I wonder if Rogen would have any problem with a Catholic/Christian

If making jokes about heterosexual sex and relationships is fair game, then so should jokes about homosexual relationships and sex.

This is a fallacious comparison.

Good humour should be about punching up, not down. Homosexuals are a minority that have only very recently been granted the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and they continue to suffer persistent persecution, with some countries threatening to punish their very existence with death, and even relatively safe democratic countries like the US still full of thousands of people propagating anti-gay hate-speech and gay people still subject to violence on a simple account of their identity. Thus, one can not say that a joke that targets a gay person is the same as a joke that targets a straight person.

With respect to jokes targeting Christian or Jewish people, the situation is, I think, more complicated. It is only a mere seventy years since the Nazi death camps were liberated and until very recently, Jewish people were still unable to work at certain companies, purchase homes in certain communities and become members of certain clubs, on account of their ethnicity (regardless of whether they were observant/practicing Jews or not - which is another reason why one cannot make a direct comparison between mocking Christianity or even Islam, both religions, and Judaism, which is a religion, and a cultural and ethnic identity). That said, it is also arguable that despite the persistence of anti-Semitic hatred across Europe and even within some parts of the US, the Jewish community, on balance, does have more economic, cultural and social power relative to the average person of any race, ethnicity, religion etc. That is not to say that they control the media or finance as some rabid right-wing conspiracy theorists and neo-Nazis like to suggest, but I do think it is fair to say that by most measurements, Jews, although still vulnerable as ever to anti-Semitic attacks, physical, verbal or otherwise, are not, for the most part, an 'oppressed group', certainly not to the extent Jews were a handful of decades ago.

I'm still not sure, in view of their status as a literal minority (Jews make-up approximately 0.2% of the world's population, and only 2.2% of the US population) and the relatively recent historical persecution of Jewish people, not to mention the rise of far-right anti-Semitism in Europe, and the ever-prevalent hatred propagated by extremist Muslims (who admittedly belong to another minority group also subject to a form of persecution), that one can argue that making fun of Jewish culture is the same as making fun of the mainstream Christian culture (and bear in mind that most people nowadays celebrate Christmas to one extent or another, regardless of whether they are Christian, atheist and secular-Jewish, whereas only observant Jews celebrate Hanukkah and Yom Kippur).

That said, I do think an intelligent, reasonable, balanced and completely open discussion (without either recourse to racist/bigoted arguments, or conversely, attempts to censor individuals on account of over-zealous political-correctness) of what should be open to ridicule/mockery, and what is still, for the most part, out of bounds for matters of cultural sensitivity, should be welcomed.

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