Editing Bernie Ward (section)

==Personal beliefs==

===Religion===
On March 16, 1996, Ward discussed the confrontational tactics of the group [[ACT UP]] at a [[mosque]], describing the group as a "collection of non-partisan individuals committed to direct action to end [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]]."<ref name="CAT_100606">{{cite news | title=Bernie Ward show defames Catholicism | first=Aleza | last=Goldsmith | date=May 1996 | publisher=Catalyst | url=http://www.catholicleague.org/catalyst/1996_catalyst/596catalyst.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060206141823/http://www.catholicleague.org/catalyst/1996_catalyst/596catalyst.htm | archive-date=2006-02-06}}</ref> He stated that "homosexuals had a good cause to make (against the Catholic Church)," and claimed that the church encouraged [[homophobia]] and homophobic actions. The church denied this, stating that they did not encourage homophobia or resistance against [[Homosexuality|homosexuals]], but merely taught that homosexual sex, because it is outside a marriage between a man and a woman, was immoral.

On December 9, 1996, Ward stated that Christianity was "morally superior" to [[Judaism]] because it was based on unconditional forgiveness. He offered apologies on his radio show on December 17 and again on the following day, the first being dismissed by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the second being accepted. Ward insisted that he did not have a problem with any individual religion, only with [[Fundamentalism|fundamentalists]].<ref name="JNW_092101">{{cite news | title=KGO Radio's Bernie Ward apologizes to Jews | first=Aleza | last=Goldsmith | date=21 September 2001 | publisher=Jewish News Weekly | url=http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/16906/edition_id/332/format/html/displaystory.html }}</ref> He later compared fundamentalist [[Orthodox Judaism]] with [[Nazism]] on September 12, 2001, but offered an apology the following day.<ref name="JNW_092101" />

===Iraq war===
On September 30, 2002, Ward appeared on [[CNN]] with [[Wolf Blitzer]] and discussed possible military action against [[Iraq]]. He commented about [[Saddam Hussein]]: "Hussein has not shown any threat to anyone" and that the "[[Kurds]] were prospering very well in the north even as [[al-Qaeda]] has used some of their connections with the Kurds."<ref name="CNN_TRANS_093002">{{cite news | title=Radio Talk Show Hosts Debate Iraq | publisher=CNN | date=30 September 2002 |  url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/30/se.02.html }}</ref>

===Causes===
He led a pledge drive for ''Thanksgiving Charities'' every year, which supported four charities in the San Francisco Bay Area:<ref name="KGO_BIO" /> Sacred Heart Community Services in San Jose, St. Anthony's Foundation in San Francisco, St. Vincent De Paul dining room in Oakland, and Fresh Start in Walnut Creek. The charity drive began in the late 1980s and raised over $4 million in the following decades. Ward was also a participant in the KGO leukemia cure-a-thon, which has raised over $13 million for research into leukemia and lymphoma causes.