Bill Maher attacks Pope, Catholic Church

The American Life League, a Stafford-based catholic defense organization wants comedian Bill Maher off the air.

On the April 11 episode of Maher’s highly rated HBO talk show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he accused the Pope of being a Nazi and of promoting sexual abuse of young boys in the Catholic Church.

“If you have a few hundred followers and they let you molest a few hundred children, they call you a ‘cult leader.’ If you have a few thousand, they call you Pope,” said Maher.

Drawing a correlation between recent government raids of a polygamist cult in Texas, Maher said the Catholic Priests should be held in the same regard any other child molester would.

The comedian, who is admittedly against all forms of religion, went on to say that “cults get raided, religions get parades.”

“If he had said anything about the Jews, Muslims or blacks he would have already been fired by now,” said Michael Hichborn, media advisor with ALL. “They expect Catholics just to turn the other cheek.”

The following week after Maher made the comments, he apologized for calling the Pope a Nazi, but said his protest of organized religion would continue.

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