...wow, Will, who'da thought you could be wrong about everything -- including my gender?!?

As for your list, you have one movie that deals with Orthodox Jewish life, and one TV show that deals with Mormonism.

Then you mention Curb your Enthusiasm, which has also gone after Catholics and just about every other religion, and is a perfect example of an equal-opportunity, genuine satire. Ditto for The Life of Brian, and South Park. They go after everybody, to their credit.

The challenge was to come up with 10 MOVIES about a specific Protestant sect and and 10 about Orthodox Judaism. (It's quite easy to come up with 10 about Catholicism, along with TV shows, plays, songs, articles, celebrity rants, etc.) I thought it was understood, but apparently not by you, that these should be movies where these groups were the sole recipients of attacks--not just part of scattershot religious satire.

You came up with one TV show specifically about Mormons, and one movie about Orthodoxy Judaism, which didn't portray anybody as a raving wacko or criminal, although yes, it was certainly an unflattering portrayal generally. Your math is as bad as your "satire." You also seem to lump all Protestants together in a single blur. Apparently your ignorance extends beyond Catholicism.

Isn't that pretty much the de facto definition of someone who is not a racist?

And don't most country clubs reflect the demographics of their neighborhood?

...just say he didn't remember? He's not being charged with "forgetting." He's being charged with lying.

Doesn't UCLA have anybody who could help out with that? Like someone from the Department of Paid Witnesses?

Okay, since we're hiding anti-Catholic bigotry behind thinly veiled sophistry now, I challenge you to name one other religion that has been subject to so much, ahem, "criticism" and "satire" in movies, songs, plays, celebrity rants, etc. as the Catholic Church has.

Is the Catholic Church the only church that "engages in some rather antiquated notions about sex, gay people and women"? Could not the same be said of many branches of Protestantism and Orthodox Judaism? Name ten movies about Protestant ministers or Orthodox rabbis that present them in the same vicious light that movies about nuns and priests do.

I disagree with the Catholic Church on a whole host of issues. But it is pretty obvious that the Catholic Church is far more frequently the victim of "satire" in Hollywood than any other religion. That's a fact. You can dress it up however you like, but it doesn't make it any less true.

Also, these works do not not qualify as "criticism." They do not take issue with specific Catholic stances. They portray nuns, priests and devout Catholics as out-and-out wackos--frigid, hypocritical, alcoholic, you name it. And the wackos are the benign ones!!

If the playing field is not at least somewhat balanced--if all faiths do not come in for a similar amount of "satire" (and no, I don't mean identical, but at least somewhat similar)--then yes, it smacks of bigotry. And Catholicism is far and away Hollywood's favorite religious target.

The Magdelene Sisters took dramatic liberties with realities, grim as those realities were. It also ignored the documented efforts of the nuns who tried to change the situation and free the girls. But even if you take every dramatization you see as the gospel truth, as apparently you do in this case, that is one movie out of all the anti-Catholic movies, songs, shows, celebrity rants out there.

I must have been swilling the communion wine again, because I can't ever recall saying that "all Catholics are good and just" or that true stories should not be shared.

My point--again, a simple one, or so I thought--is that I wish all religious bigotry were treated with equal outrage. That's it. That's. My. Whole. Point. Period.

Again, I challenge you to cite any other religion about which Hollywood has produced such vitriol on a consistent basis, or any other religion about which it is not only acceptable but fashionable to say truly vile things.

...this isn't about you. But thanks for the mini-biography, I'm sure we're all fascinated!!

This isn't about pedophilia, either. Yes, that scandal was a disgrace--and other faiths have suffered similar problems (though they don't get the same salacious headlines).

Most anti-Catholic movies, like Agnes of God, True Confessions, The Magdelene Sisters, etc. have NOTHING to do with pedophilia. The breadth of anti-Catholic stereotypes ranges far beyond pedophilia, taking in hypocrisy;, sexual frigidity (about as far from a sex crime as you can get);, deranged, abusive nuns; alcoholism; outright insanity; thieving church officials; and on and on.

Your post addressed NONE of these things. And your claim that there is no such thing as anti-Catholic bigotry betrays an astonishing sociological and cultural ignorance.

Name an equal number of films, songs, television shows, and celebrity quotes that attack any other religion.

This topic is about religious bigotry. In this case, a Catholic is being jusitifiably villified for saying hateful things about another religion. My point--which seemed fairly straightforward but clearly flew over at least one head the first time--is that it would be nice if such bigotry were not tolerated toward ANY religion. Not exactly a controversial stance--or so I thought.