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Catholics Slam Bloggers…

February 8th 2007 15:42

You can take the title for what it’s worth and could possibly mean or not mean. However, I will tell you what it is supposed to mean. Catholics have their panties in a bunch over 2 bloggers hired by the Edwards campaign to blog for Edwards. Enter one Bill Donahue…no not the guy that used to have a talk show. That was PHIL Donahue. Bill Donahue is the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Apparently they got word that the 2 women bloggers for Edwards weren’t very PC or even nice in a few blogs they were writing. It highly offended the Catholics because it made lewd references to the blessed Mother and other things. This man DEMANDS that Mr. Edwards fires the 2 women IMEDIATELY.

The women that are the center of this story are Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. McEwan posts at Shakespeare’s Sister and apparently Mr. Donahue found a blog she wrote back in Feb of 2006 where “She questioned what religious conservatives don't understand about 'keeping your noses out of our britches, our beds and our families?'” Marcotte writes on Pandagon where apparently on Dec of 2006 she wrote “The Catholic church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics.”

First of all…I think Mr. Donahue needs to get his head out of his butt and realize that Catholics are always a topic of discussion on many fronts and that the 2 blogs written by 2 women are just a drop in the bucket. Second, is he so smug that he can’t see that the Catholic Church normally brings things on themselves without any help from bloggers or anyone else? I think this guy has been drinking too much holy wine if he things Mr. Edwards should be responsible for what these women blogged on BEFORE he hired them! Blogging is a big business now and most bloggers don’t hold back with their thoughts or opinions on anything. That’s the great thing about blogging…it’s not the same as being a journalist because your blog is YOUR OPINION, not facts or news to make other look bad.

I actually saw Mr. Donahue on the Tucker Carlson show on MSNBC yesterday. He basically called the women bigots and used some other choice non-PC words then turned around and made a discriminatory comment about Muslims. They do not have the transcripts for yesterday’s show up yet, and I can’t remember his exact words to quote him….but never-the-less, he basically called the women bigots and trash talkers, then in the same breath commented about how Muslims would be treated better than Catholics have been. But like I said…no transcripts for exact wording, but here is the link to the site: Tucker

**UPDATED: The transcripts were posted and Mr. Donahue said "If you take a look at some of the stuff on the blogosphere that‘s said about Christians in general, Catholics in particular, it‘s absolutely mind boggling. Muslims are given more respect." Reading it doesn't do it justice because you can't hear or see how he acted when saying that about Muslims. The way he said it on the show made it sound like Catholics should get way more respect than a dirty Muslim. He then began back-peddling right away to try to make it sound "less harsh". I don't think Mr. Donahue has any right to cast stones at anyone.

So what’s this guys beef with these women? Is it because of the comments they made about the Pope, the Church, the holy Mother, and abortion or are they being targeted only because Mr. Edwards’ campaign hired them as bloggers? I’m going to go with the 2nd answer. I think this guy has nothing better to do but complain about what 2 women wrote prior to being part of the Edwards campaign.

What’s even more interesting is how he was the one that came out against the Joan Osborne song “One of Us” because he thought it was “Catholic-baiting” and sacrilegious. This supposed good God-fearing man needs to check himself on his own bigotry and hate speech, not to mention, when did he become the expert on what hate speech is?

I fully support John Edwards for President and have signed up to support his campaign when I heard he was going to run. His website is fabulous and is very technologically advanced (for a Presidential campaign) yet friendly and easy to understand. He has had several live streaming broadcasts, one of which he took email questions while you watched. His family has a running diary and there is an entire list of blogs and supporting bloggers. So I suppose Mr. Donahue and his “friends” spent hours on end searching each and every blog back to the very first post on each and finally stumbled across these 2 women with blogs that were written pre-Edwards. He needs to get a life and get on with it. I too have tried to sign up to be a Edwards blogger using my this site…non-paid of course. Heaven forbid my link ever gets listed on the campaign site….Mr. Donahue’s head would explode over some of the things I’ve written. I’m sure I would be the biggest bigot known to man and a heathen, and he would be on the “hotline” to the Pope to pray for my damned soul.

If for some reason I suddenly disappear and stop posting to my blog…be afraid…..that means “they” got me! I can see a team of Catholic priests and Cardinals dressed in their finest with black masks to conceal their identity, busting into my home late in the night to wisk me away to the Vatican for interrogation. Just check my room for the broken rosary beads.

If you want to know more interesting facts about Mr. Bigot….I mean, Mr. Donahue then take a look at his Wikipedia profile. He’s been a busy, busy man. He has slammed Joan Osborne, the movie Dogma, Marilyn Manson, an ABC show called “Nothing Sacred”, all of Hollywood in general (comments he made on Scarborough Country), President Bush sending out “holiday” cards, TV show CSI, Muslims, Gays, South Park, and many others. One he did side with was Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ”. Imagine my surprise.
Donahue on Wikipedia

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The Case of the Whining Christians

January 31st 2007 19:37

If you’ve read any of my recent blogs about Muslims whining about things, well apparently the Christians were beginning to feel left out. Let me paint the picture for you:

There was a Pagan Pride festival being held at Richmond Hills Park (Grand Rapids). This is something that takes place across the country in various cities and times of the year. Pagans hold a “pride” festival to show what their religious beliefs actually are and to try to promote religious tolerance in the community. Plus, Pagans can get together in the open and not feel like they have to scurry around in the darkness of night under cloaks and veils. Instead they pay for a permit and have a festival in a local park. So, now enter the holier-than-thou Christian group. They decide to attend the festival, but not to show support. Instead they wanted to spread their own word by using a wooden platform, but no microphones or amplifiers. You can only imagine what they wanted to get on their soap box and “speak” about, right?

Now enter the Grand Rapids police. A sergeant told the Christian group they could not do what they were doing without a permit….kind of like what the Pagan group had to do. So he basically told them that they were disturbing the peace and had to leave. This is when the Allied Defense Fund attorneys step into the picture. Apparently one of the Christians stated that they were forcefully pulled from the platform, handcuffed, and then placed in the back of the cop car. The remaining members of the group were then threatened with arrest if they did not leave the park.

Here is where the Christian group begins whining. The group was supposedly told that even if they tried for a permit, it would not be given because of the apparently conflict of interest between them and the festival goers. So what do they do except team up with the Allied Defense Fund and whine about it. That’s a great idea. Now a complaint has been filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan. They claim “Religious speech is protected under the First Amendment and cannot be silenced because of a city-imposed permit requirement,” according to Wenger an attorney for the ADF. Do you want to hear the kicker? The name of the Christian group that was trying to enforce their freedom of speech rights is named “The Worldwide Street Preachers’ Fellowship”. That should tell you right there what they were up to by “attending” the Pagan event.

So whine away little Christians. In my personal opinion I think it’s asinine that they not only attempted it but then also got an attorney so they could complain about it. Maybe next time the Christians are having something outside in celebration of Jesus then a group of Pagans, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and even Atheists should try to disrupt their celebration and cry freedom of speech and religion. I’m sure they would get their panties in a bunch over that, now wouldn’t they?

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