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Boo-Hoo, Bill Donahue

There’s a fantastic seen in the underrated gem of a film, The Ref, where Kevin Spacey’s character finally stands up for himself and stands up to his bitch of a mother and tells her, “You know what I’m going to get you next Christmas, Mom? A big wooden cross, so that every time you feel unappreciated for your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it.”

Bill Donahue needs a big wooden cross.

Last weekend, comedienne Kathy Griffin made a “controversial” award acceptance speech when she made the following joke, “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. Suck it, Jesus, this award is my god now!” I’m not a big Kathy Griffin fan (in that I find her nasal delivery and stale jokes not really to my taste) but this got a chuckle from me.

Well along comes Bill Donahue of The Catholic League and he’s pissed. Apparently there weren’t any starving children to feed or charity to be done and he turned his wrath towards Griffin and comparing her comment to Imus’ “nappy-headed hos” debacle and Michael Richards n-word outrage. He went on to say that if she had directed her comments towards Jews or Hilary Clinton, she’d be in hot water, but because it’s Christians, no one cares. When the host asks Donahue if her comments are as bad as racism, he says it’s worse because it hurts “believers,”.

Sometimes I avoid posts like this because Donahue’s douchebaggery should be obvious to anyone with an even partially-functional brain. To begin, Christians haven’t been persecuted for about 1500 years. Yes, they had violence among themselves during the Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Inquisition, but unless they were going to a foreign culture and actively trying to introduce their religion only to be met with opposition (off the top of my head, I’m thinking of 19th century Japan), Christians have been the majority. Guess what, Bill. Majorities can’t be persecuted. That’s what’s awesome about being the majority.

Second, as the counter-point guest mentions, Griffin wasn’t bashing Catholics but bashing Jesus because he didn’t help her win the award. Jesus was actively campaigning for Antiques Roadshow.

On the one hand, I don’t doubt that Donahue is a true believer and is truly offended. On the other hand, he clearly has a need for attention and since there are slightly bigger issues concerning our country than “Are Catholics Feeling Okay?”, he needs to capitalize on this offense, the main-stream media needs to fill air-time, and I was bored and wanted to do a blog post. Win-win-win.

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