Bill Donohue

William (Bill) A. Donohue is the rabid, hate-filled president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. His rhetoric lies somewhere between Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps on the insanity-and-homophobia scale. 
He also has said: "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity."http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6685898/ns/msnbc-about_msnbc_tv/t/scarborough-country-dec/
Bill Donohue is divorced.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/nyregion/15donohue.html?_r=0 Presumably his direct line to God was instantly disconnected gave him a Get Out of Sin Free card where Matthew 19 is concerned.
His salary for spewing bile has been in the $300,000 to $475,000 range. The League has about $35 million in assets but probably a relatively small membership.Catholic League Leader Rakes In Large Salary Despite Small RoleJimRomenesko.com: Bashing the media pays off for conservative Catholic League boss Bill Donohue 
==Child rape==
Donohue opposed a bill that would have required clergy to report suspected child abuse. Instead, he wanted to see consensual sex between teenagers included as child abuse. If you want to know his extremely logical stance on child abuse, he attacked the New York Times for running a story about Pope Benedict's refusal to defrock sexual abusers.Bill Donohue Declares War On the New York Times, Right Wing Watch Donohue claimed that there is no "paedophilia crisis" in the Roman Catholic Church but that there are too many gay people in the priesthood,Catholic Church's issue is homosexuality, not pedophilia, Washington Post justifying this claim by saying that since most of the victims were male and "post-pubescent", the abusers were not pedophiles but instead were gay predators.Bill Donohue: Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal Is Not A Pedophilia Crisis But A Homosexual Crisis He also tried to defend the Church using possibly the worst ever example of the not as bad as fallacy, claiming in 2018 that:
Donohue also played a part in scuppering a New York State bill that would have made it easier for victims of Catholic child abuse to get compensation. Donohue stated:
Church lobbying and Donohue's claim of victory, in reality, demonstrate the Church's guilt. It's a tacit admission that the child abuse problem and its potential cost to the Church are bigger than we know. It also shows despite promises to fix things, Pope Francis has no plans for justice or compensation for victims. PZ Myers states:
==Child deaths==
Remains of babies and toddlers who died from neglect in an Irish mother and baby home run by nuns were found dumped in what appears to have been a sewerage system (somehow Catholics do not see this as gravely sinful).
Donohue, who refuses to acknowledge that it happened, wrote:
By contrast, Billy Connelly, councillor for the area where the remains were found, stated:
==Charlie Hebdo==
In January, 2015, after an attack by Islamic extremists on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo resulted in the deaths of 12 people, Bill Donohue engaged in his usual amounts of insanity and blamed the attack on the victims' supposed "provocation" of Muslims.Muslims are right to be angry, a hitjob piece by Bill Donohue In an article he published on the Catholic League's website, he engaged in character assassination of Charlie Hebdo's editors, effectively justifying the attack that killed them. So while Donohue condemned the attack itself, he essentially said that the Hebdo employees had it coming."After Charlie Hebdo attack, U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists ‘provoked’ slaughter", The Washington Post
==Church discrimination==
Donohue not only believes that Catholic businesses should be allowed to discriminate against gay and lesbian employeesEquality Act is Anti-Christian but that such discrimination is deserved because the employees are purposely violating their contracts by working while gay.Gay Rights – The Left’s Club to Smash Religious Liberty, CNS News He also doesn't think that firing people for being in a same-sex marriage counts as discrimination, or that gay people in Arizona have ever been discriminated against.Bill Donohue needs to ‘see’ gay discrimination before he will believe it exists
==See also==
*Rick Santorum
==External links==
*Just a little negative rant
*Bill Donohue: Blasphemy Rights Day is Anti-Catholic (and Richard Dawkins is Like a KKK Wizard)
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