Right Wing Leader Tells Church Abuse Victims To Shut Up

Most Americans are sympathetic to the hundreds of victims exposed to sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church across the world. Not William Donohue, the head of the conservative Catholic League. Donohue, who pulled in a salary of $342,500 in 2009, blasted abuse victims in a release from the organization today.

In reference to the victims of abuse quoted in a Boston Globe article, Donohue blasts: “these people don’t want to move on, and that’s because they have too much invested in maintaining their victim status.”

In the early 2000s the Boston Globe and other publications exposed a pattern of child rape and cover-ups that extended from the Boston archdiocese and around the country. Some members of the church leadership eventually went to jail.

In 2005 Donohue said the “gay community” should apologize “to straight people for all the damage that they have done.” In a 2002 MSNBC appearance Donohue asked, “what’s wrong with a gook joke?”