WaPo Allows Catholic League's Donohue To Pen Unhinged Rant

Bill Donohue is the president of the Catholic League, an organization that hysterically goes on the warpath against any alleged slight or insult or criticism. Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek, an ostensibly responsible adult who, with Sally Quinn, edits a column called "On Faith" for the Washington Post, which purports to be "a conversation on religion and politics." Donohue joined that conversation today and basically started speaking in tongues. Forked, incoherent tongues.

Did you know that "secular saboteurs" want to "tear down the economic structure of capitalism and replace it with socialism, and eventually communism?" They do, and they will do so by killing Jesus, and letting the Marquis de Sade have his way with the corpse, or something. And all of this perversion will be made into a movie, by Roman Polanski:

There was a time when Hollywood made reverential movies about Christianity. But those days are long gone. Now they just insult. And when someone finally makes a film that makes Christians proud, he is run out of town. Were it not for Mel Gibson, there would have been no "Passion of the Christ." But for every Harvey Weinstein who likes to bash Catholics, there is always someone else waiting in the wings to do the same.

Yes, it was just terrible the way Mel Gibson was "run out of town" with the assload of millions of dollars he made from his movie, Plan 9 From Nazareth, which was about Jesus and which should have allowed Mel Gibson the right to drunkenly denigrate Jews and call people "sugartits," just like the Bible says.

Anyway, Donohue is pretty sure that his side will win the culture war, ban gayness, and finally, maybe, get a Christian elected president and/or Christmas recognized as an important holiday:

The culture war is up for grabs. The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they're too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids. Time, it seems, is on the side of the angels.

This more or less explains why Donohue's house smells vaguely of dog shit.

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Comments

[Shwazy]

12:17 PM on 10/22/2009

"The culture war is up for grabs. The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they're too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids. Time, it seems, is on the side of the angels."

If this is God's will, i'm with satan.

Seriously, why would anyone align themselves with this point of view? It is clearly fueled by hate and suspicion, and stands in opposition to compassion. Jesus would throw this man out of the temple were he here today.

Did this guy never read the bible? Is he insane?

[lungfish]

11:59 AM on 10/22/2009

Christian conservative values... and they wonder why I rudely run them off my porch when they show up to proselytize...

[DesertRatzoRizzo]

10:04 AM on 10/22/2009

William Donohue is the reincartion of Father Charles Coughlin, the infamous right wing radio priest of the 1930's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin

[mcmutter]

07:28 AM on 10/22/2009

Unhinged....sums him up perfectly !

[eShirl]

07:24 AM on 10/22/2009

Every time he's on TV, I can't help but think how much he reminds me of Archie Bunker.

[KIVPossum]

06:09 AM on 10/22/2009

Progressive agnostics continue to breed like rabbits. We just use birth control.

[mikey2]

11:30 PM on 10/21/2009

Fr. Donohue know's how to rant, don't t he? Good old fashion old-school social conservative hate and fear. Classic! Absolutely made my day! You don't see us liberal-socio-fascists sliced into so many distinct and really well-defined categories very often. Obviously, Donohue has been carrying around this load of parnoid anger for quite awhile. A man has really gotta put a lot of thought into a rant like this.

[mizerello]

10:08 PM on 10/21/2009

What is going on at the Washington Post? I canceled my subscription months ago and the only time I visit their site is when there is a link from this site or others. It's turned into the Washington Times Lite and I wonder if they believe by shifting to the hard right they can save the paper? If that's their plan, the paper will be gone in 2 years. They used to have a balanced opinion roster. Now, it's overflowing with neocons and the few "liberals" left, with one or two exceptions, are NOT liberal. I'm sure the Post considers Broder a liberal. He's not. He shifted years ago. Except for Dionne, there's really no true liberal at the Post any longer. And the "journalists" who work at the paper frame every story in a right of center if not baldly right wing manner.

[dokbob]

07:59 PM on 10/21/2009

Another exemplary Christian.

[Hirnlego]

07:12 PM on 10/21/2009

The catholic league should consider another spokesperson..

[NickConrad]

06:34 PM on 10/21/2009

It really is a shame that more people aren't reverential of sky monsters.

[bmora]

05:17 PM on 10/21/2009

"The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they're too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids."

Sounds like the premise for Idiocracy.

[taddles]

05:08 PM on 10/21/2009

What an ignoramus. This is the public voice of Catholicism? How sad.

[grumbles]

03:00 PM on 10/21/2009

This man is singularly responsible for the recent exodus of Catholics from the Church. He has long been an apologist for wayward priests, a defender of the Church heirarchy over the Church faithful, has time and again denegraded women, is Benedicts right hand man in the US and has utterly NO idea about what he speaks. He is a blowhard, a hired gun, an individual so sure of his own salvation, he has lost his reason. Pay no attention to him. Like all things Catholic, he will pass.

[normathumb]

02:28 PM on 10/21/2009

The funny thing is, if you read Bill's editorial, the second to last paragraph sounds suspiciously like the multiculturalism he decries. What Bill is really steamed about is the diminishment of northern European cultural dominence. He has no problem with minorities as long as they recognize the cultural superiority of Northern Europeans and their descendants.
Somewhere along the way, Bill decided he knows what a "true" Catholic is and has made it his mission to inflict his vision on the rest of us. Few people agree, Bill and fewer care what you think. You shouldn't pretend to be better then the others of us sinners. It is most unbecoming of a Christian, Catholic or otherwise. Of course, I understand you don't think Protestants are real Christians just as many Protestants don't think Catholics are, either. Opinions are like that. Everybody has them. One thing for certain, whether we like the fashion or not, the pope has a fine taylor.