Connections from "Doubt" to "TKAM"

The scene from "Doubt" shows a Christian service explaining the sins of gossip by the way of a story. The story is about a woman who felt guilty about some gossip she spread across town. She goes to the priest to ask if this was a sin. The priest says yes and the woman repents. The priest does not forgive, but instead, he tells the woman to go home, take a pillow and a knife to the roof, and stab the pillow. The woman does this and comes back to the priest. She tells him that she saw feathers flying everywhere. The priest tells the woman to gather all the feathers. The woman tells the priest that that task was impossible. Then the priest says, "And that is GOSSIP!" Some connections I can draw from "To Kill A Mockingbird" to this story is the abundant amount of gossip about Boo Radley. They are so numerous and strange that it is impossible to trace where they originally came from. Ms. Crawford is a prime suspect, though. Another connection is to the slander that Atticus receives. It is gossip that is meant to be heard and hurt the subject. Both of these things has to do with things that people do not know much about or are strangers of. Boo Radley has always stayed in the Radley place, so no one knows much about him anymore. Some people say that Boo eats small animals, look into other people's window's, stabbed Mr. Radley in the leg with scissors, died and got stuffed into the chimney, and scares little children (namely Scout). Atticus is about to defend a black man to the best of his abilities. No one has ever heard of such a thing and denounces it. They think that black people deserves no second thought. Since it was Mr. Ewell who accused Tom Robinson, it can be inferred that they would rather trust a rotten animal trapper who does nothing to contribute to society than a black man who is a good friend to Calpernia and has a family that needs food. Atticus is a legitimate lawyer protecting the American's right to an attorney and a fair court trial with a jury (even if the jury should be prejudiced). People keep saying that he is a man who values a black man over other principle. They think this is an insult since their thoughts on the values of a black man is pretty low. The truth is that Atticus values all human life equally. The other citizens of Maycomb County just do not understand that sort of thing. The strange and the unknown are constantly the victims of gossip. That also goes for the despised.