Conservative RC Leader unleashes gay, black, Jewish stereotypes while condemning The Da Vinci Code

On the April 17 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, William A. Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, invoked stereotypes about gays, African-Americans, and Jews while arguing that Christians are under attack by eight popular books, including Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, March 2003). Donohue argued that Christians have every right to be offended by books that are "hypercritical" of Christianity, just as other groups would be offended by a book that claimed that "blacks are natural-born killers, or that gays are naturally born to be moral slugs, or that Jews are taking over the world."

Donohue's remarks came in defense of Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, who recently spoke out against several popular fiction books, including the The Da Vinci Code, which he found offensive to Christianity. As Media Matters for America has noted, Donohue frequently appears as a guest on Scarborough Country and other TV news programs, often attacking gays and progressives.

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