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27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. “‘Dogma’ Finally Opens,” Catalyst, November 1999.
30. “‘Dogma’ Petitions Sent to Disney,” Catalyst, November 1999.
31. Christopher Noxon, “Is the Pope Catholic… Enough?,” New York Times Magazine, March 9, 2003.
32. “Jewish Groups Attack Mel Gibson,” Catalyst, July-August 2003.
33. William Donohue, “Even Playing Dirty Didn’t Work,” Catalyst, April 2004.
34. “Jewish Groups Attack Mel Gibson,” Catalyst, July-August 2003.
35. Ibid.
36. Paula Fredriksen, “Mad Mel,” New Republic, July 28–August 4, 2003.
37. “Mel Gibson’s Foes Overheat; Smear Campaign Backfires,” Catalyst, December 2003.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Joanna Molloy and Corky Siemaszko, “Mel Flick Not Pope’s Passion,” New York Daily News, January 20, 2004.
41. See Peggy Noonan’s two columns, “It Is as It Was,” Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2003, and “‘Passion’ and Intrigue,” Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2004. Also, private correspondence, February 7, 2007.
42. Philip F. Lawler, “Is It As It Was?,” Catholic World Report, March 2004, p. 28.
43. “Pope Approves ‘The Passion’; Critics of Mel Confounded,” Catalyst, January-February 2004.
44. Ibid.
45. William Donohue, “An Open Letter to the Jewish Community,” Catalyst, March 2004. The letter was dated February 4, 2004, and was sent to prominent Jews nationwide.
46. My letter to Shapiro is dated February 3, 2004; he replied the next day.
47. Koch made his remarks in the New York Daily News, March 27, 1998; they were reprinted in Catalyst, May 1998.
48. “‘Passion’ Critics Evince New Puritanism,” Catholic League news release, February 24, 2004.
49. “Critics See Porn and S&M in ‘The Passion,’” Catholic League news release, March 5, 2004, and “Critics of the ‘The Passion’ Crackup,” Catholic League news release, March 8, 2004.
50. “Critics of ‘The Passion’ Crackup,” Catholic League news release, March 8, 2004.
51. Vatican Spokesman: “‘The Passion’ Is Not Anti-Semitic,” Catholic League news release, March 12, 2004.
52. “Paula Commits Genocide,” Catalyst, September 2004.
53. “Violence and ‘The Passion’ (Part Two),” Catalyst, June 2004.
54. William Donohue, “Even Playing Dirty Didn’t Work,” Catalyst, April 2004.
55. William Donohue, “Jews and Hollywood.”
56. “‘Da Vinci Code’ Disclaimer Sought in Movie,” Catalyst, April 2006.
57. Sharon Waxman, “Sprinkling Holy Water on ‘The Da Vinci Code,’” New York Times, August 7, 2005, Arts and Leisure, p. 2.
58. William Donohue, “‘Da Vinci Code’ Peddles Lies,” Catalyst, May 2006.
59. “‘60 Minutes’ Isn’t Fooled,” Catalyst, June 2006.
60. The Golden Compass: Agenda Unmasked, a booklet authored by William Donohue and Kiera McCaffrey and published by the Catholic League, 2007. It is available on the Catholic League Web site, catholicleague.org.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
64. Hanna Rosin, “How Hollywood Saved God,” Atlantic Monthly, December 2007.
65. “Pundits Get It Wrong on Boycott,” Catalyst, January-February 2008.
66. “Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Film Trilogy in Doubt after Golden Compass Sequel in Limbo,” telegraph.co.uk, July 18, 2008.
67. “Bishops Pull ‘Golden Compass’ Review,” Catalyst, January-February 2008.
68. William Donohue, “‘Angels & Demons’: More Demonic than Angelic,” a booklet published by the Catholic League, 2009. See catholicleague.org. All of the discussion of Angels & Demons is based on the booklet.
69. Ibid. See also Thomas E. Woods, Jr., How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2005), pp. 4–5.
70. Ibid. See also Rodney Stark, “Catholicism and Science,” Catalyst, September 2004.
71. Ibid. All of this is in the booklet that I wrote.
Chapter 6: Sabotaged by Lawyers
1. David Limbaugh, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2003), pp. 149–150.
2. Philip Hamburger, Separation of Church and State (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 252.
3. Robert Cord, Separation of Church and State: Historical Fact and Current Fiction (New York: Lambeth Press, 1992). See also William Donohue, “Myths About Church-State Separation,” Catalyst, November 2004.
