Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $42,690
52%  
Woo hoo!! And now only $240 to reach 53%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: byebyebob

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Comedian Bob Newhart cancels show for Catholic group after gay activist pressure

    12/21/2013 6:00:29 PM PST · by Morgana · 69 replies
    Life Site News ^ | Patrick B. Craine
    ORLANDO, FL, December 20, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Famed comedian Bob Newhart has canceled a headline show at a conference for Catholic business leaders after a homosexual activist group ran a campaign portraying the organizers as “anti-gay.” After learning of the 84-year-old comedian’s scheduled appearance at the Legatus Summit in Orlando on February 6, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) began urging him last week to back out. Activists also organized a petition at Faithful America that garnered 17,000 signatures. Jim Wallace (Smithsonian Institution) Legatus, which was begun by Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan in 1987 to network Catholic...