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It’s been a rough month or two in religion coverage when it comes to national political topics. Though many reporters continue to do a great job, the overall problems with framing and accuracy have been horrible and well documented here.
I was seriously sick this week — bed rest and the whole nine yards — and am catching up on some news. I’ve sent out an APB on Twitter (from both my personal account and the GetReligion account) asking for any good stories at all — anywhere — by the mainstream media about religious liberty this week. Would you send along any links you have to stories that did a good job covering the major religious liberty issues in play right now in America regarding this HHS mandate from the Obama administration?
Ad fontes — to the sources — is a helpful phrase to keep in mind when reading press reports about church leaders. It is always useful to set what is reported to have been said by the pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury and other leading clerics against the text of their address. Sometimes the two do not agree.
At the beginning of last month, tmatt highlighted the main framing device in the news and commentary in the battle over the Obama Administration’s mandate requiring employers to provide coverage for abortifacients, sterilization and contraception even if they have religious objections:
We’ve had a few readers send in links to coverage of a First Amendment-related case out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. It’s a sad story that goes back to a 2011 Halloween parade. A small group of atheists marched in the parade, dressed as a Zombie Pope and a Zombie Muhammad. This outraged one Muslim father who attended the parade with his wife and son.
Thanks to technological advances, we have all sorts of ways to try to bring life into this world and to prevent life from going out of this world.
