Bill Maher Needs A ‘Serious Talk’ About His ‘Bigotry,’ Says Catholic League

Someone needs to have a “serious talk” with comedian Bill Maher about his “bigotry,” according to the Catholic League.

A letter from the League says that Catholics have had enough of Maher’s “vile and obscene” comments about the church, and demand that his bosses at Time Warner have a “serious talk” with him about his history of “anti-Catholicism.”

The letter is signed by Catholic League president Bill Donohue, and argues:

“There is no other entertainer in the nation who has repeatedly spoken about the Catholic Church, especially its priests, in more vile and obscene terms than Bill Maher.”

The letter also argues that if Maher’s remarks were aimed at any other demographic group, he would be condemned for them. Because of that, they wonder why Time Warner has elected to sit back as a “spectator.”

The continue that Maher’s “bigotry is not merely visceral, it is relentless,” continuing that the “time has come for someone in a position of responsibility to sit down and have a serious talk with this man.”

Though Maher definitely doesn’t hold anything resembling a candle for the Catholic Church, he has been criticized in the past for his attacks on a variety of groups, mostly religious-based or politically conservative in nature. In early 2012, he wrote an op-ed defending himself for his often vitriolic attacks on such groups, arguing that people who are offended need to simply “get over it.”

“When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like?” Maher wrote. “In the last year, we’ve been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity of Nike shoes, the Fighting Sioux, Hank Williams Jr., Cee Lo Green, Ashton Kutcher, Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Kirk Cameron, Gilbert Gottfried, the Super Bowl halftime show and the ESPN guys who used the wrong cliché for Jeremy Lin after everyone else used all the others. Who can keep up?”

You can read a list of examples of Maher’s “anti-Catholicism” here, or watch a clip from a recent episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, during which he attacks Catholics, below.

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