"Vile" episode of South Park Pulled
It's a new year and look at the crap I have to come back to. Bill Donohue, who's kind of like a right-wing version of Phil Donahue, and the Catholic League complained about an episode of South Park and Comedy Central wussed out and pulled the repeat episode.
Where do I even begin. First off, everyone who knows me knows that I've pretty much become a radical Catholic in the last year, so as a radical Catholic, let me say that William Donohue DOES NOT speak for me. He's basically a guy who goes on Fox and CNN and yells a lot. He does much more harm for his faith than good. He's also one of the guys who led the "Happy Holidays" protest of Wal-Mart.
Here's the worst part. Protests and TV bans accomplish nothing positive for Catholicism. Instead, they make they typical Catholic look no better than a Bible thumping Fundamentalist. Also, people like Donohue should realize that Catholics are in the minority in this country. If Catholics who yell loud enough have the power to control a private organization such as Time Warner (parent company of Comedy Central) if they see something they don't like, then what is going to happen when the Protestants of this country, who are the majority, decide to do the same and force a company like Time Warner into banning programming that they consider blasphemous, such as EWTN?
Link: Catholic League: Vile "South Park" Episode Pulled
Where do I even begin. First off, everyone who knows me knows that I've pretty much become a radical Catholic in the last year, so as a radical Catholic, let me say that William Donohue DOES NOT speak for me. He's basically a guy who goes on Fox and CNN and yells a lot. He does much more harm for his faith than good. He's also one of the guys who led the "Happy Holidays" protest of Wal-Mart.
Here's the worst part. Protests and TV bans accomplish nothing positive for Catholicism. Instead, they make they typical Catholic look no better than a Bible thumping Fundamentalist. Also, people like Donohue should realize that Catholics are in the minority in this country. If Catholics who yell loud enough have the power to control a private organization such as Time Warner (parent company of Comedy Central) if they see something they don't like, then what is going to happen when the Protestants of this country, who are the majority, decide to do the same and force a company like Time Warner into banning programming that they consider blasphemous, such as EWTN?
Link: Catholic League: Vile "South Park" Episode Pulled



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