York, Jun 20, 2007 (CNA) - Robin Williams has decided that he won't pay
any consequences for ridiculing the Church in public, says The Catholic
League. On Monday night's Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Williams equated
all priests with pedophiles and mocked confession.
Leno
invited the actor on to his show to plug his upcoming movie "License to
Wed," in which he plays a Protestant minister who forces a couple to go
through marriage preparation courses. However, the experience of
portraying a minister didn't seem to engender any respect for the
clergy in him.
Williams
pretended to play a game with Jay Leno where a pedophile is hidden
under a cup. "Here we go. Find the priest, find the pedophile. Find the
priest, find the pedophile. Here you go right now. Move 'em around,
move 'em around. Oh, you found the pedophile."
Williams
then put his hand over his groin, saying, "You have to realize that if
you are a Catholic priest, you have retired this. That's it—no
more sex." Then he took a shot at confession: "But they are going to
put you in a small dark box and people are going to tell you the
nastiest sexual stuff they have done."
Bill
Donahue was angered by the fact that, "Isaiah Washington lashes out at
one gay person in private, and he is banished from 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Robin Williams lashes out against all priests in public, and he suffers
no consequence.”
Pointing
out that the actor has calculated the risks of targeting the Church,
Donahue quoted an interview with MoviesOnline in which Williams
recently said, “‘you can’t poke fun at certain
religions,’ but ‘we just made major fun of the Catholic
Church but hey, they don’t blow you up.’” Donahue
said this makes Williams not just “a bigot and a liar” but
also “a coward.”
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