People and organizations that William Donohue from the Catholic League has accused of being “bigoted” or “bigots”.
Update
Just updated the list to keep it current.
Bill Maher
John Hagee
Carnegie Hall
ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson
KCPW, Utah’s National Public Radio station
Philip Pullman & The Golden Compass
National Secular Society
Scholastic Corp.
David E. Kelley
Molson Coors Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company
Kathy Griffin
The Washington Post
The Louisiana Democratic Party
Florida attorney Loring Spolter
Walnut Creek Community Church
The Buffalo City Council
The Elites
Robin Williams
The California Assembly
Rosie O’Donnell
Barbara Walters
Joy Behar
Rev. Al Sharpton
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The View
American Atheist bloggers, Tony Auth and Julianne Malveaux.
Penn Jillette
Some teacher in Georgia
University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre, Arts and Dance
The Ford Foundation
Frances Kissling, head of Catholics for a Free Choice
Catholic Democrats
Blogger Amanda Marcotte
Blogger Melissa McEwan (Shakesville)
CBS
Non-christians during Christmas
One anonymous
Attorney Jeffrey Anderson of St. Paul, Minnesota
DePaul professor Norman G. Finkelstein
MoveOn.org
The University of Minnesota
John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University
The Helen Hayes Theatre in New York
Seattle’s ACT Theatre
Arianna Huffington
Christopher Hitchens
Ted Turner
Hollywood
Madonna
Author Malachy McCourt
Michael Savage
The Boston Globe
South Park
The Chicago Sun Times
The Telegraph Herald
Adele Cohen from the New York State Assembly
The Chicago Tribune
Catholics for a Free Choice
Hillary Clinton
The Fairness Foundation
Aidan Quinn
Land’s End
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority
Two and a Half Men
Tyler Cabot
The law firm of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Schleifer, Weinstein & Winkler
ABC-TV Affiliate (KOMO)
Molly Ivins
Ken Schram, a commentator for the ABC affiliate in Seattle
New York mayoral hopeful Fernando Ferrer
KABC radio talk-show host Kim Serafin
Senator Dianne Feinstein
NPR’s Lynn Neary
Associated Press
Louis Farrakhan
Showtime
Penn & Teller
Terry McAuliffe
The Democratic National Convention
Howard Dean
George Soros
San Francisco
Pete Leon, an aide to Congressman Eliot L. Engel
HBO
No bigots today, but check back tomorrow
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
Linda DiLeo, Principal of Central School in IL
The University of Alabama’s Office of Cultural Diversity
KUSA-TV, Denver NBC affiliate
The Nightingale Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Village Voice
Mitch Albom
John R. MacArthur from Harper’s Magazine
Garry Wills
Maureen Dowd
Thomas Friedman
Margaret Carlson
Sheryl McCarthy
Sidney Blumenthal
Sean Wilentz
Lt. Gen. William Boykin
Forward, a Jewish newspaper
Mara Vanderslice
Newsday
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights
The Democratic Party
Lenny Bruce
Hannukah
Kwanza
Indiana University Law Professor Florence Roisman
PETA
Anti-Defamation League
American Jewish Congress
Atty. Jay Milano
Teachers’ Unions
Prominent African American Leaders
The Senate Judiciary Committee
Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
The X-Men
A coalition of liberal organizations
Pennsylvania chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
Democratic Congressman Gary Ackerman
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Attorney John Aretakis
HSBC USA
Thomas Duane, a gay state senator from New York
City of Philadelphia
Brigitte Boisselier, the head of Clonaid
Attorney Richard Lustgarten
Boston Public (TV Show)
Balboa Park officials in San Diego
Americans United
Tampa Tribune columnist Daniel Ruth
MadTV
Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger
Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers
District Attorney Lynne Abraham
Michigan State University
Too many columnists and cartoonists
Radical feminists
National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy
Dennis Miller
Ian McKellen
The “John and Ken Show,†a KFI radio program in Los Angeles
Palm Beach Post
Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers
Arizona Governor Jane Hull
The Girl Scouts
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
Lion’s Gate
The BBC
Howard Stern
Beliefnet
“A Love Divided”
The play “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You.â€
Abercrombie & Fitch
Florida Atlantic University
Salon.com
60 Minutes
Planned Parenthood
Detroit Free Press
Bob Jones University
The Media
Democratic congressman James P. Moran
The Washington DC Council
Al Roker
Artist Robert Gober
Woody Allen
1997 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Dario Fo
Slate.com
The Whitney Museum
Refuse and Resist
ACLU
Speaking in non-catholic places of worship
White-collar miscreants
The Chaplain Search Committee
Becker
Suddenly Susan
The West Wing
Republicans
“End of Days”
“All About My Mother”
Dogma
Peter F. Vallone, Speaker of the New York City Council
New York
Jesse Ventura
Brooklyn Museum of Art
“Julien Donkey-Boy”
Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice)
PA State Rep. Joseph Preston, Jr.
