To be explained to Bill Donohue, ASAP

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Someone might want to inform him about something called "age of consent", which he apparently comprehends just as well as the concept of actual "consent" in the first place.

If you guessed that this was part of some bizarre media apologia for sex abuse scandals among Catholic priests, you win.

When men have sex with adolescent men, it’s called homosexuality. It is not pedophilia,” Donohue told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Friday. “Less than 5 percent of the priests involved in molestation are pedophiles. I will never stop telling the truth. And the pope never said we should either. I am against gay bashing.”

“You just heard what the pope said,” Cuomo noted. “Why wouldn’t you move past this parsing rhetoric and try to be about what your church is supposed to be about?”

“As far as I’m concerned, the Catholic Church didn’t handle this right,” Donohue explained. “I would have put these guys in in the slammer a long time ago. Instead, they think they can reform them. They sent them off to the psychiatrist.”

“But it is the discussion of homosexuality and the blame of them as somehow predatory that is what your pope is telling you not to say,” Cuomo pointed out. “Who says the molesters were gay?

Complete idiocy, right?

Oh, don't worry. There's more. With Donohue, there's always more.

The Catholic League president then moved on to attacking Jews for Hollywood movies that portray Catholicism in a bad light.

“Is it the Vietnamese who are making movies in Hollywood? Is it the Puerto Ricans who own Hollywood?” he asked. “Do you know that the Jewish Forward in its editorial said the exact same thing that I did?”

“I’m talking about secular Jews, who run the Hollywood studios, who make anti-Catholic movies!” Donohue exclaimed. “What is so absurd that?”

“The absurdity is that you are blaming it on a faith and a culture,” Cuomo observed.

I can think of a couple of other absurd things I've read recently, actually.