4. John T. McGreevey, Catholicism and American Freedom (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), p. 185.
5. Hugo Black, Jr., My Father: A Remembrance (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 104.
6. Hamburger, Separation of Church and State, p. 449.
7. Ibid., pp. 451–452.
8. T. R. Reid and Marjorie Hyer, “The Catholic Church in America; Lacking the Benefit of State Aid, the Church Struggled and Prospered,” Washington Post, October 7, 1979, p. 12.
9. Robert Bork, “What to Do about the First Amendment,” originally published in Commentary, February, 1995; an excerpt was reprinted in the April 1995 edition of Catalyst.
10. McGreevey, Catholicism and American Freedom, p. 264.
11. Bork, “What to Do about the First Amendment.”
12. For a review of Jacoby’s book and reference to Noonan’s remark, see my article “The Secular Crusade,” Catalyst, October 2004.
13. Patrick M. Garry, Wrestling with God: The Courts’ Tortuous Treatment of Religion (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006), p. 129.
14. Ibid., p. 22.
15. For a review of Garry’s book, see my article “Judicial Jujitsu: How the Courts Treat Religious Liberty,” Catalyst, July-August 2006.
16. Garry, Wrestling with God, p. 22.
17. Ibid., pp. 22–23.
18. William Donohue, The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Press, 1985), p. 306.
19. Ibid., chapter 4. See also my book Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Press, 1994), chapter 3. There is a 2001 edition in paperback that contains a new afterword.
20. Ibid.
21. Mike Branom, “Judge: Woman Can’t Wear Veil in ID Photo,” Associated Press, June 6, 2003.
22. “Americans United Washes the Face of a Bigot,” Catalyst, January-February 2003.
23. Ibid.
24. Charles R. Morris, American Catholic (New York: Times Books, 1997), p. 253.
25. “Americans United Washes the Face of a Bigot.”
26. Jeffrey Rosen, “Is Nothing Secular?,” New York Times Magazine, January 30, 2000, p. 42.
27. “Americans United Responds to The New York Times Magazine Article on Separation of Church and State,” Americans United news release, February 1, 2000.
28. Bruce Felknor, “Questions of Conscience; Religious Bias a No-Show,” Chicago Tribune, October 17, 2004, p. C1.
29. The Catherine Dent video is available from YouTube.
30. “VMI Dinner Prayer Ruled Unconstitutional,” Associated Press Online, April 29, 2003.
31. “California Missions Deserve Federal Funds,” Catholic League news release, November 18, 2004.
32. “Las Cruces ‘Cross’ Logo Protested,” CNSNews, February 18, 2003.
33. Dimitri Cavalli, “By Process of Intimidation,” Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2006, p. W15.
34. Interview on The O’Reilly Factor, transcript, December 19, 2000.
35. “Americans United Files Litigation Challenging Veterans Administration Bias Against Wiccans,” Americans United news release, November 13, 2006.
36. William Donohue, letter to House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee, reprinted in Catalyst, July-August 2005.
; 37. Sandhya Bathija, “Defend the Wall!: Conn. Bishops Rally for Church-State Separation—Sort Of,” Au.org, March 11, 2009.
38. Morgan Bergman, “Americans United for Separation of Church and State,” Organization Trends (a publication of Capital Research Center), December 2002, p. 5.
39. “ACLU and American Atheists Privilege Judaism,” Catholic League news release, December 10, 1998.
40. Tim Bryant, “Judge’s Order Forces St. Ann to Remove Nativity Scene,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 10, 1998, p. A9.
41. “Religious Left Group Sponsors Homosexual Film Festival,” CultureFacts (a publication of the Family Research Council), October 6, 2000.
42. Donohue, Twilight of Liberty, pp. 194–197, 207–210.
43. Ryan Underwood, “Wal-Mart Puts ‘Christmas’ Back into Sales Season,” Tennessean, November 11, 2006, p. A1.
44. Roger Armbrust, “‘Corpus Christi’ Rallies a Go,” Back Stage, October 16, 1998, p. 1.
45. “Arts, First Amendment Supporters Rally at Brooklyn Museum,” People for the American Way news release, October 1, 1999. See also “Church Squeamish in Public Marketplace of Ideas,” American Atheists news release, September 30, 1999.
46. “Catholic League Quotes on ‘Golden Compass,’” Catalyst, January-February 2008.
