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Jay Leno and Anti-Catholic Jokes

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Date Posted on this Site

August 1, 2007

Publication

The Tonight Show

Publication Date

June and July 2007

My Response Letter

Mr. Jeff Zucker, President
NBC Entertainment
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

Dear Mr. Zucker:

I recognize that anyone's foibles may become fodder for a Tonight Show monologue or interview. However, to sully all priests by presenting them as pedophiles on six occasions over the past five weeks is not humor but a concerted attack on the clergy.

Despite evidence that proves sex abuse problems within other Christian denominations are comparable, and in many cases, greater than those in the Catholic church (see attached), Mr. Leno continues to single out Catholic priests as the subject of his contemptible quips.

There is no topical reason for Mr. Leno's jibes, which leads me and others to believe that he and the Tonight Show possess a deep-seated anti-Catholic animus.

I urge you to put an end Mr. Leno's blatantly anti-clerical jokes.

Sincerely,
Jason Gennaro
Aurora, Canada

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