Bill Donohue

Bill: I’m sorry you’re a pathetic, sad, bigoted, homophobic little man whose contribution to the world has been making it more unloving and less charitable. William (Bill) A. Donohue is the rabid, hate-filled president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. His rhetoric lies somewhere between Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps on the insanity-and-homophobia scale.

He also has said: "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity."

Bill Donohue is divorced. Presumably his direct line to God was instantly disconnected gave him a Get Out of Sin Free card where Matthew 19 is concerned.

His salary for spewing bile has been in the $300,000 to $475,000 range. The League has about $35 million in assets but probably a relatively small membership.

Child rape
Donohue opposed a bill that would have required clergy to report suspected child abuse. Instead, he wanted to see consensual sex between teenagers included as child abuse. If you want to know his extremely logical🇱🇮 stance on child abuse, he attacked the New York Times for running a story about Pope Benedict's refusal to defrock sexual abusers. Donohue claimed that there is no "paedophilia crisis" in the Roman Catholic Church but that there are too many gay people in the priesthood, justifying this claim by saying that since most of the victims were male and "post-pubescent", the abusers were not pedophiles but instead were gay predators. He also tried to defend the Church using possibly the worst ever example of the not as bad as fallacy, claiming in 2018 that:

Donohue also played a part in scuppering a New York State bill that would have made it easier for victims of Catholic child abuse to get compensation. Donohue stated:

Church lobbying and Donohue's claim of victory, in reality, demonstrate the Church's guilt. It's a tacit admission that the child abuse problem and its potential cost to the Church are bigger than we know. It also shows despite promises to fix things, Pope Francis has no plans for justice or compensation for victims. PZ Myers states:

Child deaths
Remains of babies and toddlers who died from neglect in an Irish mother and baby home run by nuns were found dumped in what appears to have been a sewerage system (somehow Catholics do not see this as gravely sinful). Donohue, who refuses to acknowledge that it happened, wrote:

By contrast, Billy Connelly, councillor for the area where the remains were found, stated:

Charlie Hebdo
In January, 2015, after an attack by Islamic extremists on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo resulted in the deaths of 12 people, Bill Donohue engaged in his usual amounts of insanity and blamed the attack on the victims' supposed "provocation" of Muslims. In an article he published on the Catholic League's website, he engaged in character assassination of Charlie Hebdo's editors, effectively justifying the attack that killed them. So while Donohue condemned the attack itself, he essentially said that the Hebdo employees had it coming.

Church discrimination
Donohue not only believes that Catholic businesses should be allowed to discriminate against gay and lesbian employees but that such discrimination is deserved because the employees are purposely violating their contracts by working while gay. He also doesn't think that firing people for being in a same-sex marriage counts as discrimination, or that gay people in Arizona have ever been discriminated against.