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Bill Donohue

January 01, 1970

"William Donohue" redirects here. For the New York assemblyman, see William J. Donohue. For the Canadian jockey and trainer, see William Donohue (jockey). For people with a similar name, see William Donahue (disambiguation).

William Anthony Donohue (born July 18, 1947) is an American Roman Catholic layman who has been president of the Catholic League in the United States since 1993.[1]

Bill Donohue
Born
William Anthony Donohue

(1947-07-18) July 18, 1947 (age 76)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York University (PhD)
OccupationPresident of the Catholic League

Life and career edit

Donohue was born in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. He began his teaching career in the 1970s working at St. Lucy's School in Spanish Harlem. In 1977, he took a teaching position at La Roche College in McCandless, Pennsylvania. In 1980, he received his doctorate in sociology from New York University.[2] Donohue is divorced and has two adult children from his marriage.[3]

His first book was The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union. He became associated with the conservative Heritage Foundation, where he is an adjunct scholar.

While Donohue was in college in New York, Virgil C. Blum, a Jesuit at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded the Catholic League to counter anti-Catholicism in American culture. Blum died in 1990; in 1993, Donohue became the organization's director.[citation needed]

Donohue publishes The Catalyst, the Catholic League's journal. He formerly served on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars.[4] He serves on the board of advisers of the Washington Legal Foundation, the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Catholics United for the Faith, the Ave Maria Institute, the Christian Film and Television Commission and Catholic War Veterans. He received the 2005 St. Thomas More Award for Catholic Citizenship from Catholic Citizens of Illinois.[5]

In 2022, Donohue was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Ave Maria School of Law.[citation needed] He also gave the commencement address to the graduating class.[6]

Activism edit

Donohue campaigns against what he perceives as the discrimination and defamation of Catholics and Catholicism. In doing so he has targeted a diverse array of organizations and individuals in entertainment, politics, and the arts. His work has produced divergent assessments. Legatus Magazine, the monthly publication of an organization for Catholic business executives, wrote:[7]

At 66 years old, Bill Donohue might just be the hardest-working man in the Catholic Church—with the exception of Pope Francis, of course. Not only has the New York City native been at the helm of the Catholic League for a full 20 years, but he is busy writing a new book—while regularly riding to the defense of Catholics across the country beset by a hostile culture and media.

USA Today once characterized Donohue, reporting that, "Donohue serves as Santa to his membership of 350,000 and Scrooge to those who run afoul of him."[8] In 2000, an editorial in America, a Jesuit magazine, noted Donohue's bi-partisanship and willingness to break ranks with Republicans who aligned with him on most issues: "once he was cheered by Catholic neo-conservatives for attacking the media, the entertainment industry and pro-choice groups, now he was excommunicated as a loose cannon because he was shooting at their allies. Mr. Donohue's refusal to be controlled by either party is one of his most attractive qualities."[9] One critic described him as an "identity politics ambulance chaser"[10] and another said he represented a "right-wing publicity mill".[11] Others found that his defense of Catholicism sometimes crossed into attacks on other groups, and he has been accused of homophobia or even "anti-gay bullying" and antisemitism.[11]

Free speech edit

In 2015, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took responsibility for a terror attack on Charlie Hebdo[12] that killed 17 people and wounded 12 in Paris, including the editor of Charlie Hebdo, who had been on an Al-Qaeda hit list.[13][14] Commenting on the attack, Donohue wrote an article titled "Muslims are right to be angry":[15][16]

What unites Muslims in their anger against Charlie Hebdo is the vulgar manner in which Muhammad has been portrayed. What they object to is being intentionally insulted over the course of many years. On this aspect, I am in total agreement with them. ...Stephane Charbonnier, the paper's publisher, was killed today in the slaughter. It is too bad that he didn't understand the role he played in his tragic death. In 2012, when asked why he insults Muslims, he said, 'Muhammad isn't sacred to me.' Had he not been so narcissistic, he may still be alive. Muhammad isn't sacred to me, either, but it would never occur to me to deliberately insult Muslims by trashing him.

In 2015, Donohue said on Fox News,[17] "Self censorship is the friend of freedom"[18] and that free speech should not permit "obscene portrayal of religious figures".[15] Hugh Hewitt, a conservative Catholic talk show host, called Donohue "an embarrassment" to Catholics for his statement, saying "You blamed the victim before their bodies were cold" and "You are standing over the bodies of twelve dead people, including two policemen, one yesterday and one today, who knows who else is going to get killed in France during the course of this thing, and you are saying they were justified because they were insulted".[19]

However, author Timothy J. Gordon observed that "Donohue came prepared to defend his statement in a logical and genteel (at least initially) manner" while Hewitt sounded "beleaguered and clearly intellectually overmatched." Gordon concludes that "one remains unconvinced that outfits like Hewitt or Fox News—throughout all their abuse of Donohue, as well as their full-hearted self-congratulations for their own stance, last week—will deal with Islam in any more subtle or sophisticated a way than Donohue."[20]

John Bacon noted in USA Today that Pope Francis made a related argument at the time. Bacon quoted the pope as saying, "It's normal, you cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit. Every religion has its dignity." In this light, Donohue's comments are more in keeping with a traditional Catholic worldview.[21]

The Pope edit

In 2015, in response to Laudato si', Donohue described Pope Francis as "the ultimate maverick" on The Alan Colmes Show, saying "the left is going to like the fact that he has more of a socialist model in terms of his vision of the structure of the economy. He's anti-market in the encyclical."[22][23] Donohue criticised The New York Times editorial board, saying they want "the pope to shove his teachings down" the throats of Republican legislators.[24]

Marriage edit

Donohue believes marriage is "not about love" or "making people happy" but that one fundamental and inextricable purpose of marriage is to have a family.[25][26]

Donohue was making an historical observation. “Marriage has always been based, historically, on duty and on commitment.”[25]

Sexual abuse by priests edit

In 2009, after the release of the official report of the Ryan Commission, whose findings included multiple instances of rape and persuasive evidence of endemic sexual, emotional, and physical abuse throughout the Catholic School system in Ireland,[27] Donohue publicly denied these criminal charges[28] and characterized the media response to the Ryan Report as "hysterical". He argued that most offenses occurred before 1970 when "corporal punishment", as Donohue termed it, was not thought unacceptable, and referred to the victims as "miscreants". He noted the report's broad definitions of abuse, which included neglect and emotional abuse. Since the majority of priests are not rapists, he judged news headlines like Reuters' "Irish Priests Beat, Raped Children" were "wild and irresponsible", regardless of whether or not the headlines were true. He blamed the report and the journalists in turn.[29]

On March 30, 2010, Donohue appeared on CNN's Larry King Live on a panel discussing sexual abuse of children by priests. Donohue contended that the decades-old problem consisted mostly of offenses involving post-pubescent boys aged 12 or more, which offenses therefore, according to Donohue, should be considered the acts of homosexual priests, rather than the actions of pedophiles.[10][a] Donohue also pointed to the independent John Jay Report, which stated that 81% of the victims were male and 78% were post pubescent.[31]

In August 2018, Donohue responded to a report by a Pennsylvania grand jury that revealed rampant sexual abuse of children by some 300 priests by stating that the victims weren't raped because they were only groped, not penetrated.[32]

