Or does Bill Donohue give other people a jumping case of the creeping wiggins too?
Doesn’t Bill Donohue have anything better to do than to troll the internet looking for bloggers who offend him and then release his hoard of minions upon them?
He claims the mantel of defender of the faith.
Huh. Seems to me that nothing defames a group with quite as much panache as does treating them like a flock of flying monkeys.
Winner of the “Bill Donohue nose-out-of-joint award” (so far) the story is from 2007:
My personal favorite is Cosimo Cavallero, a Christian and a Catholic, who decided to sculpt Christ in the most treasured and loved substance in the Western world. A substance synonymous with love: Chocolate. Donohue sicced his raving hoards of lunatics against this man. Apparently, chocolate does not symbolize the same thing for Donohue that it does for Cavallero, but Donohue isn’t able to let it go at that. He PROJECTS his thoughts and ideas into Cavallero’s head, and judges Cavallero by his own sick standards.
You might have argued that Cavallero could have thought it through and realized that a small segment of his audience would take the long and twisty road to offense…but why? If you are not setting out to offend, if that’s not where your head is, why would you think that casting Jesus in a substance you associate with sweetness, love, childhood comfort, Easter, etc would at all make people think you were inviting people to fillate Jesus?
Cosimo says that he wanted to evoke in people the sensation of sweetness as they viewed his chocolate Jesus. To give them a sensory response to the idea.
You should actually follow the link and read the transcript of the interview with Anderson Cooper, to get an idea of what we are dealing with; violent, childish, mean, tantrum-throwing school-yard bullies bludgeoning people with religion. And over a Chocolate Jesus.
It’s quite plain in this interview that it’s not about Jesus. It’s not about religion. It’s about power. It’s about “what I can do to you” and “how I am better than you” and about “you have no power to defend yourself”.
Particularly at the end:
C. CAVALLARO: I got to tell you something, there's more filth that comes out of your mouth…
DONAHUE: Is that right?
C. CAVALLARO: Yes — than I have seen…
(CROSSTALK)
DONAHUE: Look, you lost. You know what? You put your middle finger at the Catholic Church, and we just broke it, didn't we, pal?
C. CAVALLARO: No. You're wrong. You're wrong.
DONAHUE: Yes, we did. You lost.
C. CAVALLARO: I have a lot of believers.
DONAHUE: We — we won. You're out of a job.
C. CAVALLARO: And I'm a Christian. And there's a lot of people like me, who are opposed to what you're doing, because you made a big…
DONAHUE: Yes? But I got a job, and you don't.
C. CAVALLARO: You made a — "I got a job, and you don't"?
DONAHUE: Yes.
C. CAVALLARO: You're acting like a 5-year-old.
DONAHUE: I got a job, and you don't.
C. CAVALLARO: You're talking — you're acting like a 5-year-old. And I feel sorry for you.
COOPER: All right. We're going to — we're…
DONAHUE: Well, I won on this, and you lost, didn't you?
COOPER: Well, let's — let's leave it there.
You both expressed your opinions.
Bill Donahue, appreciate you being with — and, Cosimo Cavallaro, appreciate it as well. Thank you, sir.
C. CAVALLARO: Thank you, Anderson.