47. “Speak Out for Atheist Free Speech? Support Kathy Griffin, Target of Catholic League Bullying, Emmy Academy Cowardice?,” American Atheist news release, September 13, 2007.
48. Catholic League’s 2007 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism, p. 4.
49. “AU Bulletin,” Americans United for Separation of Church and State, November 2005.
50. Ryan J. Foley, “Federal Judge Clears Use of Religion in Care for Veterans; Dismisses Atheist Group’s Challenge,” Associated Press, January 10, 2007.
51. Stacy Foster, “Foundation Lobbies Assembly Speaker to End,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 19, 2008, p. B5.
52. “Democracy Threatened in Florida,” Catholic League news release, June 13, 2008.
53. “Politics and Faith,” New York Post, August 30, 2000, p. 44.
54. Jonathan Weisman, “Groups Decry Talk of Faith,” Baltimore Sun, August 30, 2000, p. A1.
55. Julia Duin, “Why Bush Threatens Secularism,” Washington Times, April 14, 2005, p. A1.
56. Ibid.
57. “AU Comments on Congressional Resolution Supporting ‘God Bless America’ in Public Schools,” Americans United news release, October 16, 2001.
58. “Proposed Christian ‘miracle debris’ Cross At Ground Zero Unconstitutional, Inappropriate and ‘Insulting’ said American Atheists,” American Atheists news release, June 14, 2002.
59. For a blurb on the book featuring the endorsements see ffrf.org.
60. Philip Terzian, “Atheist’s End,” Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2001, p. W17.
61. John MacCormack, “The Case of the Headless, Handless Corpse,” Dallas Observer, February 18, 1999.
62. Richard Tregaskis interviewed Madalyn Murray O’Hair in Playboy. It was printed in the October 1965 issue and is available at positiveatheism.com.
63. Alan Wolfe, “Among the Non-Believers,” New Republic, April 12–April 19, 2004, p. 28.
64. “Catholic League Backs ‘Justice Sunday,’” Catalyst, June 2005.
65. Peter Wallsten, “Battle Over Benches Spills Across Pews,” Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2005, p. A10.
66. Frank Rich, “A High-Tech Lynching in Prime Time,” New York Times, April 24, 2005, Section 4, p. 13.
67. “Justice Sunday Reloaded,” New York Times, August 16, 2005, p. A14.
68. “Roberts’ Religion Probed; Catholic Baiting Erupts,” Catalyst, September 2005.
69. “Ripping Roberts on Religion,” Catalyst, September 2005.
70. Ibid.
Chapter 7: Democratic Sabotage
1. Geoffrey Layman, The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), p. 53.
2. Ibid., p. 104.
3. Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, “A ‘Prejudice’ for the Thinking Classes: Media Framing of the New Religious Divide, Political Sophistication, and the Christian Fundamentalist,” paper given at the 2007 Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, New Orleans, January 4–7, 2007.
4. Arthur C. Brooks, Who Really Cares? (New York: Basic Books, 2006), p. 43.
5. Ibid., p. 45.
6. Layman, The Great Divide, p. 184.
7. Jeane Kirkpatrick, The New Presidential Elite: Men and Women in National Politics (New York: Sage, 1976).
8. Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, “Our Secularist Democratic Party,” Public Interest, Fall 2002.
9. Mark Stricherz, Why the Democrats Are Blue (New York: Encounter Books, 2007), pp. 4–5.
10. Ibid., p. 98.
11. Michael Gerson, “A Second Home for Religious Voters?,” Washington Post, November 2, 2007, p. A21.
12. Layman, The Great Divide, pp. 114–115.
13. David Carlin, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat?: How the Party I Loved Became the Enemy of My Religion (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2006), pp. 13–14.
14. Layman, The Great Divide, pp. 117–118.
15. Galston made his remarks at the May 2006 Pew Forum biannual Faith Angle Conference on Religion, Politics and Public Life. See the transcript “Religion, Moral Values and the Democratic Party,” May 22, 2006, at pewforum.org.