"There is no ongoing crisis," he tweeted. "In fact, there is no institution, private or public, that has less of a problem with the sexual abuse of minors today than the Catholic Church." Several individuals quickly condemned his statement; John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary magazine, said, "Bill Donohue's soul quickly leaked out of his body." Jim Lokay, an anchor for Fox affiliate WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C., tweeted that the Catholic League's statement was "One of the most shameful, ignorant, tone-deaf, arrogant tweets I've ever seen."[33]

Donohue was so incensed by these attacks that he wrote a book arguing that by 2018, the Catholic Church had indeed posted the best record on handling cases of the sexual abuse of minors of any institution in the United States. He amassed over 800 footnotes in his book, The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and the Causes, to demonstrate the validity of his position.[34]

Television and film edit

In 1995, Donohue, joined by evangelical leaders, called for a boycott of Disney for distributing the British film Priest, which depicted one priest struggling with his homosexuality and another involved in an affair with a woman. Donohue said the film was "designed intentionally to insult the Catholic Church and Catholics nationwide". The boycott had no impact, but helped Disney recognize the market for entertainment with religious themes.[35]

For months in 1997 Donohue promoted a boycott of the advertisers of the television show Nothing Sacred, the story of "a sexy Catholic priest, Father Ray, who sometimes doubts his faith". Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and the National Catholic Reporter opposed Donohue's efforts.[36] Some advertisers stopped placing ads with the show because of the controversy, but the show found replacements.[37]

One study of the show said that the television series The Simpsons presented Catholicism with humor that had an "undeniably hostile, sometimes gratuitous edge to it" for years.[38] Donohue objected to some dialogue in a November 1998 episode[b] and other material in a January 1999 show that, in his view, made Catholicism the butt of a joke. In one case network executives substituted the name of a Protestant denomination for Catholic in later rebroadcasts.[40]

In 1999, before the release of Kevin Smith's film Dogma, Donohue reported that he had read the script and found it objectionable.[c] He said: "Quite naturally, the actors and film critics who like the movie are not disturbed by the anti-Catholicism that they themselves acknowledge, however unwittingly."[42] After viewing the film in November, he wrote:[43]

That film critics like The New York Times reviewer, Janet Maslin, and Time magazine's Richard Corliss, thought it a gas means either that they will laugh at anything, or they can't resist giving high marks to any movie that insults Catholicism. The only way to find out for sure is for someone in Hollywood to make a stupid comedy that insults Protestants or Jews (preferably both), and then run it by the likes of Maslin and Corliss.

Smith later said that the film proved less offensive than its critics had anticipated and that Donohue "actually invited me out to have a beer after making my life hell for six months".[44]

In December 2004, Donohue discussed Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ. During a discussion of the film on the television show Scarborough Country, Donohue said:[45]

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. That's why they hate this movie. It's about Jesus Christ, and it's about truth. It's about the Messiah.

When Rabbi Shmuley Boteach responded calling Donohue's statement "anti-Semitic garbage", and saying: "I have got to tell you that Bill Donohue ... ought to be ashamed of himself, the way he’s spoken about secular Jews hating Christians. That is a bunch of crap, OK?”,[46][47] Donohue said:[48]

In short, I did not single out secular Jews as some have said. Nonetheless, I do regret using the verb "controlled", and that is because it suggests that there is some kind of cabal among secular Jews. That's nonsense. But is there a segment of the secular Jewish community that is anti-Catholic? Absolutely.

In November 2005, he criticized an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation for promoting "a pro-abortion rights agenda by portraying those who are opposed to abortion as religious nuts not to be taken seriously".[49]

In the spring of 2006, after Comedy Central refused to allow its animated television series South Park to show an image of Muhammad, Donohue said the show's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, whom he had frequently criticized, should have protested that censorship by resigning, but instead "Like little whores, they'll sit there and grab the bucks. They'll sit there and they'll whine and they'll take their shot at Jesus. That's their stock in trade."[50] The next season, South Park parodied Donohue in the episode "Fantastic Easter Special". The episode depicts Donohue as a power-hungry Catholic official who usurps the Pope and sentences Jesus to death as a heretic; he is eventually killed by Jesus. Donohue took the episode in good humor, displaying a still from it in his office depicting him wearing the pope's miter. Describing the episode's plot to The New York Times, he said "... they have me overthrow the pope because the pope is a wimp, and then I take over the church and give it some guts. ...But in the end, Jesus kills me."[3]

Donohue, along with a number of other religious leaders, criticized the children's fantasy epic The Golden Compass. Donohue said that the trilogy of books on which the screenplay was based, His Dark Materials, "denigrate Christianity, thrash the Catholic Church and sell the virtues of atheism". Though the film eliminated what he found offensive, he deemed it a "stealth campaign" to sell the books to readers unaware of their content.[51][52] The impact of the resulting controversy on the film's commercial performance was uncertain.[53]

War on Christmas edit

Donohue has regularly campaigned against the secularization of Christmas, which he describes as "the diluting and dumbing down of the cultural and religious significance of Christmas." An Associated Press story once explained: "As it is for millions of people, Christmas is Bill Donohue's busy season. While others spend time wrapping and shopping, Donohue stays busy sniping." He described the challenge: "It's political correctness run amok. Every day I'm putting out a statement about the latest absurdity. ...This time of year, you can just bank on it."[8]

In December 2005, he criticized Christmas cards sent by U.S. President George W. Bush for using the term "holiday season" and not mentioning "Christmas". He said: "This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture."[54] In 2010, after an atheists organization used a billboard at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel to display the message "You KNOW it's a myth!" across the scene of the magi traveling to the manger at Bethlehem, the Catholic League responded with a billboard of its own. Donohue said "We can't enjoy the Christmas season without someone trying to dumb it down or neuter it" and added: "Talk about a myth. They believe in nothing. They stand for nothing. They think we came from nothing. They're the ones who really are living in some other hollow world."[55]

In 2013, he announced plans for a billboard reading "Send Modern-Day Scrooges a Message: Celebrate the Prince of Peace". As "a tongue-in-cheek statement against political correctness", he proposed a list of "Office Party Rules to Ignore" that included eliminating dress rules so women could display cleavage and scheduling the affair for a Friday to encourage alcohol consumption. It concluded: "We happen to be Irish Catholics, a lot of us here, we're going to play to the stereotype."[56]

Homosexuality edit

Donohue has been a consistent critic of same-sex marriage.[57]

In 2010, Frank Rich said that when Donohue extended his criticism of an art exhibit from one work he considered anti-religious and complained that it included "pornographic images of gay men", he "was just using his 'religious' objections as a perfunctory cover for the homophobia actually driving his complaint".[11]

Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom edit

In January 2023, the Catholic League released Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom. This documentary recounts the cultural shift at Disney. The film was written and directed by Jason Killian Meath. Bill Donohue served as the executive producer. It is hosted by Mercedes Schlapp and features interviews with Donohue, Tony Perkins, Ben Carson, Vivek Ramaswamy, Miranda Devine, Brent Bozell, David Horowitz, and Christian Toto. The film was initially released to SalemNow, YouTube, Rumble, and Amazon Prime Video.[58]

Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom has been aired at several film festivals, including the Indie Short Fest where it won technical awards for "best editing" and "best sound editing" along with an Outstanding Achievement Award.[59][60]

Los Angeles Dodgers edit

When the Los Angeles Dodgers planned their annual Pride Night in 2023, they invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a charity group of gay men who dress up as nuns to bring attention to sexual intolerance and gender. The team received backlash from the Catholic League, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Catholic Vote. Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent a letter to commissioner Rob Manfred comparing the group's performances to blackface. The Dodgers subsequently disinvited the group, likely owing to the large Catholic population of the city. KNBC reported that "the Dodgers pulled the Sisters from their Pride Night the day after Bill Donohue, president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, had emailed Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to urge the team to yank the group."[61]

