Catholic League president Bill Donohue told reporters he won’t be attending the Saturday wedding of New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, because  it’s not a “real” wedding, apparently.
“The people who go know they are not witnessing a wedding,” Donohue said. “I will be at a bar watching the Preakness. The horses are a lot more fun – and it’s real.” Donohue was so impressed with himself he immortalized his words into Twitter.
(I don’t know why, but I feel like there was a bestiality dig there. I’m sure I’m mistaken.)
Donohue, who chances are, like same-sex marriage opponent Democratic Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., was not invited to Saturday’s nuptials. The “historic wedding,” as AM New York mentions, “will be a huge win for gay rights,” and “the highest-profile same-sex wedding involving a politician that the city has seen.”
Donohue, who has never demonstrated publicly a modicum of decency or humanity, has gone too far this time, even for him.
His comments, like, “Yes, there’s a connection between Irish and alcoholism, and, yes, there’s a connection between homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors,” are, sadly, to be expected.
Donohue equating married equality with Apartheid, as GLAAD noted, is par for the course in the world of anti-gay professionals.
Claiming  AIDS is “self-inflicted” is just the normal course of events for the lying, foul mouthed faux Catholic, whose views are to the right of even the Pope’s.
Falsely suggesting polygamy will be Obama’s next step in his marriage evolution journey is typical, ignorant boilerplate rhetoric beneath even Donohue (not that it stopped him from saying it.)
Positing on a “thought experiment’ of “weeding out“ unborn gay babies is vile, and a new Donohue low.
Attacking Democratic strategist and lesbian Hilary Rosen for because she “had to adopt kids” is ugly but stupid.
But Donohue here has crossed a big line. Donohue is now getting personal on the subject of marriage.
It’s one thing to attack the LGBT community. It’s one thing to attack marriage equality as an institution. It’s an entirely different thing to attack someone’s own wedding, to diminish its importance, to diminish the very meaning of marriage itself.
The Catholic League took in $3.3 million in 2010, and president Bill Donohue’s annual compensation is reportedly $408,000. There is no public record of what the Catholic League does with all its millions — reportedly, it is sitting on a $28 million war chest.
Bill Donohue is the very antithesis of what “catholic” means, and what the Catholic Church stands for — or was supposed to. And if I’m wrong, the Catholic Church is in even more trouble than I thought.
(Hat tip: Joe.My.God.)