibid.
10. William Donohue, “Jews and Hollywood,” Catalyst, January-February 2005.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Shmuley Boteach, “American Isn’t a ‘Christian’ Nation,” Jerusalem Post, February 10, 2005, p. 16.
14. “Editor’s Notebook; Brando’s Jews,” Forward, July 9, 2004, p. 8.
15. William Donohue, “Nice to Know What Offends Hollywood,” Catalyst, September 2006.
16. Ibid.
17. Thomas J. Herron, “Bill Donohue’s Catholic League Whacks Culture War,” Culture Wars, October 2004, p. 20.
18. Thomas J. Herron and E. Michael Jones, “Non-Existent Conspiracy Causes Catholics to Cower,” Culture Wars, December 2006, p. 37.
19. William Donohue, “Priest,” Catalyst, May 1995.
20. The New York Times ad of April 10, 1995, “What’s Happening to Disney?,” was republished in Catalyst, May 1995.
21. John Cardinal O’Connor’s article, “From My Viewpoint,” was first published in Catholic New York; it was republished in Catalyst, May 1995.
22. William Donohue, “There’s Anger in the Land,” Catalyst, May 1995; Don Feder, “Church Catches Hell in ‘Priest,’” Catalyst, May 1995; Rabbi Daniel Lapin, America’s Real War (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah, 1999), pp. 310–311.
23. Catholic League’s 1999 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, pp. x–xi.
24. Ibid. The ad is reprinted in the annual report.
25. “‘Dogma’ Finally Opens,” Catalyst, November 1999.
26. Catholic League’s 1999 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. xi.
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