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THEY'RE SELLING JESUS AGAIN: The Catholic terrorists are up in arms over Kathy Griffin's Emmy acceptance speech for her show My Life on the D-List. What a shock. Seems everyone got the joke, but them. Apparently, the Catholics own Jesus, so all you other religions better find a new deity. Maybe Peter or Paul or John the Baptist. The Catholics will soon be trademarking Jesus, which seems hypocritical since he's a second class citizen behind Mary. The Catholics haven't been in the news lately since they've either paid off or hushed up all the little boys systematically raped by their priests and The DaVinci Code hysteria has passed. Luckily, Kathy Griffin -- a Catholic, by the way, although lapsed -- has come along just in time for the Catholic terrorists to get up on their high horse and ride it to every media outlet that will broadcast their righteous indignation.

Here's what Kathy said in her speech: A lot of people get up here and thank Jesus for helping them win this award, but I have to say nobody has been less helpful in getting me to this moment than Jesus. I don't know what I ever did to him, I just think he doesn't like me that much, and if he had his way, Caesar Milan would be holding this statue right now, but he's not and I am! So I guess all I can really say is, 'Suck it, Jesus! This statue is my God now!'

Are you offended? If so, get over yourself. Unlike Isaiah Washington and Michael Richards, Kathy Griffin was lampooning all the celebrities and sports stars who get up and make such a big production number over thanking God for letting them win, as if the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were playing favorites. Everytime some actor gets up and goes into that routine, I roll my eyes and they lose a little luster. Kathy is absolutely right -- Jesus has nothing to do with winning some award.

Freedom of speech and self-expression is under serious threat these days, folks. There's a big, big difference between someone using racist remarks and a comedian giving social commentary and lampooning the ridiculousness of celebrity culture. Kathy Griffin's remark would have been lost in the soundbite clutter if it weren't for a vocal minority of religious whackjobs trying to get some facetime on CNN and Fox to dictate the moral agenda. And the real upshot here is that Kathy never even mentioned Catholics, but because they think they own Jesus, they have to start flapping their gums. Catholic League President Bill Donohoe can suck it...suck it big time. He's right up there with the Pope when it comes to being a backwards, hypocritical, whackjob. Clean up your "organized" religion, Bill, catch up the 21st century and before you start calling Kathy Griffin's comments "hate speech," think about all those times you've issued your homophobic, anti-women invectives and then suck it some more, you sanctimonious asshat. And you can take that all the way to the Vatican.

So the Catholic terrorists have spoken and the Emmy's have agreed to edit Kathy's acceptance speech during the primetime telecast this weekend. Freedom of Speech takes another blow, courtesy of a bunch of religious zealots. Islamic terrorists, Christian terrorists, they're all the same. A minority of crazies who are allowed to do all the talking, get all the publicity and "represent" the religion. Come on, folks. It's your religion, too. Shut these nutjobs down...tell them to suck it. Jesus would approve.