In response, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the ACLU, County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, State Senator Scott Wiener, and the Sisters called for the group to be reinvited, and the LGBT Center and LA Pride backed out of Pride Night. The nearby Los Angeles Angels even promised to invite the group to their Pride Night instead. However, the Dodgers reversed their decision on May 22, 2023 and announced the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were once again welcome at the event.[62] The group accepted the team's apology.[63]

2016 Anthony Weiner sexting scandal edit

Bill Donohue has stated he played a critical role in triggering the FBI's investigation of Anthony Weiner's laptop resulting in the discovery of thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails.[64] After seeing lewd photos of Weiner with his toddler son sleeping next to him in the New York Post, Donohue filed a complaint with the New York City branch of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (ACS) asking for an investigation of Weiner for exploiting his young child.[65] On September 26, Donohue says he was informed by ACS that his complaint had been accepted and that Weiner would be investigated. A week after Donohue's complaint had been accepted, the FBI seized Weiner's electronic devices and found thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails,[64] prompting FBI director James Comey to reopen that investigation late into the 2016 US presidential election.[66] Hillary Clinton has cited Comey's decision as one reason why she lost the election to Trump.[67]

Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home edit

Main article: Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home

In 2014, in the face of a public pressure campaign calling for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters in Ireland, Bill Donohue began his own campaign to challenge the prevailing narrative, going so far as to author a special report on the subject.[68] Donohue largely dismissed the critics as being motivated by politics or liking "to bash the Church."[69]  Donohue took exception with the findings presented by Catherine Corless, who he described as "an amateur historian." Donohue and Corless debated on Irish radio, and he wrote extensively challenging her work and her credentials. Additionally, Donohue found flaws with how the media portrayed the mass graves found at the Mother and Baby Home, claiming that "the statement issued by the Mother and Baby Commission was disturbing, but it never mentioned anything about a mass grave."[70]  From 2014 to 2017, Donohue issued two special reports and numerous pieces exploring why he believed this story was evidence of anti-Catholicism.

Politics edit

Early in the 2000 presidential campaign, Donohue criticized President George W. Bush for appearing at Bob Jones University, whose head once called Catholicism "the religion of the Antichrist and a satanic system." He welcomed Bush's letter of apology for failing to make his opposition to the school's anti-Catholicism clear, saying: "One of the great touchstones of Catholicism is forgiveness for the wrongdoer who admits that he or she is wrong, and there's nothing to be gained by beating this dead horse." He also criticized some of his co-religionists: "There are some Catholics who are so desperate to get a Republican back in the White House, they're willing to overlook anything. Our feeling is, let the pus come to the surface."[71] He raised a similar issue a few weeks later when the Republican leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives appointed a Protestant chaplain rather than the Catholic priest who received the greatest support from the bipartisan committee charged with the selection. Donohue ignored suggestions that he was not helping calm the situation by protesting. He said: "There is a segment of the evangelical Protestant community that is anti-Catholic. It has been there for a long, long time. Everyone is saying, 'Let's not talk about it.' I don't want a strain between Catholics and Protestants, but I'm not going to paper this over."[72] Within a few weeks, the Protestant chaplain withdrew and Hastert appointed the House's first Catholic chaplain, though not the original candidate.[73]

Later in 2000, he condemned Patrick Buchanan for launching his presidential campaign at Bob Jones: "Buchanan is not alone among Catholics who have no problem recognizing anti-Catholicism when it stems from the academy or Hollywood, but are utterly unable to do so when it comes from their 'friends.' The Catholic League does not suffer from this disability and that is why we will continue to denounce anti-Catholic bigotry independent of its origins."[74] By contrast, he excused John Ashcroft for accepting an honorary degree before Bob Jones' views became widely known.[75]

In December 2007, he objected to a television commercial that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was using in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The ad showed the candidate seated in front of a stained glass window that displayed, in Donohue's view, an image of the cross while Huckabee described the importance of Christmas and family. Donohue said: "This is just injecting religion into politics even too far for guys like me." He believed Huckabee was identifying his religion to attack Mitt Romney's Mormon faith.[76]

During the 2008 presidential race, Donohue called for Obama to disband his campaign's Catholic National Advisory Council, which he said represented only "dissident Catholics," most with perfect ratings from the National Abortion Rights Action League.[77]

In March 2009, he criticized President Obama's selection of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services calling her "one of the most extreme pro-abortion zealots in the nation".[78]

In June 2016, following the close of the New York State legislature without action on legislation designed to help survivors of childhood sexual abuse, Donohue wrote: "The bill was sold as justice for the victims of sexual abuse, when, in fact, it was a sham: the proposed legislation that failed to make it to the floor of the New York State legislature in the wee hours of Saturday ... was a vindictive bill pushed by lawyers and activists out to rape the Catholic Church."[79]

Catholic higher education edit

Donohue called the decision of the University of Notre Dame to award an honorary degree to President Obama in 2009 "a slap in the face to the bishops" of the U.S. "given what the bishops have clearly asked of Catholic institutions".[80]

Anti-Catholicism edit

He protested against what he considers employment discrimination against Catholics, in the case of a woman required by her supervisor to remove the Ash Wednesday ashes from her forehead in 2005.[81] In 2007, when a substitute high school teacher in Georgia wiped the ashes from a student's forehead and berated her, Donohue called for the teacher to be disciplined. When school officials reported that the teacher had been "counseled and cautioned", Donohue called the teacher's behavior "morally reprehensible" and asked state education officials to investigate the incident.[82]

He faulted the owners of the Empire State Building for failing to honor Mother Teresa in 2010 and Cardinal Timothy Dolan in 2012. He said: "There's no question that they're much more at home honoring mass murderers there at the Empire State Building and I'm not being facetious. They honored Mao Zedong and others for the 60th anniversary of the Communist Revolution here a few years ago, who took with him 77 million innocent Chinese men, women, and children".[83]

Public art edit

In 1999, Donohue called for people to picket the Brooklyn Museum of Art to protest its display of a painting by Chris Ofili titled The Holy Virgin Mary that, according to The New York Times, depicted "a black Madonna with a clump of elephant dung on one breast and cutouts of genitalia from pornographic magazines in the background".[84]

On November 30, 2010, Donohue denounced a piece of video art, A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz, that was included in an exhibition of gay and lesbian portraiture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. The piece included a scene with ants crawling on a crucifix.[85] Donohue called the video "anti-Christian hate speech" and called for its removal, which the Smithsonian did.[86] Frank Rich described the work as consistent with the use of religious imagery in the Western tradition: "A crucifix is besieged by ants that evoke frantic souls scurrying in panic as a seemingly impassive God looked on."[11] During an interview with National Public Radio about the incident, Donohue questioned the Smithsonian's status as a tax-supported institution:[87]

Why should the working class pay for the leisure of the elite when in fact one of the things the working class likes to do for leisure is to go to professional wrestling? And if I suggested we should have federal funds for professional wrestling to lower the cost of the ticket, people would think I'm insane. I don't go to museums any more than any Americans do.

