Orthodixie

“I guess hell froze over,” said Griffin, whose show overtook ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. “A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus.”

Holding up her statuette, Griffin topped off her off-script speech by saying, “**** **, Jesus. This award is my god now.”

FWIW, here’s the story.

HT THUNDERSTRUCK

UPDATE: Asked about her speech backstage a short time later, an unrepentant Griffin added, “I hope I offended some people. I didn’t want to win the Emmy for nothing.”

Griffin’s reaction to the imbroglio, according to a statement issued by her publicist: “Am I the only Catholic left with a sense of humour?”

“It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, ‘**** **, Muhammad,’ there would have been a very different reaction,” Catholic league president Bill Donohue said in a statement posted on the group’s website.

Comic Kathy Griffin’s “offensive” remarks about Jesus at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards will be cut from a pre-taped telecast of the show, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences said.

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Those who know me know I ain’t much on Halloween. I never was much on Halloween, even as a kid. It seemed a bit odd to me that perfectly normal devil-hating church folks would go all out, once a year, to root for the other side.

As I popped in to Kroger the other day my eyes were accosted with the images of bogey-ness. Goblins, the living dead, spider webs, and ghoulishness everywhere.

Did I mention brightly wrapped massive amounts of chocolate?

Then I received the following email from a young girl:

Dear Fr Joseph,

My parents don’t allow me to go to Halloween because they think that I will be killed or vampires might come out. My church doesn’t allow it at all – and my parents say it’s all about Satan. What should I do?

I was tempted to reply: “Yes, Charlotte, there is a Bogey Man …”

Scary, it’nit.

I mean, the scary part is the amount of money Americans WASTE on this occasion and, even more so, the fact that in most public school districts this religious “feast” – Halloween – is the only one sanctioned and celebrated.

Ah … but did you know that there was actually a school in Seattle that canceled Halloween festivities a few years ago?

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