"South Park" Episode on Priests
Shows Cowardice

Comedy Central has been promoting tomorrow night’s episode of “South Park” 
for over a week.  It boasts that this is one “the Catholic Church doesn’t 
want you to see.”  The show will target the sex abuse scandal in the 
Church.  A promo for the show has a bishop, standing in front of the pope, 
complaining, “we’ll never be able to have sex with boys again.” 

Catholic League president William Donohue commented as follows: 

  “One the biggest myths in Hollywood is the notion that ‘South Park’ 
  creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have the guts to take on  controversial 
  subjects.  Already, some pundits are congratulating Stone and Parker for 
  doing an episode on the scandal in the Catholic Church.  But the way Stone 
  and Parker have decided to approach the subject shows cowardice, not 
  courage.  

  “The promo is dishonest.  The scandal in the Church is not about priests 
  having sex with prepubescent boys.  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.  

  “It is worth noting that in a recent survey conducted by the Washington 
  Post—extending back four decades and covering 60,000 priests—it was 
  disclosed that less than 1.5 percent of the priests were involved in 
  sexual misconduct with minors.  It is also worth noting that the 2 percent 
  of our society which is homosexual accounts for over half the AIDS cases 
  in this country.  Now if the statistic on priests merits an episode on 
  ‘South Park,’ it is fair to ask why the figures on gays and AIDS don’t 
  merit a whole season of fun?  But like I said, Stone and Parker are 
  cowards, and that explains why they’ll never air a show on thehomosexual 
  contribution to AIDS.”