The Association of Art Museum Directors called the Smithsonian's decision "extremely regrettable", and Olga Viso, director of the Walker Art Center and formerly of the Smithsonian, said her former employer had "perhaps lost touch with some of the core principles and spirit of its establishment". One of the exhibit's curators said that Donohue represented an anti-Semitic hate group that viewed gays and lesbians as "raw meat" in the culture wars.[88]

In 2012, a Manhattan art gallery displayed "Immersion (Piss Christ)", a photograph by Andres Serrano that depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist's urine. Donohue protested at a news conference outside the gallery and was then denied admission. He pointed out that the Obama administration had recently criticized a film critical of Islam, Innocence of Muslims, but said nothing about Serrano's work. He made his own video of an Obama bobblehead doll with a brown substance, actually "brown Play-Doh", he said, to demonstrate "that the cultural and political elite are basically secularist; they don't believe in God." Pointing to the jar in the video he said: "This is their god."[89]

Individuals edit

Donohue has had a long-running dispute with political and social commentator Bill Maher.[90][91][92][93][94][95]

Comedian Kathy Griffin in her 2007 Primetime Emmy acceptance speech, mocked award recipients who thanked God when accepting awards by saying "So all I can say is suck it, Jesus, this award is my god now!" Donohue called her language "obscene and blasphemous" and said: "It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, 'Suck it, Muhammad,' there would have been a very different reaction".[96]

In 2010, after the openly gay pop star Elton John described Jesus as a "compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems", Donohue objected:[97]

Jesus was certainly compassionate, but to say he was 'super-intelligent' is to compare the son of God to a successful game-show contestant. More seriously, to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a sexual deviant. But what else would we expect from a man who previously said, "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely."

Discussing Christopher Hitchens's study of Mother Teresa, he termed the author "totally overrated as a scholar ... sloppy in his research", but nevertheless found much to admire, saying: "[I]n many respects he was a brilliant guy, he was quick, he was a provocateur, and that's the part of Christopher Hitchens that I loved. But when it came to the facts it didn't seem to matter to him." Donohue said he and Hitchens agreed on abortion, though Hitchens' views on abortion were not exactly those of Donohue.[98] In 1993, Hitchens characterized his thinking as "I have my doubts about abortion. I find I'm very squeamish on the subject".[99]

On December 6, 2013, Jon David Couzens filed a defamation lawsuit against Donohue. Couzens, represented by Rebecca Randles, claimed he had sustained injuries following several statements put out by Donohue. In October 2015, a federal district court dismissed charges of defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress against Donohue. In April 2015, the 8th Circuit of Appeals upheld this ruling.[100]

Writings edit

  • The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union (Transaction Publishers, 1985), ISBN 978-0-887-38021-1
  • The New Freedom: Individualism and Collectivism in the Social Lives of Americans (Transaction Publishers, 1991)
  • Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU, (1994)
  • Secular Sabotage: How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America (NY: FaithWords, 2009), ISBN 978-0-446-54721-5
  • Why Catholicism Matters: How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the Twenty-First Century (2012)
  • The Catholic Advantage: Why Health, Happiness, and Heaven Await the Faithful (2015)
  • Unmasking Mother Teresa's Critics (2016)
  • Common Sense Catholicism: How to Resolve Our Cultural Crisis (2019)
  • The Truth About Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and Causes (2021)
  • War on Virtue: How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream (2023)

Notes edit

  1. ^ A Commonweal story discussed the available statistics and the use of the term postpubescent. It quoted a well-known study: "The largest group of alleged victims (50.9%) was between the ages of 11 and 14, 27.3% were 15–17, 16% were 8–10 and nearly 6% were under age 7. Overall, 81% of victims were male and 19% female." It concluded that since "73 percent of all victims were under 14 years of age", the label pedophilia was appropriate and the label homosexual was not.[30]
  2. ^ The child Bart asks his mother if their family can become Catholic and she replies: "No one is going Catholic. Three children is enough, thank you."[39]
  3. ^ The plot concerned a pair of angels "banished from heaven to Wisconsin" who devise a scheme to win re-admittance to heaven.[41]

