Bash Back!, a radical gay-rights group ("radical" meaning that they've crashed the RNC and the HRC dinner and distributed barf bags with "Corportate Pride Makes Me Sick" at gay pride events) has completely freaked out the Catholic League after they interrupted a church service in Mount Hope, MI.  The Mount Hope, an Assembly of God place of worship found their morning service interrupted after members of the group pulled a fire alarm, handed out pamphlets and yelled at parishioners. The Lansing City Pulse reports:

"The “action” began early Sunday morning at the Northstar Center on Lathrop Street in Lansing where a group of around 20 protesters gathered. Pink bandanas, signs, a rainbow-colored “Bash Back!” flag and a pink, wooden cross were distributed among about half the group — the “outside team.” The rest — “inside team” — were dressed in conservative clothes and carried Bibles and stacks of fliers, intending to blend in to the church‘s 11:30 a.m. “contemporary-laid back service.”

City Pulse was alerted to the Bash Back event through a press release and had no prior knowledge of where the “action” would take place or what it would entail.

“We’re having an action today,” one of the organizers told this reporter at the Northstar Center. “You’re in for a treat.”

Bash Back began picketing outside the church doors soon after the 11:30 service began. The group also handed out fliers, which were much calmer in tone and targeted more at the curious than the angry."

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Bill Donohue and his underlings at Catholic League are fired up over some of the Democratic Party's preferred blogs.

One hundred and twenty blogs have been credentialed to cover the party's Convention in Denver next week. While Donohue approves of some, he's vehemently opposed to others, including gay blog Towleroad:

Towleroad describes itself as 'A Site with Homosexual Tendencies.' Accordingly, it shows men in jock straps and underwear. It also has a post on Pope Benedict XVI that takes him to task for wearing a cape with ermine. Some of those who commented on this described the pope in a vile and profane way.

[This blog and Bitch Ph.D.] should be cut immediately from the list of credentialed sites. Neither functions as a responsible media outlet and both offend Catholics, as well as others. To allow them access to the Democratic National Convention sends a message to Catholics they will not forget.

Donohue then demands DNC Chief of Staff and Convention CEO Leah Daughtry banish the bloggers from the Democratic land. As if that's going to happen.

Read the entire press release after the jump…

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Can you believe it? Yet another conservative sex scandal!? Just when we were getting over cross-dressing Richard Curtis' resignation comes news of Catholic principal Paul Schum hustling his junk in fishnets.

Via Smoking Gun:

Meet Paul Schum. The Kentucky man, a Catholic school principal, is facing a prostitution charge after Louisville police found him dressed like a woman and loitering in an alley Tuesday night. According to a criminal citation, a copy of which you'll find here, Schum, 50, was wearing fishnet stockings, fake breasts, and "all black leather" when officers discovered him "loitering in high drug trafficking and prostitution area." The citation notes that Schum, who heads Bethlehem High School, had "no reason for why he was in alley…dressed up in women's leather other than for prostitution." Schum, now on paid leave from his school post, is due in court on November 27 to answer a misdemeanor charge of loitering for the intent of prostitution.

We wonder what anti-gay Cardinal Jesús López Rodríguez would have to say about this one. Or, better yet, Catholic League leader Bill Donohue.

There's simply no pleasing Bill Donohue!

Donohue and his Catholic League raised a stink last month over Miller Beer's sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair, which used the last supper as its advertising inspiration. Despite Donohue's protests, Miller refused to pull its sponsorship, but did ask the fair's organizers to pull their logo from the offending poster.

This wasn't enough for Donohue, who upped the activist ante by sending Miller lewd pictures. Why? Because apparently he thinks some naughty pictures would shame them into apologetics. And it worked! Miller apologized. But poor Donohue still isn't happy. Someone get this man a beer!

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Gay media watch dog group GLAAD will celebrate their sixth annual OutAuction, during which patrons can bid on pieces by Herb Ritts, Patrick McMullan and Rosie O'Donnell.

New York-based photographer Matteo Trisolini's take on the Last Supper will also be on the block. No word on whether Catholic League Bill Donohue will protest the event, but we bet he'll be intrigued to hear that Bud Light sponsors the queer celebration.

The world momentarily stopped spinning when Miller and Coors beer companies announced their impending merger. Seizing that moment, Catholic League president Bill Donohue expressed his hope that this deal with eradicate Miller's involvement with the leather clad, Last Supper defiling Folsom Street Fair:

Now is the time for S&M Miller to rid itself of its nasty image, so that the new company, MillerCoors, isn’t known as S&M MillerCoors. Since we haven’t gotten assurances from the Milwaukee-based brewer that it will no longer sponsor obscene anti-Christian events like the Folsom Street Fair, we are taking our plea to the Molson and Coors officers and families. Select pictures of what occurred at the street fair will be sent to them today.

It is hard to imagine the Coors family, with its stellar reputation, as well as the Molsons, a distinguished Canadian family, wanting to support public displays of religious bigotry and sodomy.

Wait, wait, wait…

Did Donohue just praise a Canadian company over a great American, self-determined company like Miller? That's the most unpatriotic thing we've ever heard! In addition to his blow hard, backward ways, Billy Boy's also harboring some pretty anti-American sentiments. Perhaps now we know where to find Osama Bin Laden: in Donohue's inflated sense of morality.

The Catholic League just can't quit busting Miller Beer's balls.

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