“SOUTH PARK” CHALLENGED TO TACKLE TOUGH ISSUES

NEW YORK, July 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) – William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has charged the makers of the politically incorrect animated comedy South Park with “cowardice” for picking easy targets. Donohue calls it a “myth” that Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the show’s makers, “have the guts to take on controversial subjects.”  A recent episode, for example, shows a bishop standing in front of the pope,  complaining, “We’ll never be able to have sex with boys again.” But Donohue called this a wimpy angle of attack. “The scandal in the Church is not about priests having sex with prepubescent boys,” Donohue says. “It is about priests having sex with postpubescent young men. The former is called pedophilia and the latter is called homosexuality. So if Stone and Parker really had guts, they would do a show on gay priests. But, of course, like so many other intellectually dishonest elites in our society, they will go to any length to protect homosexuals.”  To view the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights home page, where the “South Park” news release will eventually be posted, see:  https://www.catholicleague.org