Comments on The Latest Anti-Catholic Outrage

But what about your friend Mr. Sullivan? Surely he thinks it's tasteless and unnecessary. I really, really want to know!

he also went after madonna's concert and the folsom street fair

I always wish I had been an artist.

Aw, please. Soft-porn? Are these the people that demand pants on Michelangelo's David?

He doesn't want you to take him seriously. He wants his coterie of nutcases to send him more cash. These outrages of his accomplish that quite well, I imagine.

Dan, are you the only person who gets these bulletins from Donohue? If you weren't talking about his outrage all the time on here I would be blissfully unaware he even existed.

The whole concept of free speech seems to escape Mr. Donahue. Blasphemy is Constitutionally protected speech. Bringing back laws against blasphemy would be a dangerous step toward theocracy.

Donahue's episode of South Park was on last night, which I'd somehow never seen before. The only funny part was when Jesus ordered Kyle to kill him.

Donahue's been around FOREVER. It's only been in recent years that he's gotten any attention.

My Dad was a very devout Catholic, albeit of the Jesuit-y type, and he thought Donahue was a nutcase with only a handful of followers. (and you didn't even want to get him started on the evils of Opus Dei)

I don't know why Donahue is suddenly being given all this attention.

Because outrage sells, Catalina. Even (especially?) phony outrage.

Wow, I'll bet Mr. Donahue must be totally apoplectic over this.

I mean, how DARE someone depict a naked man and God in the same image!

It's blasphemy! Blasphemy, I tells ya'!

Fair enough, but would you post things that Muslims might find offensive? Or are you afraid of being bombed? I'm serious.

Donahue says that the ad agency would NEVER make an ad like this with Muslim women in veils; and I have to grudgingly admit that he's actually got a great idea. That would be a WAY better ad. Or at least, a way better piece of art.

You know, Bill Donohue is basically a real life troll, and you know what to do with trolls.

Those "Nuns" are Hawt!

If I stalked that model and told him he had a super hot body, do you think he would hold it against me?

Why doesn't it say "amen" instead of "happily ever"? I think they've really missed an opportunity here, and I'm outraged.

HOT!

Michael S @16: no more country music for you.

"Donahue says that the ad agency would NEVER make an ad like this with Muslim women in veils"

But Muslim women in veils are not the cultural icon that Nuns in traditional habits are. Which is sort of ironic, since the vast majority of nuns gave up the outfits back in the '60's, but there you are.

Personally, I blame "The Sound of Music"

Fuck. Is this why my membership to Equinox is so expensive? I thought it was because Anderson Cooper is always hogging the elliptical machines

I used to belong to Equinox. In complete honesty, half the guys at the 19th Street location looked like that. Not that any of the other guys noticed, but half the women were the female equivalent. If it weren't $130/month, they wouldn't need to advertise at all.

hot nun? they should be elderly, which they all are now anyways (or filipina, take your pick), that would make for a more honest AND intriguing piece of art.

Why didn't they get upset about The Simpsons episode a few years ago? In that one, Homer attends the Superbowl and a commercial is shown where a bunch of sexy (presumably nuns) come out of a gas station to service a car. As they fill it with gas and wipe down its windshield, a crucifix pops out of the cleavage of one of them and a voice over says, "The Catholic Church....we've made a few changes." Where was the outrage? Think of the children!

Fnarf, i stopped listening to country music after i found out Garth Brooks was a pass around party bottom...

@12: What's your point? Catholics are supposed to know better.

I think I need to study that image in greater detail to determine my personal degree of outrage. Where can I get a poster of it? For educational purposes, only, of course.

(Betcha Fadda Bill has one on the wall of his office.)

at first i was confused. then i realized bill donahue ≠ phil donahue. btw, i wonder what PHIL would think of this? (and not DR. phil)

yeah, not having "amen" and filipina nuns in the ad were disappointing. agreed.

also, what if the genders were reversed, ie priests or brothers sketching a nun (and not a fake nun)?

;)

Are they all staring at his crotch? Or is he just projecting based on what he wishes he could see?

@19:

Huh, and here I thought he was quoting
a Monty Python sketch.

That is an exquisite ass.

I have nothing more to add.