Catholic Fire

Tim Shriver interview on Fox News about Tropic Thunder Why boycott this film? It contains damaging and hurtful hate speech that can cause harm, both emotionally and by giving insensitive individuals new ways to taunt children and adults with intellectual disabilities. For more information: Be sure to read Leticia's post on Catholic Exchange -- Not "Just a Word". Wheelie Catholic: Why everyone, especially Catholics, should boycott Tropic Thunder Causa Nostrae Laetitiae: Protest at Premiere of "Tropic Thunder" Please Boycott Tropic Thunder Video via Wheelie Catholic.

The Catholic Carnival is up at Kicking Over My Traces . Dom has a firey post entitled "Edwards excuses anti-Catholic trash-bloggers". Tony at Catholic Pillow Talk also presents some interesting news and comments on this issue as well in his post "Mandy... You're Fired!!!" Check out what Dawn Eden has to say about Amanda Marcotte and her activities in "Sects and the Witty." I always enjoy Jay's insights and comments on political happenings. This post was no exception - his comments on the Edwards biogotry scandal made me chuckle a little at first, then a lot. I wonder if these gals are related to Rosie O.? And, last but not least, check out the funny stuff at The Curt Jester with lots of other great links! Esther reports on the Scandal at 23 Catholic Colleges/Universities and also offers an online petition for readers to sign. It's V***** Monologue time again with lustful language, sexual encounters, and graphic descriptions of lesbian be...

Catholic League president Bill Donohue is demanding that presidential hopeful John Edwards fire two recently hired anti-Catholics who have joined his team: Amanda Marcotte as Blogmaster and Melissa McEwan as the Netroots Coordinator. Here’s why: “Writing on the Pandagon blogsite, December 26, 2006, Amanda Marcotte wrote that ‘the Catholic church is not about to let something like compassion for girls get in the way of using the state as an instrument to force women to bear more tithing Catholics.’ On October 9, 2006, she said that ‘the Pope’s gotta tell women who give birth to stillborns that their babies are cast into Satan’s maw.’ On the same day she wrote that ‘it’s going to be bad PR for the church, so you can sort of see why the Pope is dragging ass.’ And on June 14, 2006, she offered the following Q&A: ‘What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit,’ to which she replied, ‘You’d have to justify your misogyny with another an...