16. Layman, The Great Divide, p. 107.
17. Bolce and De Maio, “Our Secularist Democratic Party.”
18. Steven Waldman, “2004: Convention Blog,” beliefnet.com, July 28, 2004.
19. Julia Duin, “Kerry Advisers Tell Hopeful to ‘Keep Cool’ on Religion,” Washington Times, June 18, 2004, p. A1.
20. Rachel Zoll, “GOP Looks for More Jewish Votes for Bush,” Durham Herald-Sun, September 2, 2004.
21. Richard John Neuhaus, “Weird and Wonderful Travels in Evangelicaldom,” First Things, May 2007, p. 59.
22. E. J. Kessler, “Dems’ Talk of ‘Values’ Seen as Risk with Jews,” Forward, November 11, 2004.
23. “How the Jews Vote,” Forward, November 11, 2004.
24. Nathan Diament, “How the GOP Won the Orthodox Vote,” Forward, November 11, 2004.
25. Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, “The (In) Sincere Friends of Religion,” Crisis, January 2007, pp. 13–14.
26. Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, “Secularists, Antifundamentalists, and the New Religious Divide in the American Electorate,” edited by Matthew J. Wilson, From Pews to Polling Places: Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007).
27. Carlin, Can a Catholic Be a Democrat?, p. 57.
28. Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 84.
29. William A. Donohue, Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Press, 1994), p. xv.
30. Ibid., p. xii.
31. Ibid., pp. xvi–xx.
32. Layman, The Great Divide, pp. 119–120.
33. William A. Donohue, “Clinton’s Catholic Problem,” Catalyst, March 1995; it first appeared in the January 1995 edition of Crisis.
34. Ibid.
35. Catholic League news release, July 21, 1993. It was reprinted in the Catholic League Newsletter, September 1993.
36. The Washington Post editorial appeared August 2, 1993. See “Washington Post Says League Is Right,” Catholic League Newsletter, September 1993.
37. Donohue, “Clinton’s Catholic Problem.”
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. “Democratic National Committee Offends Catholics; Terry McAuliffe Implored to Intervene,” Catholic League news release, July 31, 2002.
42. “Democratic National Committee Refuses to Drop Kissling,” Catalyst, November 2002.
43. “Kissling Bares Her Anti-Catholic Stripes; She Furthe
r Shames the DNC,” Catholic League news release, October 15, 2002.
44. “Democratic National Committee Dumps Catholics for a Free Choice,” Catholic League news release, October 28, 2002.
45. “Democratic National Committee Renews Link with Catholics for a Free Choice,” Catholic League news release, October 28, 2002.
46. “Democratic National Committee Sponsors Hard-Core Teen Porn,” Catholic League news release, October 28, 2002.
47. Letter by Joseph M. Birkenstock to William Donohue, October 28, 2002.
48. Letter by William Donohue to Joseph M. Birkenstock, October 29, 2002.
49. “Democratic National Committee Dumps Porn Site But Keeps Anti-Catholic One,” Catholic League news release, October 29, 2002.
50. “Catholic League to DNC: We’ll Be Your Worst Nightmare in 2004,” Catalyst, December 2002.
51. “DNC’s New Website Devoid of Anti-Catholic Link,” Catholic League news release, April 13, 2004.
52. “Kerry’s Religion Outreach Director Quickly Silenced,” Catalyst, July-August 2004.
53. Amy Sullivan, “The Dems Finally Get Religion,” time.com, February 14, 2008.
54. “Kerry’s Religion Outreach Director Quickly Silenced.”
55. “DNC’s New Religion Advisor Wants ‘Under God’ Out of the Pledge,” Catholic League news release, August 2, 2004.
56. “DNC’s Religion Advisor Says: ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ Means Paying Taxes,” Catholic League news release, August 3, 2004.
57. “DNC’s Religion Advisor Unmasked,” Catholic League news release, August 4, 2004.
58. Ibid.
59. “DNC’s Religion Advisor Quits,” Catholic League news release, August 5, 2004.
60. “Huge Victory Scored; Edwards’ Bigots Resign,” Catalyst, March 2007; for the latter statement in its entirety, see her Pandagon blog site and Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Unholy Hire,” National Review Online, February 6, 2007.
61. Ibid. See also McEwan’s blog posting of February 21, 2006.
62. McEwan, “On Cunts,” shakespearessister.blogspot, November 29, 2006.
63. “John Edwards Tolerates Anti-Catholicism,” Catholic League news release, February 8, 2007.
64. “Edwards Blogger Strikes Again: They Must Be Fired Now!,” Catholic League news release, February 12, 2007.
65. “Campaign Blogger for John Edwards Quits After Outrage Over ‘Anti-Catholic’ Comments,” Associated Press, February 13, 2007.