Dan Savage Was Last Straw — Catholic Group Demands Bill Maher’s HBO Show Gets Canceled

Bill Maher is under fire after hosting LGBT activist, author, and comedian Dan Savage Friday night on his HBO show, “Real Time.” The Catholic League is a small but extremely wealthy and far-reaching self-appointed organization devoted to waging war on anyone who voices opposition to the Pope, the Vatican, or Catholicism itself — even if the opposition is critical of Roman Catholic pedophile priests.

On Monday, from his Park Avenue office in mid-town Manhattan, Catholic League president Bill Donohue issued a demand to HBO’s parent company, cable giant Time-Warner: “Cancel Bill Maher.”

“The board of directors at Time Warner cannot distance themselves from Bill Maher any longer,” Donohue bloviated. “On Friday night, Maher teed up Dan Savage, another anti-Catholic bigot. What happened was particularly vicious.”

“Maher commented on gay couples who adopt children, alleging that a Hawaiian bishop said these kids had a greater chance of committing suicide,” Donohue whined — not even addressing whether or not it was true. (Why is that, do you think?)

Here is how Savage responded: “That’s total bulls***. He’s confusing children of gay parents with children who are raped by Catholic priests. Sorry, I am just done being lectured about children and their safety by Catholic-f***ing bishops, priests, cardinals.” Shortly thereafter, Savage again remarked about “kiddie-f***ing Catholic priests.”

Donohue went on to note that the Catholic League (which is pretty much just Donohue and a tiny staff) is “sending to every member of Time Warner’s board of directors a copy of 54 anti-Catholic statements made by Bill Maher on TV [click here to read the report].”

You should actually read the list. Aside from being humorous, that the jokes can actually be made by Maher and Donohue is unable to refute those that aren’t just jokes, but real accusations, it’s extremely embarrassing for Donohue to advertise it at all.

Dan Savage’s response to Bill Maher’s comment about gay parents raising children was pretty epic, as we reported on it first thing Saturday morning:

After jokingly asking what gay sex is like, Maher brought up the marriage battle in Hawaii. He asked about Hawaii‘s Catholic Bishop Larry Silva’s false claim that children who grow up in gay homes “have a greater chance of committing suicide.”
“That’s total bullshit,” Savage responded. Bishop Silva is “confusing children who were raised by gay parents with children who were raped by Catholic priests.” He went on to complain about “being lectured about children and their safety by Catholic f*cking bishops, priests, cardinals.”

Of course, Time Warner will get inundated with emails from dutiful Catholics. And the response from the rest of America — including many lay Catholics who disagree with the Catholic Church’s abominable response to their pedophile priests problem and position on same-sex marriage and adoption — will merely be free advertising for HBO, Time Warner, and Bill Maher.