{"id":506299,"date":"2012-03-05T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/bill-donohue\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T23:11:33","slug":"bill-donohue","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/bill-donohue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Donohue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014<\/span>Launched a campaign<\/span><\/a> against the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team over the Dodgers\u2019 inclusion of the queer charity group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team\u2019s 10th annual Pride Night, including a call to boycott the Dodgers, a call to <\/span>California Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins about her invitation to honor the \u201cSisters\u201d on the floor of the Capitol in Sacramento, radio ads, and other activities<\/span>. <\/span>Donohue wrote<\/span><\/a>, \u201cNow [the Dodgers\u2019] is in the business of promoting bigotry, not fighting it,\u201d and <\/span>emailed<\/span><\/a> the league\u2019s commissioner to urge the team to disinvite the group. The Sisters\u2019 community work, for which the Dodgers had planned to honor them with the Community Hero Award, <\/span>includes<\/span><\/a> supporting people with HIV, fighting for justice and equality, feeding the hungry, finding shelter for the unhoused, and raising more than a million dollars for charity, with grace, humor and uncommon compassion. They have the support of <\/span>Catholic leaders<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>real-life sisters<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>elected officials<\/span><\/a>, sports fans and everyday Angelenos. Their costumes, make-up and wit might be irreverent to some, but \u201ccan never trump the works of mercy,\u201d wrote one ordained sister.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Said:<\/a> \u201cNo one doubts that there are men who have, and want to, transition to the other sex, and vice versa, but it is not generally understood that transgender persons are a fiction\u2014they do not exist. These people are more properly known as transsexuals\u2014they are attempting to change their sex. I say attempting because they cannot succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of the Pope: \u201cHe has said that gay marriage is the work of the devil. He has said that gender ideology \u2013 you know, the trans, the trans people? He says that gender ideology is demonic. That is the Pope that I like!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said AIDS is \u201cself-inflicted\u201d<\/a>: \u201cThe fact is that the artist who made the vile video died of self-inflicted wounds: he died of AIDS. The homosexual, David Wojnarowicz, hated the Catholic Church (had he lived by its teachings, he would not have self-destructed).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed same-sex marriage is \u201cone of the most bizarre ideas in human history<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Equated marriage equality with Apartheid<\/a>: \u201cIf people don\u2019t realize what we\u2019re up against here, they may be a minority but you know it was a minority of people in South Africa who took away the rights of Black people. You can be a well-organized minority in this country here such as those on the left, gay and straight alike, and have a tremendous amount of influence if you have this lust and appetite for power.\u201d (15:15\u201315:36)<\/p>\n

\u2014Champion of the organization Courage, which tells gay people that chastity is their only option for a faithful life<\/a>: \u201cThe Catholic outreach program for homosexuals, Courage, has done magnificent work seeking to help homosexuals abide by the Church\u2019s teachings on sexuality\u2026. Courage is not some renegade Catholic group like Dignity: it is an apostolate of the Catholic Church that has won the praise of Pope John Paul II and many others. Its goal is to \u2018help persons with same-sex attractions develop a life of interior chastity in union with Christ.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said \u201cthe only legitimate national gay Catholic group is Courage.<\/a>\u201c Courage is a group that demands gay people choose a celibate life.<\/p>\n

\u2014Despite the existence of gay-affirming faith groups, said<\/a>: \u201cEvery world religion is either opposed to homosexuality or takes no position on it; not one finds it acceptable. So if being opposed to homosexuality makes one phobic, then almost the entire world (throughout all of history) suffers the same malady\u2026. How about adultery and incest\u2014is opposition to them also phobic?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed \u201ctwo men cannot get married. They cannot form a family. It\u2019s a fiction,\u201d and that gay people have been \u201cdisqualified\u201d from forming a family \u201cby nature and nature\u2019s God.\u201d (48:00<\/a>\u201349:00<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u2014Claims<\/a> \u201cit has been empirically obvious that those religions which have experienced the greatest proportionate decline in membership are generally the most progressive or liberal in their teachings\u2026. those religions whose teachings on abortion and marriage approximate the views of the New York Times and NPR are in free fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a>: \u201cThe idea of two men marrying is so bizarre and so anti-marriage that it is a great tribute to the American people that they continue to respect the right of gays to participate in American life without harassment while simultaneously rejecting the extremist gay agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Despite worldwide trends and diversity of portrait, says marriage equality is province of \u201cwhite liberals\u201d<\/a>: \u201cThis is such a bizarre idea, you go to Latin America or Africa or to the Middle East or to Russia or Asia and you ask those people about two men getting married and they\u2019ll look at you like you\u2019re nuts\u2014this is the white man\u2019s burden. This is the white, upper-class, well-educated liberals who decide this is a good idea.\u201d (2:36\u20133:00)<\/p>\n

\u2014Authored a booklet geared at keeping gays out of the Boy Scouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Likened the Supreme Court\u2019s decision overturning the Defense of Marriage act to an \u201casocial vision\u201d where \u201call we have are unhinged individuals, men and women who go about their business willy-nilly, creating and recreating their world, without any collective end.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014In a mid-1990s debate, suggested AIDS was punishment for going against the \u201cnatural order\u201d and likened those seeking a cure to AIDS to smokers seeking a cure for lung cancer. (3:50<\/a>\u20135:10<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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