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The Catholic League Can Suck It: ABC/Disney Renews The Real O’Neals Sitcom For Second Season

Remember back in February when Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue launched his campaign against The Real O’Neals with a full-page New York Times ad which compared Dan Savage to David Duke? Remember Donohue’s avalanche of daily tweets calling on advertisers to drop the show? Remember all those OUTRAGED asterisk-laden boycotts threats from One Million Moms? Well, they may now commence …

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Catholic League’s Bill Donohue: Watching Gay Dodgeball Is Definitely Better Than Watching Gay Wrestling

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue today took a break from a streak of more than a dozen posts calling for boycotts of various ABC/Disney advertisers to express surprise that there’s such a thing as a gay dodgeball league, as was depicted on last night’s episode of The Real O’Neals. He writes: It makes no more sense to be proud of …

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Catholic League Demands Disney’s Board Of Directors Act To Cancel ABC’s “Anti-Catholic” The Real O’Neals

The Catholic League today announced the next step in their “campaign to kill” ABC’s The Real O’Neals. Via press release: Today, we are contacting the eleven members of the Disney board of directors asking them to use their influence in cancelling the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals” (ABC is owned by Disney). The show is based on a virulent anti-Catholic, …

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Catholic League Targets “Anti-Catholic Bigot” Real O’Neals Star Martha Plimpton: ABC, Kill This Show

Via press release from loony tunes Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue: Beginning today, the Catholic League is launching a new campaign against the ABC show, “The Real O’Neals.” Our goal is to kill the show. Thus far, we have (a) published a New York Times op-ed page ad against the show (b) implored our members to email Disney-ABC executive Ben …

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Tony Perkins Vs The Real O’Neals

“What does an X-rated gay sex columnist have in common with Walt Disney? Nothing. And that’s exactly the problem. Most Americans have probably never heard of Dan Savage, but unfortunately, that’s all about to change this fall. Despite massive outcry — thousands of phone calls, emails, and petition signers — Disney’s ABC is taking its LGBT activism to new lows …

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TRAILER: The Real O’Neals

Via IndieWire: Just yesterday we reported that ABC had picked up Dan Savage’s sitcom “The Real O’Neals,” and now we already have a trailer… That looks pretty darn promising. Focusing on a contemporary Catholic family with a whole lotta skeletons in their closet, “The Real O’Neals” offers up the first network TV sitcom protagonist that’s a gay teenager (Noah Galvin) …

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ABC Picks Up Dan Savage Series

All that foot-stomping by One Million Moms and the rest of Teabagistan was for naught, as ABC has ordered the first season of The Real O’Neals. Via Deadline: Along with the six drama series pickups, ABC has ordered its first new comedy series for next season: single-camera The Muppets, from The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady & Bob Kushell; …

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