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January 01, 1970
bill, donohue, william, donohue, redirects, here, york, assemblyman, william, donohue, canadian, jockey, trainer, william, donohue, jockey, people, with, similar, name, william, donahue, disambiguation, william, anthony, donohue, born, july, 1947, american, ro. William Donohue redirects here For the New York assemblyman see William J Donohue For the Canadian jockey and trainer see William Donohue jockey For people with a similar name see William Donahue disambiguation William Anthony Donohue born July 18 1947 is an American Roman Catholic layman who has been president of the Catholic League in the United States since 1993 1 Bill DonohueBornWilliam Anthony Donohue 1947 07 18 July 18 1947 age 76 Manhattan New York U S NationalityAmericanAlma materNew York University PhD OccupationPresident of the Catholic League Contents 1 Life and career 2 Activism 2 1 Free speech 2 2 The Pope 2 3 Marriage 2 4 Sexual abuse by priests 2 5 Television and film 2 6 War on Christmas 2 7 Homosexuality 2 8 Walt s Disenchanted Kingdom 2 9 Los Angeles Dodgers 2 10 2016 Anthony Weiner sexting scandal 2 11 Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home 2 12 Politics 2 13 Catholic higher education 2 14 Anti Catholicism 2 15 Public art 2 16 Individuals 3 Writings 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksLife and career editDonohue was born in the borough of Manhattan in New York City He began his teaching career in the 1970s working at St Lucy s School in Spanish Harlem In 1977 he took a teaching position at La Roche College in McCandless Pennsylvania In 1980 he received his doctorate in sociology from New York University 2 Donohue is divorced and has two adult children from his marriage 3 His first book was The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union He became associated with the conservative Heritage Foundation where he is an adjunct scholar While Donohue was in college in New York Virgil C Blum a Jesuit at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin founded the Catholic League to counter anti Catholicism in American culture Blum died in 1990 in 1993 Donohue became the organization s director citation needed Donohue publishes The Catalyst the Catholic League s journal He formerly served on the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars 4 He serves on the board of advisers of the Washington Legal Foundation the Howard Center for Family Religion and Society the Society of Catholic Social Scientists Catholics United for the Faith the Ave Maria Institute the Christian Film and Television Commission and Catholic War Veterans He received the 2005 St Thomas More Award for Catholic Citizenship from Catholic Citizens of Illinois 5 In 2022 Donohue was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Ave Maria School of Law citation needed He also gave the commencement address to the graduating class 6 Activism editDonohue campaigns against what he perceives as the discrimination and defamation of Catholics and Catholicism In doing so he has targeted a diverse array of organizations and individuals in entertainment politics and the arts His work has produced divergent assessments Legatus Magazine the monthly publication of an organization for Catholic business executives wrote 7 At 66 years old Bill Donohue might just be the hardest working man in the Catholic Church with the exception of Pope Francis of course Not only has the New York City native been at the helm of the Catholic League for a full 20 years but he is busy writing a new book while regularly riding to the defense of Catholics across the country beset by a hostile culture and media USA Today once characterized Donohue reporting that Donohue serves as Santa to his membership of 350 000 and Scrooge to those who run afoul of him 8 In 2000 an editorial in America a Jesuit magazine noted Donohue s bi partisanship and willingness to break ranks with Republicans who aligned with him on most issues once he was cheered by Catholic neo conservatives for attacking the media the entertainment industry and pro choice groups now he was excommunicated as a loose cannon because he was shooting at their allies Mr Donohue s refusal to be controlled by either party is one of his most attractive qualities 9 One critic described him as an identity politics ambulance chaser 10 and another said he represented a right wing publicity mill 11 Others found that his defense of Catholicism sometimes crossed into attacks on other groups and he has been accused of homophobia or even anti gay bullying and antisemitism 11 Free speech edit In 2015 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took responsibility for a terror attack on Charlie Hebdo 12 that killed 17 people and wounded 12 in Paris including the editor of Charlie Hebdo who had been on an Al Qaeda hit list 13 14 Commenting on the attack Donohue wrote an article titled Muslims are right to be angry 15 16 What unites Muslims in their anger against Charlie Hebdo is the vulgar manner in which Muhammad has been portrayed What they object to is being intentionally insulted over the course of many years On this aspect I am in total agreement with them Stephane Charbonnier the paper s publisher was killed today in the slaughter It is too bad that he didn t understand the role he played in his tragic death In 2012 when asked why he insults Muslims he said Muhammad isn t sacred to me Had he not been so narcissistic he may still be alive Muhammad isn t sacred to me either but it would never occur to me to deliberately insult Muslims by trashing him In 2015 Donohue said on Fox News 17 Self censorship is the friend of freedom 18 and that free speech should not permit obscene portrayal of religious figures 15 Hugh Hewitt a conservative Catholic talk show host called Donohue an embarrassment to Catholics for his statement saying You blamed the victim before their bodies were cold and You are standing over the bodies of twelve dead people including two policemen one yesterday and one today who knows who else is going to get killed in France during the course of this thing and you are saying they were justified because they were insulted 19 However author Timothy J Gordon observed that Donohue came prepared to defend his statement in a logical and genteel at least initially manner while Hewitt sounded beleaguered and clearly intellectually overmatched Gordon concludes that one remains unconvinced that outfits like Hewitt or Fox News throughout all their abuse of Donohue as well as their full hearted self congratulations for their own stance last week will deal with Islam in any more subtle or sophisticated a way than Donohue 20 John Bacon noted in USA Today that Pope Francis made a related argument at the time Bacon quoted the pope as saying It s normal you cannot provoke You cannot insult the faith of others You cannot make fun of the faith of others There is a limit Every religion has its dignity In this light Donohue s comments are more in keeping with a traditional Catholic worldview 21 The Pope edit In 2015 in response to Laudato si Donohue described Pope Francis as the ultimate maverick on The Alan Colmes Show saying the left is going to like the fact that he has more of a socialist model in terms of his vision of the structure of the economy He s anti market in the encyclical 22 23 Donohue criticised The New York Times editorial board saying they want the pope to shove his teachings down the throats of Republican legislators 24 Marriage edit Donohue believes marriage is not about love or making people happy but that one fundamental and inextricable purpose of marriage is to have a family 25 26 Donohue was making an historical observation Marriage has always been based historically on duty and on commitment 25 Sexual abuse by priests edit In 2009 after the release of the official report of the Ryan Commission whose findings included multiple instances of rape and persuasive evidence of endemic sexual emotional and physical abuse throughout the Catholic School system in Ireland 27 Donohue publicly denied these criminal charges 28 and characterized the media response to the Ryan Report as hysterical He argued that most offenses occurred before 1970 when corporal punishment as Donohue termed it was not thought unacceptable and referred to the victims as miscreants He noted the report s broad definitions of abuse which included neglect and emotional abuse Since the majority of priests are not rapists he judged news headlines like Reuters Irish Priests Beat Raped Children were wild and irresponsible regardless of whether or not the headlines were true He blamed the report and the journalists in turn 29 On March 30 2010 Donohue appeared on CNN s Larry King Live on a panel discussing sexual abuse of children by priests Donohue contended that the decades old problem consisted mostly of offenses involving post pubescent boys aged 12 or more which offenses therefore according to Donohue should be considered the acts of homosexual priests rather than the actions of pedophiles 10 a Donohue also pointed to the independent John Jay Report which stated that 81 of the victims were male and 78 were post pubescent 31 In August 2018 Donohue responded to a report by a Pennsylvania grand jury that revealed rampant sexual abuse of children by some 300 priests by stating that the victims weren t raped because they were only groped not penetrated 32 There is no ongoing crisis he tweeted In fact there is no institution private or public that has less of a problem with the sexual abuse of minors today than the Catholic Church Several individuals quickly condemned his statement John Podhoretz editor of Commentary magazine said Bill Donohue s soul quickly leaked out of his body Jim Lokay an anchor for Fox affiliate WTTG TV in Washington D C tweeted that the Catholic League s statement was One of the most shameful ignorant tone deaf arrogant tweets I ve ever seen 33 Donohue was so incensed by these attacks that he wrote a book arguing that by 2018 the Catholic Church had indeed posted the best record on handling cases of the sexual