Bill Donohue: ‘I Want The Law To Discriminate’ Against Same-Sex Couples

[ProSense]

Bill Donohue: ‘I Want The Law To Discriminate’ Against Same-Sex Couples

By Zack Ford

The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue offered some stunning candor last night in a conversation with Piers Morgan and the Human Rights Campaign’s incoming executive director Chad Griffin. After arguing a comparison to incest marriage, Donohue openly admitted that he “wants the law to discriminate” against same-sex couples:

DONOHUE: Oh, it’s very simple. It’s absolutely very simple. I have a doctorate in sociology from NYU, and I know what the literature says. The literature is definitive. There is one gold standard, one gold standard for children. That is: there is no substitute for a marriage between a man and a woman. I want the law to discriminate against straight people who live together — I used to call it “shacking up,” but now it’s called cohabitation. I want the law to discriminate against all alternative lifestyles, against gays and unions. I want to promote and to put in a privileged position that institution of marriage between a man and a woman, which has been shown over and over to be the gold standard.

Watch it:

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Donohue might want to revisit sociology before he makes such grandiose claims. Not a single study has compared married opposite-sex couples to married same-sex couples and found a difference in their parenting ability. Any claim otherwise is a distortion of the research, not a “gold standard.”

With his brutally honest admission that he wants to discriminate, Donohue serves as a unique surrogate for the leadership of the Catholic Church. Though his organization “does not speak authoritatively for the Church,” he seems to say what the bishops are thinking. An open will to discriminate has little do with protecting Catholics from defamation — the actual mission of the Catholic League — just as same-sex couples marrying poses no threat to the religious liberty of practicing Catholics, who largely support marriage equality.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/10/481651/donohue-wants-to-discriminate/

Someone, please pull the plug out of that guy's ass. It's backing up to his brain.

[HockeyMom]

1. Donohue, I want the Catholic Church out of my life

Tell me how I can offifically, without any doubt, sever any and all ties with them. Tell me how I can negate my baptism, communion, etc. I do not want this church claming me as one of theirs.

[wandy]

7. You simply walk away...........

You make peace with you're self.
You make peace with what you believe is the creator.
For me, it was that simple.

[Lars39]

9. And for those of us who have never been Catholic and don't want to be?

They're pushing hard for the theocracy.

[wandy]

10. Frightening isn't it. It's not just catholics, their are many other types of religious wackos.

We can just hope that they will tear themselves to shreds over which is the 'proper' religion.
For what it's worth that is what I think will happen.
Never argue with the god someone has created in their own image.
Their own righteousness will force them to do so.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Spokesman for International Child Rapist Ring Decries People who Love One Another

There...just wanted to fix the headline. thanks.

[LadyHawkAZ]

3. Catholicism is a lifestyle choice

So is bigotry.

[quinnox]

4. at least he is honest

thats a change of pace, these folks usually try to cloak what they really think.

[SomethingFishy]

5. My question to him would be the same I always ask..

"Well, who the fuck are you that I should give a shit what you think and why is it you think that your opinion should be instituted as law?"

Same question the media should be asking every one of these assholes who keep saying "I THINK". No you don't, thats the problem.

[alphafemale]

6. "Someone, please pull the plug out of that guy's ass. It's backing up to his brain."

Ohhh....! Is that why his shirt collar looked about two inches too small?

[Skidmore]

8. How about someone tells him that they would like a law to discriminate against Catholics again.

[RevStPatrick]

11. OK Bill, fine...

It might be the case that the "institution of marriage between a man and a woman... has been shown over and over to be the gold standard." It might be true that that is what most people choose, or are predisposed to.

But you know something, Bill? Silver is pretty nice too. And so are diamonds and rubies. And platinum and emeralds. The world would be pretty boring if all we had to look at was gold.