James Hormel
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Ted Turner
American Atheists
Hunter College Newspaper
American Cancer Society
Geoffrey Fieger, Dr. Kevorkian’s former lawyer
Levi Strauss
National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
Ally McBeal
In Seattle, Washington, a coffee shop called the Coffee Messiah
Terrence McNally’s play, ‘Corpus Christi.’
The Washington Times
Hustler
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
“That’s Life”
The president of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Software from Microsoft
State University of New York (SUNY)
“Nothing Sacred”
MTV
MAD Magazine
“Agnes of God”
The Air Force Academy
Jay Leno’s writers
The Cavalier Daily (Univ. of Virginia’s student newspaper)
The Florida Constitution
Judge Robert Conrad
Florida public schools
The Chicago Tribune’s Katha Pollitt
Comments
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WHAT GIVES?!
j/k of course ;-p
Point taken, BUT did you actually read all of them? Because they have a point in the Georgia teacher case.
Who is at the top of the Catholic League, how many points are they clear, and do they have any games in hand ?
Does this league have playoffs, and maybe a trophy at the end of the season ?
Marvin,
I’m pretty sure the Padres dominate the League.
Or maybe the Saints.
Circe,
When you call everyone a bigot, nobody will come running when the big bad wolf bigot really does come.
Dog bless free speech! Just think, there was a time when all these silly accusations had a burning stake behind them. Always remember that about the Catholic church.
Man, some of my favorite groups/people are on this list, I must be doing something right if it pisses off the ‘Catholic League’ so much
It looks like he hates all Democrats, all liberals, all news organizations and Howard Stern!
/Actually, it looks he’s calling for a Catholic fatwa against anybody who ever said anything bad about Catholics. I’m sure just hasn’t gotten around to the rest. You’re gonna a bigger website to fit all those in.
That’s alotta hate. Sorry you didn’t make the list Cynical Chris. There’s always next time.
That certainly is a big list. Kudos to you, dearest blogmeister, for having the patience to write and link all that out. Quite humorous as well.
wow. what a list. you’d think that the ‘pure and divine’ catholic church could rise above such petty worldly inconveniences as the odd jab from hollywood and washington. oh, well. no one ever expects the spanish inquisition.
What I especially like about the Catholic League is that it is apparently Bill Donohue and…………….a bunch of people who put their name in for good luck. Seriously. Does anyone else ever show up or do anything with this group?
Check out the one about Robin Williams.
That is a VERY interesting attitude, as if being gay is a crime at least as serious as pedophilia. The Catholic church is just out of touch with civilization!
As an expert on Catholic League press releases now, I can say that I came across one other name than good ole Billy in hundreds of releases.
DaveS,
It was especially fun to go through the releases during 2002, 2003 during the whole Cardinal Law protecting the pedophiles era. It was always the homosexuals’ fault.
The main definition of bigot (which Mr. Donahue calls almost everyone):
bigot
Main Entry:
big·ot Listen to the pronunciation of bigot
Pronunciation:
\ˈbi-gət\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French, hypocrite, bigot
Date:
1660
: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance
What, no George Carlin!?
Moon, you’ve brought the joy of laughter into my life. Granted it’s not the kind of happy innocent laughter that I’d generally prefer but it was still one hell of a laugh
As for blaming homosexuals…they blamed women for original sin, they blamed the jews for killing their lord (yes, I’m aware that, going by the book, it was the romans but I mostly hear the jews taking the blame on this) and after their silent consent of the slave trade they don’t dare blame other races (especially not with the current war already making use of peoples fear of humans who look different). Now that it’s generally considered socially acceptable to be gay (in so much as we won’t stone you but you can’t get married or join the military) the homosexual population makes a magnificent scapegoat. It’s not that there’s a problem with not letting grown men engage in consensual sex with people of legal age, it’s that the gays have invaded catholicism.
Marvin, its the Catholic league, its only a fantasy league
Thanks for illustrating so nicely what’s so funny about the Hagee/Donohue/McCain Conservative Deathmatch!
The West Wing? The President was a Catholic! And a pretty good guy. I miss him…
I’m going to start a parody called the Scientologist League. Same thing, but with Xenu & L. Ron. Its purpose will be to show the public how preposterous Bill Donohue is.
How do i get on this list? Donohue is a joke. He makes a fool of himself everytime he opens his mouth. Society is evolving away from the hate he spews. I pray for the rapture. Please come and take these fruit cakes away.
where’s the catholic church in this list?
To be fair, I would agree with him about Al Sharpton.
To DaveS:
Donohue’s remark about Robin Williams in no way suggests that homosexuality is a crime. You need a remedial course in understanding plain English. Also, if a victim is a male beyond the age of puberty, then ANY sex act with an adult male would be tecnically a homosexual act. I think the bigots list should contain most of those who wrote replies.