BISHOPS' PRESIDENT BLASTS 'SOUTH PARK' EPISODE LAMPOONING MARY (Disgusting!)

Catholic News Service ^ | 12/19/2005 | Staff

[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.

[andyk]

You talkin' to me?

[silver charm]

Got netflix for Christmas and Team America is first on my list!

[churchillbuff]

People who look for every anti-Bush and anti-military article they can find and then post them on the internet, thus demoralizing our troops and president. """

So Howlin - who claims to be against censorship when it comes to South Park - is really FOR censorship. It's OK to blaspheme the Virgin Mary - in fact, only "uptight" people would object - but no criticism of our elected president, in a democracy, can be allowed. On that point, Howlin is more "uptight" than anyone on FR. I guess Howlin is sensitive about criticism after all -- unless, that is, if it's degrading lampoon of Christianity.

[tallhappy]

I did post to you, yes.

[pogo101]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[singfreedom]

CONVICTED OF WHAT? for heaven's sake?!!! Watching a television show that you don't like?

This thread falls under the category: I can't BELIEVE we're having this discussion. This is still America. I have the right to watch a TV show that you don't like. That does NOT make me less Christian, less conservative, less Republican, less American, or any other thing....... It just means that, both of us being Americans, we should agree to disagree, nothing more.

[andyk]

Yeah, but it didn't make any sense.

[tallhappy]

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition except the Knights who formerly said Nee.

[HairOfTheDog]

There's much more to life then two men farting on each other...

But Jesus wouldn't likely fart. It's not really his style.

[A.Hun]

You succeeded in fostering a very ugly thread out of your ignorance of the show.!

Congratulations!

[tallhappy]

Of course it makes sense.

For people arguing no one should be offended at South Park to be offended by simply being called imbecile is the height of irony.

[bonfire]

imbecile ....that's just sooooo 3 Stooges!

[Texas Eagle]

I have the right to watch a TV show that you don't like. That does NOT make me less Christian, less conservative, less Republican, less American, or any other thing....... It just means that, both of us being Americans, we should agree to disagree, nothing more.

Nobody is saying you don't have the right to watch certain TV shows or that watching certain shows makes you less American. This whole thing started because one right-minded person exercised his right to say that only imbeciles watch South Park and then all hell broke loose.

South Parkers sure are a sensitive lot. They speak out of one side of their mouths how wonderful it is that South Park is so irrerevent, but out of the other side of their mouths they piss and moan that someone would speak so irreverently of South Park.

Weird.

[Howlin]

I don't think you should be censored at all.

I think everybody who sees any of your threads knows you're anti-American and anti-military.

[Texas Eagle]

But Jesus wouldn't likely fart. It's not really his style.

But it is South Park's.

Game. Set. Match.

[Texas Eagle]

For people arguing no one should be offended at South Park to be offended by simply being called imbecile is the height of irony

Amen, bro.

[HairOfTheDog]

Did you click the link?

Well, I for one am not farting anymore *poof*.

[Howlin]

This whole thing started because one right-minded person...

If you do say so yourself? WAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

[It's me]

News-Flash - South Park shows EVERYTHING in "a tasteless and ugly fashion."

Oh, gee, then in that case it's okay.
/sarcasm

What a wierd response you have.

[Texas Eagle]

Heh, heh. I made my own self chuckle with that one.