Catholic League furious over Catholic/Jewish sketch in ‘Family Guy’

Catholic League furious over Catholic/Jewish sketch in ‘Family Guy’ November 11, 2020

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MEMBERS of the Walt Disney board have been ordered to ‘call off the dogs’ by the Catholic League’s head honcho Bill Donohue, above, following a broadcast of Family Guy on November 8.

Donohue is furious that:

This episode featured a scene where two Catholic sacraments, Baptism and Holy Communion, were mocked. It also maligned priests and disparaged rabbis. The offensive scene involved a Christening.

In a letter to the Walt Disney Company and the members of its board of directors, Donohue posed four questions:

• Why are so many in Hollywood bent on disparaging our Judeo-Christian heritage?

• Why do they single out Catholics?

• Why can’t they treat us the way they treat Muslims and gays?

• Why is Fox muddying the name of Walt Disney?

The letter was addressed to “Mr. Robert Iger, the Executive Chairman of the Walt Disney Company.”

For chrissake, keep up, Billy-boy! Secular Jew Iger stepped down from his role of Disney CEO in February, 2020.

Donohue added:

I asked him [Iger]  to ‘call off the dogs,’ pledging that ‘If I have to write again, the content of my communication will be strikingly dissimilar.’

Donohue helpfully details the offensive segment of the episode.

Meg (The Daughter): “Where’s the priest?”

Lois (The Mother): “Oh, the Church ran out of priests months ago because of all the diddling. Now they just have a rabbi fill in.”

The scene then cuts to a rabbi at a baptismal font where he makes this comment while doing the baptism.

Rabbi: “Welcome to the Christening. Now, before the child goes in the water, has it been at least 20 minutes since she ate?”

Joe (Father of Girl being baptised): “Yes, rabbi.”

Rabbi: “Let’s dunk this kid like a doughnut. I hereby Christen this child in the name of Jesus Christ, who was killed by we-don’t-know-who, it’s not important. The last thing we want to do is point fingers.”

After the Baptism, the rabbi makes a joke about the Eucharist.

Rabbi: “Congratulations, sweetie, you’re a Christian. From now on, every Sunday you get to eat a hard cookie and pretend it’s a guy.”

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This was not the first time a baptism was featured in the show. Last December an episode showed Peter getting getting his son baptised at the insistence of his racist, bigoted Catholic father, who, at one point,  refers to Peter’s wife as a “Protestant whore.”

Interestingly Donohue, who has claimed for years that paedophilia doesn’t exist in the Catholic Church – “it would be more accurate to refer to the victims as minors, not children, since most of them were adolescents (eg, victims of homosexuality, not pedophilia” – has nothing to say about yesterday’s damning reports out of the UK and the Vatican about clerical abuse.

Unapologetic anti-Semitism.

Six years ago, the creator of Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, was accused in a Haaretz article “unapologetic anti-Semitism.”

Mark I Pinsky wrote:

Anti-Semitism is a serious charge, made too quickly and too often. But as someone who has followed MacFarlane’s career, I think it is well past time to call him out. His star is clearly on the rise in Hollywood — he has hosted a major awards show, been writing and directing movies and, most recently, produced the Fox series “Cosmos.”

And thus far he has been unimpeded by his consistent record of anti-Semitism … In “Family Guy” … there is consistent meanness that reinforces classic, anti-Semitic stereotypes: greedy, cheap, cowardly, whiny, averse to physical labor, and in control of Hollywood.

Seth MacFarlane, it seems, is simply a wittier version of Mel Gibson.

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