Penn & Teller episode on Catholicism draws outrage

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Bill Donohue, a man with an internet connection who calls himself head of the Catholic League, is getting attention from this latest PR stunt with an ad in Variety:

On August 27, Showtime, owned by CBS, will feature a vicious assault on Catholics. In the season finale of Penn & Teller's show, they "take on the secretive inner world of The Vatican, the holy city of Catholicism and home of the Pope." How do we know it will defame Catholics? Because on the show's website, it says so: There is a Showtime Advisory for "Graphic Language, Adult Content."
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CBS/Showtime needs to send Penn & Teller a message and let them know that they have crossed the line for the last time. This should be their final season. We know that they've been told before to drop the Catholic bashing, and yet they persist. By doing so, Penn & Teller have effectively stuck their middle finger right in the eye of CBS.
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Full: Catholic League Press Release


You can read about Penn & Teller's show and see previews at Showtime's website:

http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do
 
I like how an organization that turns a blind eye to the child rape that occurrs within their own Church has the temerity to get offended when someone "bashes" them.
 
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johnny karate said:
I like how an organization that turns a blind eye to the child rape that occurrs within their own Church has the temerity to get offended when someone "bashes" them.
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It's not the Church getting offended; it's the Catholic League. Which, as Kathy Griffin noted, is essentially Bill Donohue, a computer, and a mailing list. Donohue doesn't speak for Catholics any more than I speak for atheists.
 
I was about to say Bill Donohue ain't the Pope. What the heck is the Catholic League anyway? Is it a pro or an amateur whining association?
 
From the press release:

There is no legitimate place for this kind of frontal assault on any demographic group.
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Unless that group is the gays:

[Donahue] has also spoken of the crisis over sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests as "a homosexual scandal, not a pedophilia scandal".
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or the Jews:​

"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.".
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Bill Donohue in a nut shell (pun intended) states that "atheists are less than human". How he comes to that conclusion is a result of the template of the religious community as being judge, jury and executioner.
I find his statements regarding atheists offensive. You might find me picking apart religion and debunking it, but I would stop at saying "a religious person is less than human"
It is one thing to disagree with someones belief system or lack of, it becomes personal to equate atheists with a one celled amoebe.
 
My favorite part is, "... Penn & Teller have effectively stuck their middle finger right in the eye of CBS."

Let me ask: Who on Earth cares that CBS employees are insulting CBS? If he's trying to warn CBS mgmt, I think they can watch out for themselves, which means watching the balance sheet.

Bill D is quite ham-handed.
 
So his evidence that they're "bashing" Catholics is:

There is a Showtime Advisory for "Graphic Language, Adult Content."
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Isn't "Graphic Language" and "Adult Content" pretty much par for the course with BS?
 
Bill and his League of subordinate gentlemen are stupid. However, in this case, I'm sure there will be plenty of things that will offend Catholics in the episode. That said, perhaps he should actually watch the show first, and then he can be specific with his complaints.
 
Dunstan said:
It's not the Church getting offended; it's the Catholic League. Which, as Kathy Griffin noted, is essentially Bill Donohue, a computer, and a mailing list. Donohue doesn't speak for Catholics any more than I speak for atheists.
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This is totally my point of view...

I agree with everything that Dunstan says...

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johnny karate said:
I like how an organization that turns a blind eye to the child rape that occurrs within their own Church has the temerity to get offended when someone "bashes" them.
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I am not sure putting the WHOLE Catholics church hierarchy in the same sack is correct. After all I am pretty sure if you ask individual diocese or priest they would be deeply offended. That said a good deal of the bashing *IS* earned. BUT that they have done bad stuff does not mean they lost all right to be offended, as a group. It would be like , atheist lose right to get offended because some which might be qualified as atheist (like stalin for example) killed a lot of people. I am not sure anybody want to go that road because most major groups (if not all) at some point probably lost the right to be offended due to some action from some (minority/majority) of individual of the group.

off topic , but the picture of your avatar is disturbing :P from where does it come from ?
 
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