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[Normal Joe]

 Thursday October 11, 2007
DAVID E. KELLEY—TINSELTOWN’S ACE BIGOT

October 10, 2007


Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on last night’s episode of the ABC show, “Boston Legal”:

“The show featured a 15 year-old girl who is enrolled in an abstinence-only sex education program, contracts HIV and then sues her school, blaming it for her condition. At the trial, the school’s principal, the girl’s attorneys and the judge all tout the virtues of condoms, fingering Christian activists—who else?—for her irresponsibility.

“This is surreal. A half-century ago, sex education, condoms and sexually transmitted diseases were all uncommon. Since that time, students have learned the art of putting condoms on cucumbers, and have been introduced to sexual techniques that are as deviant as they are injurious. The results of which are illegitimacy and AIDS. But this is obviously over the head of ‘Boston Legal’ producer David E. Kelley, Tinseltown’s ace bigot.

“Kelley has long hated Catholicism. That is why he finished his number last night ridiculing a nun in habit (it’s always nuns in habit whom the Hollywood gang likes to slam). The nun is portrayed translating the words of a Mexican immigrant charged with cockfighting. Referring to the rooster as a ‘champion cock,’ she comments how ‘it would bring me such joy to hold him.’ Then, to the astonishment of the court, the sister says, ‘To hold that beautiful cock in my own two hands.’

“Were it not for people like Kelley, millions of Americans would not hold Hollywood in contempt. It is the Kelleys of this world who purposely craft a libertine milieu—one which inexorably leads to spiritual, psychological and physical death—only to perversely blame Catholics for the fruits of their labor. Sadly, they will go to their deathbeds never having figured it out. That’s why they need to read the Catholic Catechism before it’s too late.”

 
Maybe this is why the world is so screwed up?

[marilyn.monroe]

sex education needs to be taught by the parent(s). i don't have a problem with it being covered in school. i believe the core teaching should be abstinence. birth control and sexually transmitted diseases should also examined. Condoms don't prevent stds or pregnancy, and "the pill" doesn't prevent stds, and isn't always effective at preventing pregnancy.

I watch "Boston Legal" once in awhile. I found it humorous, myself.
Don't really know or care about David E. Kelley.

Not really nice to make fun of nuns in such a crude way, is it? Making fun of some dear nuns I know would be fightin' words...
Anyway, the nun joke is only funny to those who have their minds in the gutter.

[belladonna]

I did not see Boston Legal last night.  Television has sure changed since Ricky and Lucy's twin beds. 

[jenetty]

What happened to parents being responsible for their children?  And what happened to children growing up learning to take responsibility for their own actions?   

[lordfly]

Everything should be taught at home as well as in school.

Telling kids to 100% ignore their biological sex drives until they get married 10-15 years from then won't work.

[Dandy_Richardvilles]

Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on last night’s episode of the ABC show, “Boston Legal”:

I loved the number South Park did on Bill Donohue...

[Normal Joe]

If all the leaves on all the trees could talk....they never could even begin to say..... *

[crazeemom]

When I was younger the only talk or information we received in school was "the Movie" about what happens during puberty.  Girls choraled into one room, boys in the other.  That was it.  I learned everything else from my parents.  The only problem was that I was embarrassed to talk to my parents.  I did because I could not talk to anyone else.  I am very thankful my parents were very honest and open.  I intend to do that for my sons.  They will be absent during "sex education"  I don't feel it appropriate that a public school educate my sons on a something so important.  Morality, Values, communication, age issues about sex are something I want to talk about with my children.

[jenetty]

Same here, Crazeemom.  I have been very blessed with a very open relationship with my mom.  My kids aren't quite old enough to worry about it yet but when they are, I hope they'll be as open with me.