Catholic Fire

Asked by "Today" show host Meredith Vieira about his recent bigoted jokes concerning Catholic priests , Robin Williams expressed no remorse for labeling all Catholic priests as pedophiles. (He has acknowledged that he wouldn't treat other religions the same way for fear of being blown up.) Williams defended his unfair stereotyping of priests saying, "It's my job as a comic sometimes to keep going...it's not like it [the sex abuse scandal] didn't exist." He added, "They [the Catholic League] should have been up in arms basically after the Children's Crusade." Source Related Post: Robin Williams Has A Sick Sense of Humor

I used to like Robin Williams, when he played Mork on Mindy and Mork (the TV sci-fi sitcom from 1978 - 1982) and I have enjoyed his performances in such films as Good Morning Viet Nam, Dead Poet's Society, and Awakenings, but over the years, his humor has gotten really raunchy. Raised as an Episopalian, Williams has taken a turn for the worse as illustrated by his appearance on the Jay Leno Show the other night. Williams went off on Catholic priests, painting them all as pedophiles. Williams also put his hand over his groin, saying, “You have to realize that if you are a Catholic priest, you have retired this. That’s it—no more sex.” Then he took a shot at confession: “But they are going to put you in a small dark box and people are going to tell you the nastiest sexual stuff they have done.” Here is Catholic League President Bill Donanue's response to this issue: “Isaiah Washington lashes out at one gay person in private, and he is banished from ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ Robin Willia...