abuse of minors of any institution in the United States He amassed over 800 footnotes in his book The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse Clarifying the Facts and the Causes to demonstrate the validity of his position 34 Television and film edit In 1995 Donohue joined by evangelical leaders called for a boycott of Disney for distributing the British film Priest which depicted one priest struggling with his homosexuality and another involved in an affair with a woman Donohue said the film was designed intentionally to insult the Catholic Church and Catholics nationwide The boycott had no impact but helped Disney recognize the market for entertainment with religious themes 35 For months in 1997 Donohue promoted a boycott of the advertisers of the television show Nothing Sacred the story of a sexy Catholic priest Father Ray who sometimes doubts his faith Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and the National Catholic Reporter opposed Donohue s efforts 36 Some advertisers stopped placing ads with the show because of the controversy but the show found replacements 37 One study of the show said that the television series The Simpsons presented Catholicism with humor that had an undeniably hostile sometimes gratuitous edge to it for years 38 Donohue objected to some dialogue in a November 1998 episode b and other material in a January 1999 show that in his view made Catholicism the butt of a joke In one case network executives substituted the name of a Protestant denomination for Catholic in later rebroadcasts 40 In 1999 before the release of Kevin Smith s film Dogma Donohue reported that he had read the script and found it objectionable c He said Quite naturally the actors and film critics who like the movie are not disturbed by the anti Catholicism that they themselves acknowledge however unwittingly 42 After viewing the film in November he wrote 43 That film critics like The New York Times reviewer Janet Maslin and Time magazine s Richard Corliss thought it a gas means either that they will laugh at anything or they can t resist giving high marks to any movie that insults Catholicism The only way to find out for sure is for someone in Hollywood to make a stupid comedy that insults Protestants or Jews preferably both and then run it by the likes of Maslin and Corliss Smith later said that the film proved less offensive than its critics had anticipated and that Donohue actually invited me out to have a beer after making my life hell for six months 44 In December 2004 Donohue discussed Mel Gibson s movie The Passion of the Christ During a discussion of the film on the television show Scarborough Country Donohue said 45 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 That s why they hate this movie It s about Jesus Christ and it s about truth It s about the Messiah When Rabbi Shmuley Boteach responded calling Donohue s statement anti Semitic garbage and saying I have got to tell you that Bill Donohue ought to be ashamed of himself the way he s spoken about secular Jews hating Christians That is a bunch of crap OK 46 47 Donohue said 48 In short I did not single out secular Jews as some have said Nonetheless I do regret using the verb controlled and that is because it suggests that there is some kind of cabal among secular Jews That s nonsense But is there a segment of the secular Jewish community that is anti Catholic Absolutely In November 2005 he criticized an episode of CSI Crime Scene Investigation for promoting a pro abortion rights agenda by portraying those who are opposed to abortion as religious nuts not to be taken seriously 49 In the spring of 2006 after Comedy Central refused to allow its animated television series South Park to show an image of Muhammad Donohue said the show s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone whom he had frequently criticized should have protested that censorship by resigning but instead Like little whores they ll sit there and grab the bucks They ll sit there and they ll whine and they ll take their shot at Jesus That s their stock in trade 50 The next season South Park parodied Donohue in the episode Fantastic Easter Special The episode depicts Donohue as a power hungry Catholic official who usurps the Pope and sentences Jesus to death as a heretic he is eventually killed by Jesus Donohue took the episode in good humor displaying a still from it in his office depicting him wearing the pope s miter Describing the episode s plot to The New York Times he said they have me overthrow the pope because the pope is a wimp and then I take over the church and give it some guts But in the end Jesus kills me 3 Donohue along with a number of other religious leaders criticized the children s fantasy epic The Golden Compass Donohue said that the trilogy of books on which the screenplay was based His Dark Materials denigrate Christianity thrash the Catholic Church and sell the virtues of atheism Though the film eliminated what he found offensive he deemed it a stealth campaign to sell the books to readers unaware of their content 51 52 The impact of the resulting controversy on the film s commercial performance was uncertain 53 War on Christmas edit Donohue has regularly campaigned against the secularization of Christmas which he describes as the diluting and dumbing down of the cultural and religious significance of Christmas An Associated Press story once explained As it is for millions of people Christmas is Bill Donohue s busy season While others spend time wrapping and shopping Donohue stays busy sniping He described the challenge It s political correctness run amok Every day I m putting out a statement about the latest absurdity This time of year you can just bank on it 8 In December 2005 he criticized Christmas cards sent by U S President George W Bush for using the term holiday season and not mentioning Christmas He said This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture 54 In 2010 after an atheists organization used a billboard at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel to display the message You KNOW it s a myth across the scene of the magi traveling to the manger at Bethlehem the Catholic League responded with a billboard of its own Donohue said We can t enjoy the Christmas season without someone trying to dumb it down or neuter it and added Talk about a myth They believe in nothing They stand for nothing They think we came from nothing They re the ones who really are living in some other hollow world 55 In 2013 he announced plans for a billboard reading Send Modern Day Scrooges a Message Celebrate the Prince of Peace As a tongue in cheek statement against political correctness he proposed a list of Office Party Rules to Ignore that included eliminating dress rules so women could display cleavage and scheduling the affair for a Friday to encourage alcohol consumption It concluded We happen to be Irish Catholics a lot of us here we re going to play to the stereotype 56 Homosexuality edit Donohue has been a consistent critic of same sex marriage 57 In 2010 Frank Rich said that when Donohue extended his criticism of an art exhibit from one work he considered anti religious and complained that it included pornographic images of gay men he was just using his religious objections as a perfunctory cover for the homophobia actually driving his complaint 11 Walt s Disenchanted Kingdom edit In January 2023 the Catholic League released Walt s Disenchanted Kingdom This documentary recounts the cultural shift at Disney The film was written and directed by Jason Killian Meath Bill Donohue served as the executive producer It is hosted by Mercedes Schlapp and features interviews with Donohue Tony Perkins Ben Carson Vivek Ramaswamy Miranda Devine Brent Bozell David Horowitz and Christian Toto The film was initially released to SalemNow YouTube Rumble and Amazon Prime Video 58 Walt s Disenchanted Kingdom has been aired at several film festivals including the Indie Short Fest where it won technical awards for best editing and best sound editing along with an Outstanding Achievement Award 59 60 Los Angeles Dodgers edit When the Los Angeles Dodgers planned their annual Pride Night in 2023 they invited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence a charity group of gay men who dress up as nuns to bring attention to sexual intolerance and gender The team received backlash from the Catholic League Sen Marco Rubio and Catholic Vote Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent a letter to commissioner Rob Manfred comparing the group s performances to blackface The Dodgers subsequently disinvited the group likely owing to the large Catholic population of the city KNBC reported that the Dodgers pulled the Sisters from their Pride Night the day after Bill Donohue president and CEO of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights had emailed Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to urge the team to yank the group 61 In response the Los Angeles LGBT Center the ACLU County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez State Senator Scott Wiener and the Sisters called for the group to be reinvited and the LGBT Center and LA Pride backed out of Pride Night The nearby Los Angeles Angels even promised to invite the group to their Pride Night instead However the Dodgers reversed their decision on May 22 2023 and announced the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were once again welcome at the event 62 The group accepted the team s apology 63 2016 Anthony Weiner sexting scandal edit Bill Donohue has stated he played a critical role in triggering the FBI s investigation of Anthony Weiner s laptop resulting in the discovery of thousands of Hillary Clinton s emails 64 After seeing lewd photos of Weiner with his toddler son sleeping next to him in the New York Post Donohue filed a complaint with the New York City branch of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services ACS asking for an investigation of Weiner for exploiting his young child 65 On September 26 Donohue says he was informed by ACS that his complaint had been accepted and that