The University was scolded by the Catholic League Wednesday after a flier in the dormitories to promote Sexual Responsibility Week prompted the group’s president to complain to the administration.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue sent a letter to Rodney Bennett, vice president for student affairs, objecting to the flier replicating an iconic part of Michelangelo’s painting found in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

“This letter is in response to a complaint that has come to my attention from a Catholic student on your campus. It concerns an offensive poster that has been placed in the dorms at the University of Georgia. As you can see from the enclosed, the famous Michelangelo painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling that features the hand of God giving life to Adam has been hijacked to promote condoms,” Donohue wrote to Bennett.

“I understand that the University of Georgia has just finished having Sexual Responsibility Week. If condom distribution is to be part of that program, surely it can be done without needlessly offending the religious sensibilities of Catholics and Protestants,” the letter went on to say. “I hasten to add that the University of Georgia would never choose a depiction of Muhammad to hawk condoms. Indeed, only a few years ago an inoffensive depiction of this Islamic figure in a Danish cartoon led to murder and churches being burned to the ground. One can only imagine what would have happened had he been portrayed pushing condoms to youth.”

According to the Athens Banner-Herald, Bennett called and apologized to Donahue.