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BISHOPS' PRESIDENT BLASTS 'SOUTH PARK' EPISODE LAMPOONING MARY (Disgusting!)
Catholic News Service ^
| 12/19/2005
| Staff
Posted on 12/28/2005 1:12:12 PM PST by FerdieMurphy
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. bishops blasted a recent episode of the cable television comedy "South Park" that he said showed Mary in "a tasteless and ugly fashion."
In a Dec. 14 letter to Tom Freston, co-president and chief operating officer of Viacom International, parent company of Comedy Central, the cable channel that shows "South Park," Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., said the channel showed "extreme insensitivity" in choosing to show the episode.
The episode, which first was shown Dec. 7 and had repeat showings in the week following, was titled "Bloody Mary." During the episode, a "South Park" character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a bodily orifice of a Virgin Mary statue.
When Pope Benedict XVI investigates in the show, he declares that she was merely menstruating. The episode's premiere date came the day before the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day of obligation for Catholics.
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To: yellowdoghunter
I am setting an example. I can only hope that when my children grow up to be ADULTS, they will also be South Park fans. In that, I hope they follow in my footsteps.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:00:44 PM PST
by
Quick1
To: MikeinIraq
If you consider people who stand for morality and decency uptight...
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:00:52 PM PST
by
balch3
To: MikeinIraq
ROFLMAO.....I laughed so hard at that, my husband came up to the FROG to see what I was laughing for!
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:00:53 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
To: pogo101
"I think the show's an offensive, raunchy but hilarious skewering of many cultural sacred cows..."" Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!" (Isiah 5:20)
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:01:01 PM PST
by
TheCrusader
("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
To: yellowdoghunter
I think SouthPark is just another example of the debasing of our culture."""
Obviously. But it's one-sided debasement. Christianity is blasphemed, but not other religions.
To: MikeinIraq
I mean, some of these people are so uptight you wouldn't get a greased BB up their asses with a jackhammer....Okay... Ouch.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:01:43 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: yellowdoghunter
But you said you don't do things you don't want your children to know about, so I'm assuming you tell them every time you have sex, right?
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:01:57 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
To: churchillbuff
"Hollywood blasphemes Christianity but not Judaism -- but maybe this isn't the case with South Park, maybe that show is an equal-opportunity blasphemer. Anyone know?"
The show makes fun of Jews. One of the boys, Kyle, is a Jew. His dad wears a yamakle. Yes the show makes fun of Jews. As when Cartman tells Kyle, "Shut up you goddam Jew!"
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:01:58 PM PST
by
Hound of the Baskervilles
(Liberals are unfit for citizenship in a country that values freedom and courage.)
To: Howlin
The FR PRIG Patrol is out in full force today, friend! " Suck my balls You're gay Your mother was on the cover of crack whore magazine"
The preceding quotes are brought to you by one of your fellowSouth Park afficianados.
You must be proud.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:02:03 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: MikeinIraq
I mean, some of these people are so uptight you wouldn't get a greased BB up their asses with a jackhammer.... ROFL! I never heard that before!
To: Texas Eagle
That was a quote from the show, right?
FGS, lighten up!
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:02:39 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
To: Texas Eagle
convicted by their own words.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:02:51 PM PST
by
balch3
To: MeanWestTexan
Scripture makes no mention of the Blessed Virgin Mary giving birth to any child other than Jesus.
To: Hound of the Baskervilles
Or how about the dam burst episode when it turned out Kyle did have a bag of Jew gold. That was pretty solid. And of course the whole idea of being a Jew living in a town where Jesus Himself has a cable access TV show is a little rough.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:03:09 PM PST
by
discostu
(a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
To: churchillbuff
Anybody who knows me knows I am a very conservative Calvinist Christian.
Pro-life and the whole nine yards.
But, I am not going to go nuts over a cartoon.
I sometimes leave the room for the parts I don't like such as extra-bad Jesus mockings. But, I am not going to stop watching a show that is otherwise hilarious just because sometimes it has something I don't like.
South Park attacks all sacred cows, and I am okay with that.
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12/28/2005 2:03:16 PM PST
by
rwfromkansas
(http://www.xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: MikeinIraq
I saw the humor in that, but it wasn't fall off the seat hilarious.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:03:34 PM PST
by
Sensei Ern
(Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
To: MikeinIraq
Kyle, the Jewish character, is routinely blasted by Cartman.
Let's not forget the "Jew's can't play basketball" episode!
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:03:49 PM PST
by
andyk
(Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
To: TheCrusader
Yawn. Your quotation of scripture requires, for one to agree with it, that I begin with the assumption that South Park is bad. I don't. You do, and that's your right, but take your preaching elsewhere, hypocrite.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:03:58 PM PST
by
pogo101
To: Howlin
However you wish to take my comment is fine with me. Others know what I meant.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:04:10 PM PST
by
yellowdoghunter
(Thank you President Bush for Judge Alito!)
To: churchillbuff
Christianity is blasphemed, but not other religions.
Completely and utterly WRONG. Just stop saying this myth.
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posted on
12/28/2005 2:04:30 PM PST
by
Quick1
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