Weiner would be investigated A week after Donohue s complaint had been accepted the FBI seized Weiner s electronic devices and found thousands of Hillary Clinton s emails 64 prompting FBI director James Comey to reopen that investigation late into the 2016 US presidential election 66 Hillary Clinton has cited Comey s decision as one reason why she lost the election to Trump 67 Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home edit Main article Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home In 2014 in the face of a public pressure campaign calling for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters in Ireland Bill Donohue began his own campaign to challenge the prevailing narrative going so far as to author a special report on the subject 68 Donohue largely dismissed the critics as being motivated by politics or liking to bash the Church 69 Donohue took exception with the findings presented by Catherine Corless who he described as an amateur historian Donohue and Corless debated on Irish radio and he wrote extensively challenging her work and her credentials Additionally Donohue found flaws with how the media portrayed the mass graves found at the Mother and Baby Home claiming that the statement issued by the Mother and Baby Commission was disturbing but it never mentioned anything about a mass grave 70 From 2014 to 2017 Donohue issued two special reports and numerous pieces exploring why he believed this story was evidence of anti Catholicism Politics edit Early in the 2000 presidential campaign Donohue criticized President George W Bush for appearing at Bob Jones University whose head once called Catholicism the religion of the Antichrist and a satanic system He welcomed Bush s letter of apology for failing to make his opposition to the school s anti Catholicism clear saying One of the great touchstones of Catholicism is forgiveness for the wrongdoer who admits that he or she is wrong and there s nothing to be gained by beating this dead horse He also criticized some of his co religionists There are some Catholics who are so desperate to get a Republican back in the White House they re willing to overlook anything Our feeling is let the pus come to the surface 71 He raised a similar issue a few weeks later when the Republican leadership of the U S House of Representatives appointed a Protestant chaplain rather than the Catholic priest who received the greatest support from the bipartisan committee charged with the selection Donohue ignored suggestions that he was not helping calm the situation by protesting He said There is a segment of the evangelical Protestant community that is anti Catholic It has been there for a long long time Everyone is saying Let s not talk about it I don t want a strain between Catholics and Protestants but I m not going to paper this over 72 Within a few weeks the Protestant chaplain withdrew and Hastert appointed the House s first Catholic chaplain though not the original candidate 73 Later in 2000 he condemned Patrick Buchanan for launching his presidential campaign at Bob Jones Buchanan is not alone among Catholics who have no problem recognizing anti Catholicism when it stems from the academy or Hollywood but are utterly unable to do so when it comes from their friends The Catholic League does not suffer from this disability and that is why we will continue to denounce anti Catholic bigotry independent of its origins 74 By contrast he excused John Ashcroft for accepting an honorary degree before Bob Jones views became widely known 75 In December 2007 he objected to a television commercial that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was using in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination The ad showed the candidate seated in front of a stained glass window that displayed in Donohue s view an image of the cross while Huckabee described the importance of Christmas and family Donohue said This is just injecting religion into politics even too far for guys like me He believed Huckabee was identifying his religion to attack Mitt Romney s Mormon faith 76 During the 2008 presidential race Donohue called for Obama to disband his campaign s Catholic National Advisory Council which he said represented only dissident Catholics most with perfect ratings from the National Abortion Rights Action League 77 In March 2009 he criticized President Obama s selection of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services calling her one of the most extreme pro abortion zealots in the nation 78 In June 2016 following the close of the New York State legislature without action on legislation designed to help survivors of childhood sexual abuse Donohue wrote The bill was sold as justice for the victims of sexual abuse when in fact it was a sham the proposed legislation that failed to make it to the floor of the New York State legislature in the wee hours of Saturday was a vindictive bill pushed by lawyers and activists out to rape the Catholic Church 79 Catholic higher education edit Donohue called the decision of the University of Notre Dame to award an honorary degree to President Obama in 2009 a slap in the face to the bishops of the U S given what the bishops have clearly asked of Catholic institutions 80 Anti Catholicism edit He protested against what he considers employment discrimination against Catholics in the case of a woman required by her supervisor to remove the Ash Wednesday ashes from her forehead in 2005 81 In 2007 when a substitute high school teacher in Georgia wiped the ashes from a student s forehead and berated her Donohue called for the teacher to be disciplined When school officials reported that the teacher had been counseled and cautioned Donohue called the teacher s behavior morally reprehensible and asked state education officials to investigate the incident 82 He faulted the owners of the Empire State Building for failing to honor Mother Teresa in 2010 and Cardinal Timothy Dolan in 2012 He said There s no question that they re much more at home honoring mass murderers there at the Empire State Building and I m not being facetious They honored Mao Zedong and others for the 60th anniversary of the Communist Revolution here a few years ago who took with him 77 million innocent Chinese men women and children 83 Public art edit In 1999 Donohue called for people to picket the Brooklyn Museum of Art to protest its display of a painting by Chris Ofili titled The Holy Virgin Mary that according to The New York Times depicted a black Madonna with a clump of elephant dung on one breast and cutouts of genitalia from pornographic magazines in the background 84 On November 30 2010 Donohue denounced a piece of video art A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz that was included in an exhibition of gay and lesbian portraiture at the Smithsonian Institution s National Portrait Gallery The piece included a scene with ants crawling on a crucifix 85 Donohue called the video anti Christian hate speech and called for its removal which the Smithsonian did 86 Frank Rich described the work as consistent with the use of religious imagery in the Western tradition A crucifix is besieged by ants that evoke frantic souls scurrying in panic as a seemingly impassive God looked on 11 During an interview with National Public Radio about the incident Donohue questioned the Smithsonian s status as a tax supported institution 87 Why should the working class pay for the leisure of the elite when in fact one of the things the working class likes to do for leisure is to go to professional wrestling And if I suggested we should have federal funds for professional wrestling to lower the cost of the ticket people would think I m insane I don t go to museums any more than any Americans do The Association of Art Museum Directors called the Smithsonian s decision extremely regrettable and Olga Viso director of the Walker Art Center and formerly of the Smithsonian said her former employer had perhaps lost touch with some of the core principles and spirit of its establishment One of the exhibit s curators said that Donohue represented an anti Semitic hate group that viewed gays and lesbians as raw meat in the culture wars 88 In 2012 a Manhattan art gallery displayed Immersion Piss Christ a photograph by Andres Serrano that depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist s urine Donohue protested at a news conference outside the gallery and was then denied admission He pointed out that the Obama administration had recently criticized a film critical of Islam Innocence of Muslims but said nothing about Serrano s work He made his own video of an Obama bobblehead doll with a brown substance actually brown Play Doh he said to demonstrate that the cultural and political elite are basically secularist they don t believe in God Pointing to the jar in the video he said This is their god 89 Individuals edit Donohue has had a long running dispute with political and social commentator Bill Maher 90 91 92 93 94 95 Comedian Kathy Griffin in her 2007 Primetime Emmy acceptance speech mocked award recipients who thanked God when accepting awards by saying So all I can say is suck it Jesus this award is my god now Donohue called her language obscene and blasphemous and said It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said Suck it Muhammad there would have been a very different reaction 96 In 2010 after the openly gay pop star Elton John described Jesus as a compassionate super intelligent gay man who understood human problems Donohue objected 97 Jesus was certainly compassionate but to say he was super intelligent is to compare the son of God to a successful game show contestant More seriously to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a sexual deviant But what else would we expect from a man who previously said From my point of view I would ban religion completely Discussing Christopher Hitchens s study of Mother Teresa he termed the author totally overrated as a scholar sloppy in his research but nevertheless found much to admire saying I n many respects he was a brilliant guy he was quick he was a provocateur