"And not just atheists," said Bill Donohue during an August 31st Fox News interview. "I’m talking about people who are disaffected Catholics and Protestants who are mutineers within their own religion, trying to change things." It wasn't just "militant, dogmatic" atheists and "disaffected" Christians that the Catholic League president complained about either. Donohue also had a few choice words for magicians Penn & Teller whose Showtime series, Penn & Teller: Bullsh*t!, just ran an episode on the history of the Catholic Church. "This was the most Nazi-like assault,” Donohue said. “The most unrelenting half an hour of bashing I’ve ever seen.”Bill Donohue made his comments on the Fox Network show Fox & Friends. He appeared there in order to promote his new book, Secular Sabotage: How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America.
The Catholic League is an advocacy group that, according to its website, "defends the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination," and Bill Donohue, who has been its president since 1993, has been zealous in the execution of its mission. Hollywood is a common target of his spleen and he frequently criticizes personalities like Bill Mahrer, Marilyn Manson and Joan Osborne, television shows like Nothing Sacred and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as movies like the 1999 fantasy Dogma and 2007's The Golden Compass.
Donohue's own comments have stirred up a lot of controversy too, as in 2004 when, in defense of Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ, he said, "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It's not a secret, OK? And I'm not afraid to say it. That's why they hate this movie. It's about Jesus Christ, and it's about truth. It's about the Messiah".
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Good grief, how paranoid can he be? And what hatred this good Christian man espouses while doing his work.
"defends the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination,"
Uhhh... why should Catholics get to participate in American life "without defamation or discrimination" while at the same time continue as one of the most discriminatory bunches in the country? If they didn't discriminate against large swaths of our population, they wouldn't be so picked on themselves.
The Catholics have the same right to defend themselves, their beliefs and their institutions as any other American. That should go without saying. How they go about doing it though, is sometimes questionable. Here's something from an article on a site called "Catholics for Choice":
'In Donohue’s own words, the Catholic League specializes in “public embarrassment of public figures who have earned our wrath.” In addition to embarrassment, the organization uses intimidation, bullying and distortion to suppress critics of the Catholic church, the Vatican, and the church’s many controversial policies.'
using the victim card again (boring)
If Penn & Teller had made fun of Judaism in such a disrespectful manner you can bet that they would have been terminated from the show and would have difficulty in finding subsequent work.
Well, the guy may be a nutter and paranoid, but I must say he got that right, we are out to get him. Ok at least most of the atheists I know are "out to get them" as we should be. I'm with Pat Condell when it comes to having a fight on our hands and having been in the military already....Yep, I'm gonna get 'em..
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