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Catholic Bashers Spared Imus Treatment

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the way Catholic bashers are treated as compared to Don Imus:

"Two years ago, Penn Jillette (of the comedy team Penn and Teller) went on Showtime calling Mother Teresa ‘Mother F-ing Teresa' and called the nuns who worked with her ‘f-ing c-ts.' Showtime is owned by Viacom and that is why I wrote to its chief, Sumner Redstone, to register a complaint. He wrote back extolling the merits of ‘artistic freedom' and ‘tolerance.' Last year, on Viacom-owned CBS radio, Jillette said Mother Teresa ‘had this weird kink that I think was sexual,' compared the saintly nun to Charles Manson and said she ‘got her [sexual] kicks watching people suffer and die.' Again, nothing was done about this.

"In 2005, Bill Maher went on HBO at the time of the death of Pope John Paul II and said, ‘For those who could not make the funeral, the Vatican has asked that in lieu of flowers, just stop touching your d-k.' He also said that the whole story of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the Resurrection was ‘grafted from paganism'; he ended by mocking the death of the pope and the upcoming conclave. The letter I received from HBO said that ‘it's a free country, and people are free to say silly things — even on HBO.'

"Right before Easter, the Catholic League protested the chocolate Jesus with his genitals exposed that was to be shown in the art gallery of the Roger Smith Hotel in midtown Manhattan (located on street level, the public was invited to eat him). Air America radio co-host Cenk Uygur, writing on ‘The Huffington Post,' said, ‘So is the argument that Jesus didn't have a d-k? Or were people offended because it was too big? Too Small? Too immaculate? Not immaculate enough?' Regarding Imus's remark, Uygur called it ‘derogatory and insulting.'

"Similarly, Joan Walsh on Salon.com said the chocolate Jesus was not ‘a big deal,' and advised people not to go see it if they didn't like it. She has now called on Imus to be fired. Even New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said ‘don't pay any attention' to the chocolate Jesus, but he now finds it necessary to brand Imus' comments ‘repugnant.'

"In other words, Catholic bashing is humorous and an exercise in liberty. Racism is awful. Bigotry, then, is neither good nor bad — it just depends who the target is."

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5 responses to “Catholic Bashers Spared Imus Treatment”

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    I had this exact same thought when I heard that NBC was cancelling the Imus show.  Of course, his remarks were deplorable, but why is it that these types of remarks are tolerated when they target Catholics?

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    why do these type of remarks get tolerated when they target Catholics? maybe because we Catholics don't stand up and shout, or at least do something about it. It needs more than one voice saying it to really get heard. Maybe we realy need to better understand the biblical language of "meekness" rather than act like the current dictionary definition.

     

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    I remember thinking about the uprage over the Muhammad cartoon a few years ago "How would I feel if someone mocked my savior?"  … oh wait, people do that all the time!

     

    At least we were able to keep NBC from showing Madonna mocking the crucifixion …

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    God loves you .

    We must remember that the powers-that-be of culture – sophomoric when not abominably hedonistic when not full-out nihilistic – dictate who the PC ‘victims’ are – and suffer no qualms about victimizing who they don’t call victims. Notice what they did to three college athletes in North Carolina. Lord knows what these foul arbiters might have said of any one of the young men if he was a devout Catholic.

    In their fevered moments, they may consider any and all religious folk ‘victims’ of religion. But, of those most visible, we are to be demonized and marginalized.

    But, then, Christ gave a whole Beatitude to this manifestation of evil. And, of plain and simple fact, these beasts of the Beast give us free rein to become exemplars of exemplars. For, pointing their fingers at us, our visibility becomes a point of persecuted words, but also spiritual definition, description and, above all, images of God.

    Let them laugh – we know Who fosters just what is laughed at last, and infinitely of a jolly manner, and eternally.

    Remember, I love you, too

    Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ,

    Pristinus Sapienter

    (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or … yahoo.com)

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    PS,

    You are not wrong, about the powers-that-be,  but that does not mean we have to be silent.

    I submit that the attendees at the Duke lacrosse players' underage drinking party featuring a stripper would, please Lord, exclude a devout Catholic.

    PTR!

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