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"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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1) Catholic League President Bill Donohue
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