http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-02-15/#tv3Catholic League Head Blasts Olympics Telecast, David E. Kelley Catholic League President William Donohue has castigated NBC for not mentioning the Shroud of Turin during its coverage of the Turin Winter Olympics. In an interview with USA Today, Donohue remarked, "If you asked the average American to name something about Turin, Italy, they'd name the Shroud. ... It's like having the Olympics in Fort Knox and not mentioning gold." NBC Olympics producer David Neal said that NBC is working on a feature about the Shroud, but noted that it is cutting back on all features in order to concentrate on the contests. Donohue also issued a news release blasting Tuesday night's episode of David E. Kelley's Boston Legal about a teenage girl who becomes pregnant after being raped and wants to sue a Catholic hospital for denying her emergency contraception. Kelley's negative treatment of Catholicism, Donohue wrote, "is so well known that we have a big fat file on him." He maintained that in this instance Kelley "has decided to hook up with the equally anti-Catholic folks at the ACLU," whose Pennsylvania office is providing a discussion guide about the episode. I can't beleive they're complaining already!! First, the Olympics are only about 4 days old and I'm sure NBC will have a piece on the Shroud of TORINO (or is that Turin?).
Second, more and more scholars are actually finding the shroud a hoax. I watched piece on one of those brainy TV channels about the Shroud and there are some critics who think that it was Leonardo DaVinci who actually painted the shroud. Someone made a model of the body that would have had to been burried in that shroud and the body came out as some stunted growth man with very broad shoulders and flat face head.
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