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EMMY WINNER KATHY GRIFFIN - horrid affront to Jesus
Catholic League ^ | September 10, 2007

Posted on 09/11/2007 7:26:03 AM PDT by NYer

EMMY WINNER KATHY GRIFFIN: “SUCK IT, JESUS, THIS AWARD IS MY GOD NOW” - Catholic League

September 10, 2007

On September 8, at the 59th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards, comedian Kathy Griffin won Outstanding Reality Program for her Bravo show, “My Life on the D-List.” In her acceptance speech, Griffin said, “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now.” Fox will televise the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 16 from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:

“Mel Gibson. Michael Richards. Isaiah Washington. Imus. Jerry Lewis. Every time a celebrity offends a segment of the population, he pays a price, in one way or another. The question now is whether Kathy Griffin will pay a similar price for her outburst. And as we have learned, her verbal assault was calculated.

“In an interview with Houston’s gay magazine, OutSmart, Griffin described herself as a ‘complete militant atheist.’ Unfortunately, her kind of vulgar in-your-face brand of hate speech found a receptive audience on Saturday: The Hollywood Reporter says her foul remark ‘drew laughs.’

“It is incumbent upon Dick Askin, chairman and chief executive officer of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, to denounce Griffin’s obscene and blasphemous comment; a statement should also be read on Sunday. After all, it is his organization that is responsible for the Creative Arts Emmy event. Moreover, given the way the Hollywood crowd received Griffin’s remark, it falls to Askin to distance the Academy from this outrageous incident. We are contacting Griffin’s agent as well.

“It is sure bet that if Griffin had said, ‘Suck it, Muhammad,’ there would have been a very different reaction from the crowd and from the media who covered this event. To say nothing of the Muslim reaction.”

Contact Askin at dick.askin@emmyleader.org


TOPICS: Activism; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: emmy; fugly; griffin; jesus; moralabsolutes
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1 posted on 09/11/2007 7:26:06 AM PDT by NYer
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To: Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...

Sickening!


2 posted on 09/11/2007 7:26:53 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer
If Christians acted like mooslims, she'd be walking around without a head on her shoulders.


3 posted on 09/11/2007 7:30:19 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: NYer
>“Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now”

It isn't really
insulting Jesus at all!
She admits He's God,

she's just announcing
that she worships D-list fame
more than she does God.

4 posted on 09/11/2007 7:30:20 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: NYer

I’ll bet he mother is soooo proud.


5 posted on 09/11/2007 7:32:40 AM PDT by ladtx ( "I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top." - - Will Rogers)
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To: NYer

She evidently won her Emmy by using her father’s death as part of her shtick. Seeing her other “creative” bits of humor such as describing the military as gun happy dim witted Southerners, it isn’t any surprise that chooses something like this to say.

She’s a rebellious teen vying for attention. Just a shame that she’s in her forties and hasn’t grown past that.


6 posted on 09/11/2007 7:33:32 AM PDT by kenth
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To: NYer

The price Kathy Griffin is paying for her blasphemy is being Kathy Griffin - a fate I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.


7 posted on 09/11/2007 7:35:36 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: NYer
Why would an "atheist" say "suck it Jesus"? Insulting a being in whom one does not believe is a nonsense, no? This tells us that this remark was intended not for Jesus, but for those who believe in him; Christians. Ergo it was calculated to give offense.

Welcome to the new America.

To publicly blaspheme Jesus is a sign of enlightenment and liberation. To transgress the rules of political correctness is a career ender.

Osama bin Laden soon come.

8 posted on 09/11/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: TexasCajun

as it is there’s not much in her head and it’s a pretty ugly one...


9 posted on 09/11/2007 7:53:57 AM PDT by kawaii (Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
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To: NYer

As I said on an earlier thread, perhaps she blames Jesus for the horrible way her plastic surgery turned out.


10 posted on 09/11/2007 7:55:31 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
She was just as butt ugly before the plastic surgery, so perhaps she’s blaming Jesus for the horrible way she turned out period.
11 posted on 09/11/2007 7:59:21 AM PDT by cammie
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There are not words to describe how loathsome a Godless liberal this woman is. Despicable


12 posted on 09/11/2007 7:59:35 AM PDT by stm (Fred Thompson in 08!)
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To: NYer

She’s a pig. End of story.


13 posted on 09/11/2007 7:59:49 AM PDT by oneofmany (The Democrat party is the 5th column..)
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To: NYer

Another militant ex-Catholic. Pray pray pray for her! As repugnant and disgusting as her sentiments are, we need to pray more for her soul.


14 posted on 09/11/2007 8:04:51 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
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15 posted on 09/11/2007 8:07:45 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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Whatever we worship — whatever we put before God becomes our idol.

For Kathy Griffin, she could have just been thankful for her Emmy for her role in “My Life on the D-List.” Now she’s censored for her in-your-face put-down of the role of Jesus Christ in her life.

Or should I say, lack of Christ in her life.

She picked up her Emmy and said, “This is my god now.”

Hey, Kathy, want to see your life on the F-list — “f” for flunky, for failure, for flopping in the ratings.

Now your comments are going to be edited down to something that won’t be so offensive to all of us Christians who will not be watching your show anymore.

Maybe then, you’ll be “o” for off the air.


16 posted on 09/11/2007 8:08:45 AM PDT by janereinheimer ((I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.))
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To: NYer
She thinks she's on the 'D' list.

But she's on my 'F' list.

17 posted on 09/11/2007 8:13:27 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: chopperman

She’s on my “S” list.


18 posted on 09/11/2007 8:28:49 AM PDT by ikka
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To: theFIRMbss
It isn't really insulting Jesus at all! She admits He's God, she's just announcing that she worships D-list fame more than she does God.

I agree, to that extent. I thought I read she calls herself an atheist, so why does she care about Jesus at all, going so far as to reference Him in a negative way in her thank you speech? Like so many atheists, she is the kind who is more anti-religion, than atheist. Of all the things she could have said during her short speech, a shot at Jesus was the best she could do? Very telling. Even if she comes out and says it was 'just' a joke...

19 posted on 09/11/2007 8:31:32 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Finally catching up with posting...)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

When you still look like a drag queen after extensive plastic surgery, you were fugly to begin with....


20 posted on 09/11/2007 8:32:58 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
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