Catholic League President Attacks Murdered Cartoonists: Charlie Hebdo ‘Perverts Freedom’
Source: Think Progress
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While journalists and free speech advocates across the country rally in support of free press following the murder of twelve French journalists at Charlie Hebdo this week, the leader of a U.S. Catholic group is blaming the satirical newspaper’s staff for “the kind of intolerance that provoked this violent reaction.”
In a blog post Wednesday and then a follow-up post Thursday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue said the cartoonists’ “obscene portrayal of religious figures” represents an “abuse of freedom” — missing the fact that the First Amendment to the Constitution in the U.S and a similar law in France both guarantee freedom of speech and of the press.
“Freedom of speech is not an end—it is a means to an end,” Donohue wrote on the Catholic League website. “For Americans, the end is nicely spelled out in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution… No fair-minded reading of the Preamble suggests that it was written to facilitate the right to intentionally and persistently insult people of faith with scatological commentary.”
Donohue also specifically singles out the paper’s publisher Stephane Charbonnier, who was killed by the two shooters on Wednesday. “It is too bad that he didn’t understand the role he played in his tragic death,” Donohue said.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/01/08/3609637/donohue-charlie-hebdo/
The one-man, hackneyed Catholic League, who gets the vapors every time David Bowie or a musician pokes fun of Catholicism or people accurately point out the sex abuse scandals of the church, but gives his friend Rush Limbaugh a pass and defends him for calling Pope Francis a communist.
Naturally, Bill would side with the rightwing fundie murderers. Thank God the church is taking steps to move away from his conservative ilk under the current pope.
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WOW -
But it's an interesting question people should probably be asking themselves - Is what I'm doing really worth kicking a hornets nest?
I try to stay clear of people that are FN crazy. To basically call them out is tantamount to declaring jihad on their religion. And call me a coward, or weak-kneed, but I am very good at self-survival brought about from knowing where the hornets nests are and avoiding them like the plague.
While the magazine people (victims) should not be blamed in this, they were aware of the possibility of something like this happening as we've seen it before. So while I don't blame them, and 100% blame the murderers, I can't help but feel that being respectful of others could have avoided this outcome.
Flame me if you want, but I'm just expressing my thought process. If you don't agree, please do so without insults. 
Tu es completement débile 
This right wing hypocrite has no concept to what free speech is about, and to cast dispersion on someone that was and used his or her free speech rights and is dead for being satirical against the powers in charge just shows the hypocrisy that this so called priest enjoys on Fix Noise.
He should be defrocked.
He then can get a job on Fix Noise and sit right along with whomever is on the big white couch spreading more fear and hate.
That he goes on an empire /oligarchy, that is nothing more than a propaganda format for more hate and fear---go figure, look at what this empire of evil really does, people are really getting tired of this stuff coming out these hypocrites mouths.
Maybe this twit should read his churches history and go back to the Spanish Inquisition under the leadership of the Roman Catholic church (you know the state within in a state called the Roman Empire that is still in existence from by gone days in Italy, they condoned crucifixions as a form of law ) torturing another human for being a non-Catholic.
At least the current pontiff has a lot of common sense to realize that he is the brother and sister keeper and not this hypocrite.
"The Church can do no wrong..." 
That's not an issue. See if you can find a controversial moral problem in this discussion. I know you can do it! 
RW will never get used to it 
to become Catholic, deny women healthcare decisions, and persecute gays? Anything else is a bad use for freedom.
