But it *doesn’t work. *Apart from the fact that he is unjust and uncharitable on a regular basis, his approach demonstrably causes people to dismiss the existence of real anti-Catholicism.
He’s the classic embodiment of the boy who called “wolf!”
He’s not alone. The ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, not to mention CAIR, are open to similar criticisms. But Donohue is particularly outrageous, and the group for which he’s advocating is relatively much more powerful historically than either Jews or blacks (much more comparable to Muslims in this regard), so he gets less of a pass.
Edwin
The bottom line is what he does works.He single handedly through his coordinative efforts made Coors back down from sponsoring the Disgusting Public anti-Catholic Homosexual sex-in in San Franciso.
St John the Baptist wore animal skins,ate grasshoppers and honey and was probably covered in bee stings .He probably stunk to high heaven too,and probably was considered nuttier than a fruit cake by some of his confreres because of all of his in your face preaching.
I could care less about his personality.I tend to defend my faith vociferously and the anti-Catholic or anti-priest joke teller or slanderer at any gathering I attend will be dressed down and publicly embarrassed by yours truly.In addition to being personally devout I wear my Catholicism on my Tshirts and bumperstickers that may be considered tacky by some of my own tribe and seperated brethren,but so what?Jesus Christ was anything but a wimp and I’ve heard Him say some pretty obnoxious things in the Bible and even trash a joint or two.
He is not the only face of Catholicism.I am,and so are all the other Catholics in this world including His Holiness,and there are a lot of us who are obnoxious,irritable,crabby and aggressive,but we will defend Christ,and His Church to the death.What have you done lately to defend Catholicism?Oh,I forgot,you’re not Catholic.
He’s a rough tough two fisted Catholic,the only kind that the world takes notice of today.In you’re opinion he’s too obnoxious but I’ll tell you what,he’s OUR obnoxious Catholic and I and millions of Catholics are grateful to him and his efforts.In fact he reminds me of my late fiercely Irish-Catholic Mother who would brook no criticism of the Faith and who literally threw people from our home for insulting the Church that Christ instituted,sort of like what Jesus did when he saw His father’s house profaned.
The United States has a long sad history of anti-Catholic bigotry and Bill Donahue is but ONE albeit very effective response to it.
