How do you respond to a smear? If you are the Independent you respond with a smear of your own, it seems.
The Independent asks why report when you can reprint public relations?
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Time magazine takes sides in India's sex wars
Time magazine reports India’s Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the nation’s colonial era “sodomy laws”, ruling there is no “right” under the constitution to same-sex carnal relations. The court ruled that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code could be repealed but only by the legislature not judicial fiat.
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AP reports he did have sexual relations with that woman
“Can a bad person be a good theologian,” asked Mark Oppenheimer in the lede of an October column on the scandals surrounding John Howard Yoder. Should private failings overshadow public achievement?
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Is the media missing out on African-American church news?
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Reporters: beware of Greeks bearing gay gifts
The essence of life, its meanings, symbols and motives, can be found in television; reporting on the condition of man is reducible to vignettes from Seinfeld and Yes Minister.
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Viva la Eurorévolution
Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has yet to hear their shrieks.
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As on a darkling plain - Prozac and France
The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
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CBS discovers the Catholic priest shortage
I am reaching back a bit into my guilt file — stories I want to cover but for one reason or another have not touched. But the recent flurry of news stories about women priests and the Catholic clergy shortage led me to pull this item out of my bag.
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Mau-mauing The Times of London
The Archbishop of Canterbury has stated the Church of England was moving away from using faith as a criteria for admission to its church-supported schools, The Times of London reported last week.
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