and that s the part of Christopher Hitchens that I loved But when it came to the facts it didn t seem to matter to him Donohue said he and Hitchens agreed on abortion though Hitchens views on abortion were not exactly those of Donohue 98 In 1993 Hitchens characterized his thinking as I have my doubts about abortion I find I m very squeamish on the subject 99 On December 6 2013 Jon David Couzens filed a defamation lawsuit against Donohue Couzens represented by Rebecca Randles claimed he had sustained injuries following several statements put out by Donohue In October 2015 a federal district court dismissed charges of defamation invasion of privacy and intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress against Donohue In April 2015 the 8th Circuit of Appeals upheld this ruling 100 Writings editThe Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union Transaction Publishers 1985 ISBN 978 0 887 38021 1 The New Freedom Individualism and Collectivism in the Social Lives of Americans Transaction Publishers 1991 Twilight of Liberty The Legacy of the ACLU 1994 Secular Sabotage How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America NY FaithWords 2009 ISBN 978 0 446 54721 5 Why Catholicism Matters How Catholic Virtues Can Reshape Society in the Twenty First Century 2012 The Catholic Advantage Why Health Happiness and Heaven Await the Faithful 2015 Unmasking Mother Teresa s Critics 2016 Common Sense Catholicism How to Resolve Our Cultural Crisis 2019 The Truth About Clergy Sexual Abuse Clarifying the Facts and Causes 2021 War on Virtue How the Ruling Class Is Killing the American Dream 2023 Notes edit A Commonweal story discussed the available statistics and the use of the term postpubescent It quoted a well known study The largest group of alleged victims 50 9 was between the ages of 11 and 14 27 3 were 15 17 16 were 8 10 and nearly 6 were under age 7 Overall 81 of victims were male and 19 female It concluded that since 73 percent of all victims were under 14 years of age the label pedophilia was appropriate and the label homosexual was not 30 The child Bart asks his mother if their family can become Catholic and she replies No one is going Catholic Three children is enough thank you 39 The plot concerned a pair of angels banished from heaven to Wisconsin who devise a scheme to win re admittance to heaven 41 References edit San Antonio December 23 2007 Huckabee angers some Catholics Reuters Archived from the original on September 24 2015 Retrieved June 30 2017 Hagee has a history of denigrating the Catholic religion said Bill Donohue president of the Catholic League Bill January 18 2011 About Us Catholic League Retrieved September 29 2020 a b Vitello Paul May 14 2009 A Marine for Catholics Sees a Time of Battle The New York Times Retrieved March 27 2014 National Association of Scholars Contact Us 2009 Archived from the original on December 5 2009 Retrieved November 23 2009 Catholic League s Bill Donohue Keynote Speaker at CCI Awards Banquet January 18 2011 Retrieved March 25 2014 AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW Novecosky Patrick October 1 2013 Summit Speaker Bill Donohue Legatus Magazine Retrieved March 25 2014 a b PC on Earth Happy Holidays er Merry Christmas from this Catholic watchdog USA Today December 24 2006 Retrieved March 25 2014 Politics and Catholicism America April 8 2000 Retrieved March 29 2014 a b Tomasky Michael April 1 2010 William Donohue wrong on abuse The Guardian UK Retrieved March 25 2014 a b c d Rich Frank December 11 2010 Gay Bashing at the Smithsonian The New York Times Retrieved March 31 2014 Al Qaeda Group Claims Responsibility for Paris Terror Attack January 9 2015 Retrieved September 29 2020 Lucy Cormack January 8 2015 Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier crossed off chilling al Qaeda hitlist The Age Victoria Ward January 7 2015 Murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonist was on al Qaeda wanted list The Telegraph Retrieved January 8 2015 a b Josh Feldman January 8 2015 Hugh Hewitt Rips Apart Bill Donohue over Charlie Hebdo Stop Victim Blaming Mediaite Dolan Eric W January 7 2015 Catholic League chief Charlie Hebdo editor got himself murdered by being a narcissist Rawstory Archived from the original on January 7 2015 Retrieved January 8 2015 Arturo Garcia January 8 2015 Megyn Kelly puts Bill Donohue in his place by linking Larry Flynt and Charlie Hebdo RawStory Archived from the original on January 9 2015 Retrieved January 10 2015 Josh Feldman January 8 2015 Megyn Kelly Schools Catholic League s Bill Donohue on the First Amendment Mediaite Davide Weigel January 10 2015 The New Right Left Free Speech Battle Lines Bloomberg Politics The Unsubtle Mind of Hugh Hewitt Crisis Magazine January 13 2015 Retrieved July 6 2023 Pope on Paris You cannot insult the faith of others USA TODAY Retrieved July 6 2023 Bill Donohue wages climate war with Pope Francis over Catholics right to use air conditioning June 18 2015 Archived from the original on June 23 2015 Bill Donohue says Pope should not speak on climate June 10 2015 Archived from the original on June 23 2015 CHURCH STATE SEPARATION NOW BEMOANED Catholic League June 19 2015 Archived from the original on June 20 2015 a b Tom Watkins February 27 2014 Catholic League president spars with CNN s Cuomo over Arizona marriage CNN Also on Real Clear Politics Andrew Kirell April 12 2013 Catholic Leader Battles With Current Host Marriage Is Not About Love Or Making People Happy Mediaite Cramb Auslan May 21 2009 Sex abuse endemic in Catholic institutions encliticcopula May 30 2009 Bill Donohue defends child abuse 2 2 archived from the original on December 13 2021 retrieved March 22 2016 Hysteria over Irish Clergy Abuse Catholic League Press release May 20 2009 Retrieved March 25 2014 Gallicho Grant January 14 2006 The politics of statistics Commonweal Retrieved March 25 2014 John Jay Study Undermined by Its Own Data NCR June 6 2011 Retrieved September 29 2020 Bill Donohue August 16 2018 PENNSYLVANIA GRAND JURY REPORT DEBUNKED PDF Catholic League Catholic League pushes back on predator priest scandal August 17 2018 Donohue Bill 2021 The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse Clarifying the Facts and the Causes Ignatius Press ISBN 978 1621644859 Romanowski William D 2012 Reforming Hollywood How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the Movies Oxford University Press p 205 ISBN 9780199969180 Littlefield Kinney November 29 1997 Abc Takes On Nothing Sacred Episodes Sun Sentinel Archived from the original on March 4 2016 Retrieved March 27 2014 Jurkowitz Mark October 2 1997 Catholic League president leads attack on Nothing Sacred Baltimore Sun Retrieved March 27 2014 Pinsky Mark I 2007 The Gospel According to the Simpsons Louisville Kentucky Westminster John Know Press pp 129 30 ISBN 9780664231606 Pinsky Mark I 2007 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24 2014 South Park creators banned from showing Muhmmad USA Today April 13 2006 Retrieved March 24 2014 A frequent South Park critic William Donohue of the anti defamation group Catholic League called on Parker and Stone to resign out of principle for being censored Donaldson Evans Catherine October 29 2007 Christian Groups Claim Pro Atheist Stealth Campaign in Nicole Kidman Fantasy Film The Golden Compass Fox News Archived from the original on November 19 2012 Retrieved March 27 2014 Is The Golden Compass Too Anti Christian or Not Anti Christian Enough New York Magazine October 16 2007 Retrieved October 18 2007 Friedman Josh December 7 2007 Signs hint Compass may miss blockbuster territory Los Angeles Times Retrieved March 31 2014 Cooperman Alan December 7 2005 Holiday Cards Ring Hollow for Some on Bushes List Washington Post Retrieved March 24 2014 Mandell Nina December 2 2010 Getting into the Christmas spirit Billboards over Lincoln Tunnel debate existence of religion New York Daily 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FOR WEINER PROBE Catholic League Edelman Adam September 13 2017 Hillary Clinton I Was Dumbfounded When Comey Reopened Email Probe NBC News Foran Clare May 2 2017 Why Hillary Clinton Thinks She Lost the Election The Atlantic Donohue Bill June 2014 IRELAND S MASS GRAVE HYSTERIA PDF Catholic League TUAM CRITICS ON ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE Catholic League March 16 2017 Donohue Bill April 2017 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW IRISH NUNS MASS GRAVE HOAX Catholic League Schemo Diana Jean March 2 2000 Catholics Minimize Impact Of Bush Visit to Bob Jones The New York Times Retrieved March 29 2014 Alvarez Lizette March 13 2000 Rancor Over Selection of Chaplain Builds in the House The New York Times Retrieved March 29 2014 Catholic is named new House chaplain Deseret News March 24 2000 Retrieved March 29 2014 Let Buchanan Stand Alone at Bob Jones Catholic League Press release September 14 2000 Retrieved March 29 2014 Ashcroft and Bob Jones University Much Ado About Nothing Catholic League January 2 2001 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Inspiration The New York Times Retrieved March 24 2014 Museum removes portrait of crucifix covered in ants The Daily Telegraph December 2 2010 Retrieved March 24 2014 Itzkoff David December 1 2010 National Portrait Gallery Removes Video Criticized for Religious Imagery The New York Times Retrieved March 24 2014 Gay Portraiture Exhibit Sparks Funding Debate NPR December 2 2010 Retrieved March 28 2014 Kennicott Philip December 16 2010 At N Y event Hide Seek curators try to keep art on agenda but can t avoid culture war Washington Post Retrieved March 31 2014 Otterman Sharon September 28 2012 Catholic Leader Is Turned Away at Exhibit He Deemed Offensive The New York Times Retrieved March 24 2014 Catholic League s 2003 Report on Anti Catholicism Archived from the original on December 28 2008 Bauer Gary Bill Maher Bigot Archived December 21 2008 at the Wayback Machine April 28 2008 Human Events Limbaugh David Persecution How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity p 292 2003 Regnery 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