OPEN LETTER TO BARBARA WALTERS

Catholic League ^ | September 28, 2005 | Bill Donohue

[NYer]

September 28, 2005 

OPEN LETTER TO BARBARA WALTERS 

The following is Bill Donohue’s letter to ABC personality Barbara Walters:

 

It seems you have a problem with the Catholic Church.  On the September 22 episode of “The View,” you read a selection from the Catholic Catechism on homosexuality that you found disagreeable.  To be precise, you wondered aloud what the Church meant by saying homosexuality was an “objective disorder.”  To the approval of your co-hosts, you further added that celibacy was “unnatural” or “supposedly” so.  Moreover, co-hosts Meredith Vieira, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar piled on by speaking in the most disparaging way about the Catholic Church’s teachings on women, celibacy and homosexuality.  As the executive producer of this show, you watched approvingly.

 

You have crossed the line.  You and your friends wouldn’t dare read selections from the Torah or the Koran and then castigate Jews and Muslims.  Nor would you ridicule the sexual practices of Orthodox Jews or Muslims during Ramadan.  That’s because anti-Catholicism finds a ready audience in this country today, and it is because of people like you that the bigots are so fat.  You feed them well, Ms. Walters.

 

Sadly, you are no stranger to this issue.  On the July 20 episode of “Good Morning America,” you dipped into America’s ugly history of anti-Catholicism by trying to establish a nexus between John Roberts’ Roman Catholicism and his ability to render an independent judgment from the bench.  After noting his religion, you asked, “Do you think it might affect him as a Supreme Court Justice?”  Yet when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was being considered for the high court, you never once cited her Jewishness as a possible impediment to clear thinking.  No, it took a Roman Catholic to make you nervous.

 

We urge our members to contact her by phone at 212-456-7050; fax her at 212-456-0951; write her at “The View,” 320 W. 66^th St., Bsmt Level, NY, NY 10023; or provide feedback at http://www.abc.go.com/daytime/theview/mail/walters.html.

 

The Catholic League is the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. It defends individual Catholics and the institutional Church from defamation and discrimination.
 

 

 

[NYer]

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[AliVeritas]

God Bless him!

[.cnI redruM]

I well-earned rebuke. Barbara Walters has been despicable for decades.

[Bahbah]

No, it took a Roman Catholic to make you nervous.

Good!

[RexBeach]

Good for Bill. Ms. Walters is a snob and a bigot. So are the rest of those cows mentioned in his letter.

I am astonished that my mother enjoys watching that show.

[edcoil]

Once Muslims embrace homosexuality and jews do and american indians do and india-indians do and china accept it maybe we need to look at it but, 98% of the world opposes it.

Only in the tiny population of liberal America is this acceptable. Any they throw it their views into the world face and world just seems to take it.

[DesignerChick]

Bravo.

[DesignerChick]

Bravo.

[blackie]

Bill Donohue is right on and I'm not Catholic.

Homosexual behavior is not normal or natural, people are not born homosexual it's a learned activity and indulged in by choice.

[libs_kma]

I'm glad the Catholic Church is finally fighting back on loads of crap like Baba Wawa and her ilk.

It was great when that Church un-invited hill-da-beast to speak a few months ago.

[.cnI redruM]

No, the world doesn't just take it. Osuama Bin Ladin cited our cultural decadence as one of the reasons he perpetrated 9/11.

[massgopguy]

I wonder if Elisabeth had the courage of her convictions to speak out in Theology class while at Boston College?

[Retired AF Pilot]

Unfortunately you forgot to mention socialized Europe where queers flourish and it is in your face almost as much as San Francisco.

[BLASTER 14]

I find it hard to belive that PHIL DONOHUE, the great "progressive" nay-sayer, would say anything against the liberal stance that any idea of the loony-left is bad.

Or maybe I misread his statement.

[Dancing Jane]

You're thinking of Phil Donahue. This letter is by Bill Donohue.

[caisson71]

Isn't BRAbra dead yet from all that BOTOX?

[Lady Jag]

ON CALL

[AZ_Cowboy]

That would be Bill Donohue of the Catholic League as opposed to Phil Donahue, of the failed MSNBC show.

Bill's a straight-up guy and worked very hard defending Mel Gibson from attacks when "The Passion" was released.

[pa mom]

This was awful. BW, not the response!