"He was a true friend. I can't say we were close friends—not many can. But he was a true friend, always answering my letters, giving me recommendations when I needed them."
In a message posted on Facebook, they warned the management that it had 24 hours to respond or they "will do whatever they feel it's right for them and nobody will stop."
"And I call them out on it. Not because of what was said about me. But it's just simply wrong for ABC to have a television program that expresses that kind of religious intolerance."