UNITED STATES
Wonkette
by Kaili Joy Gray
Jun 08
What kind of fair and balanced “news” network would Fox be if it didn’t have its own rightwing whackadoodle Catholic priest on speed dial to pronounce God’s own truth to the half-comatose octogenarian audience? (That’s a rhetorical question.) As Fox’s official “religion contributor,” Father Jonathan Morris is often called upon to explain, in his priestly garb, what Jesus said about slut pills, or how Obama is raping the First Amendment — or, as he did on Tucker Carlson’s Sunday show, why the Duggars should not have to lose their reality TV show just because Josh molested four of his sisters and a babysitter:
We’re hearing such outcry. Get the Duggars off TV! It’s so bad for America! This is a bad example! How can you possibly allow them to stay on? Really?!? […] A social outcry, that they are somehow bad people, they should not be allowed on television — I don’t think so.
Lucky Duggars, they get their very own Catholic priest to go on TV and defend their right to be on TV, despite their past unpleasantness. Not that we’d expect a Catholic priest to understand the outcry over a family covering up sexual abuse of children — yes, that’s a pointed dig at the Catholic Church’s widespread cover-up of sexual abuse of children, in case you missed it — but we’re a little surprised that Father Morris appears so emotionally invested in protecting the Duggars’ reality TV career. After all, he says, if the Kardashians get to be on television, why not the Duggars, HUH??? And, like the rest of the “journalists” on Fox — and the Duggars themselves — he’s appalled that anyone would criticize this particular family or point out its “family values” hypocrisy when the Duggars never claimed they were without sin anyway:
What’s been shocking to me is all of these very secular headlines rejoicing at the downfall of the family that never said it was perfect.
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