Catholic Group Wants Beer Boycott

[DonViejo]

Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams all made news by pulling their sponsorship of St. Patrick's Day parades in New York and Boston due to the organizers banning gay and lesbian groups. In response, Catholic League President Bill Donohue is calling on all Catholics to boycott the three companies. Donohue said in a press release that the event is a Catholic event, and "it is this Catholic element that angers those who are engaged in a bullying campaign against the St. Patrick’s Day parades. The bullies also have nothing but contempt for the constitutional rights of Irish Catholics." Oh, and while he will now no longer drink Guinness or Sam Adams, he declared, "Heineken was always slop, so there is no sacrifice there."

Read it at Catholic League
March 19, 2014 7:20 AM

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/03/19/catholic-group-calls-for-beer-boycott.html

[Renew Deal]

1. If Donahue wants to see slop he should look in the mirror.

[Mz Pip]

2. Of course it's Donohue

Donohue always has his panties in wad about something. It's either the Gay or contraception. He's in a permanent state of pissed offedness.

Must suck to be him.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. He makes a huge salary and has about a quarter of a million supporters so probably not.

He never faces any form of censure from his Church, I assume he gets lots of praise from and access to Dolan and Francis and the rest of them. He gets lots of media attention, lavish offices from which he serves as the second head of that organization which has a large board of directors full of wealthy, famous people.
Some will tell you he's one guy with a fax machine, but they are speaking falsely because the truth shames them.

[theHandpuppet]

5. Yep.

I don't have the latest stats; these are from 2005:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/catholic-league

[longship]

4. What told me this was Bill Donahue's FAX machine before clicking through?

And why does anybody take this guy seriously?

[theHandpuppet]

6. Plenty of people, apparently.

The Catholic League has about 350,000 members.

Have a read at some of the lovely comments on their Facebook page, regarding the parade:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Catholic-League/140452789289

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Sometimes it just writes itself.....

nt

[LibertyLover]

7. I see that Donohue thinks he's a Constitutional scholar

but unfortunately he isn't. I love how the RWNJs always invoke the 1st Amendment, and get it wrong. No, Mr. Donohue, the 1st Amendment rights of the parade organizers were not infringed on. They made their rules about who could or couldn't march in their parades and those rules were observed. Certain companies chose not to participate in the parades because of those rules. The government did not step in and stop the parades, nor did it tell the organizers they HAD to change their rules nor were any of the organizers arrested and jailed because of the rules they formulated. So, no 1st Amendment issues to see here. Just keep walking Mr. Donohue.