Oh please look at the tragic press release for Bill Donohue’s new-ish book, Secular Sabotage. Not one person—not a single graphic design intern, or PR guy, or someone at the publisher’s office—had any objection to including this blurb. Chilling. (Thank you to Wonkette Informant “Dan T.”) [Catholic League]

Would anyone mind if the Washington Post just declared Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League, the winner of the amateur pundit talent show immediately? Donohue was a “guest voice” yesterday on Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn’s religion thing, in which he heroically thought of this one alliteration: “America’s Secular Saboteurs.” He’s like, “The culture war is up for grabs. The good news is that religious conservatives continue to breed like rabbits, while secular saboteurs have shut down: they’re too busy walking their dogs, going to bathhouses and aborting their kids. Time, it seems, is on the side of the angels.” But like actually. MORE »

The Bush administration is clearly suffering from the little-known “Greeting Card Curse.” First, the bubbly hyperbole of Harriet Miers’s chummy thank you notes helped torpedo her SCOTUS nomination. Now, the religious right is thumping Bibles over the Bushes instances that other religious celebrations occur during the month of December by sending out “holiday” cards rather than “Christmas” cards, a kind of fake controversy that always makes us want to remind people that Jesus was born in April, anyway. The Post is all over the story, though we suspect it might be a bit trumped up. After all, who’s upset here? Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights? He starts letter-writing campaigns over the use of “gesundheit.” Indeed, when Donohue discovered the White House’s offense, his panties hadn’t even unbundled from their previous knot: “Donohue had just announced a boycott of the Lands’ End catalogue when he received his White House holiday card.” Clearly, the man needs a hobby — or just a new cause. May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches’ Rev. Bob Edgar: “I think it’s more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards.” Because Jesus doesn’t need body armor. MORE »