Bill Donohue is the right-wing fruitcake, stuck in the Middle Ages, who heads up the Catholic League, an organization ready to take the Roman Church back to the good old days when heretics were burned at the stake, God was in heaven, Galileo was denounced, and the Pope's word was law for all.The Catholic League is up in arms these days because "More than 60 organizations have issued a 55-page report advising the incoming Obama administration on the need to provide more money for abortion-related services. ... Significantly, it endorses the Freedom of Choice Act, the most radical abortion-rights bill ever proposed."
Oh boy. Those bad pro-choice people are persecuting Christians right and left!
Donohue is irate. My God, this is an "assault on religious liberty." Donohue says "From the very beginning, the pro-abortion industry has not only opposed any religion which is pro-life, it has adopted a confrontational approach."
The "pro-abortion industry"? Sounds like the Mafia. But Donohue, being a "good" Catholic would probably have less problem with the Mafia, cf. "The Godfather."
Donohue goes on to attack those "religions" which support a woman's right to choose: Reform Judaism, Unitarian/Universalists, and "an anti-Catholic front group, Catholics for Choice," all of which have signed on in support of the Freedom of Choice Act.
The "passion for abortion rights" among these groups, says Donohue, "is so extreme that it eclipses any interest in the religious liberty rights of others."
In other words, Donohue and his cohorts believe they have the right to impose their particular religious beliefs (re: abortion) on the population as a whole. That "right" is what "religious liberty" means. If they are denied their "right" to write the laws for all the rest of us, that is to deny them their religious liberty.
How screwed is that?
Donohue, the Catholic League and all the rest of the extremist anti-abortion groups can believe any damn thing they want. THAT is their "religious liberty"! They do not, however, have the "right" to impose their beliefs on the nation as a whole. That is religious totalitarianism!
Oh yeah, Donohue is also a homophobe, hates all things he thinks impinge negatively on his Catholic conscience, and goes crazy if the Eucharist Host is "desecrated."
Media Matters has more: Donohue says "People don't trust Muslims when it comes to liberty." The gay lifestyle is a lifestyle of death and the gay community should "apologize to straight people for all the damage they have done." Catholics who voted for John Kerry because they agreed with him on abortion have cooperated "in evil." "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. ... Hollywood likes anal sex. They like to see the public square without nativity scenes. ... They like abortions."
Read the entire Media Matters' article here.
Another take on Donohue at Take Action here.
Meanwhile, go jump, Donohue!
