Here we go again. It’s almost time for the annual God-and-gridiron tsunami.
Urban Meyer faces his sins (ESPN offers crickets)
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Catholic priest was 'assisting' in a gay wedding?
What we have here, in this short New York Times wedding announcement, is a dangerously vague and terribly loaded word — “assisting” — being used in a liturgical context of some kind. It’s crucial that the word “assisting” is being used in a way that directly connects it with another controversial word in this day and age — “married.”
Please respect our Commenting Policy
A gunman's shout: 'I am opposed to social conservatism!'
Long ago, before the cooling of the earth’s crust, I took my first news copy-editing class as a young journalism student at Baylor University. Anyone who has worked as a copy editor know that one of the first things you learn is how to keep bad stuff out of print.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Gay rights, Mennonites and lots of questions
The Associated Press has a story headlined “Pastor on trial in Vt; mom still AWOL with child.” It begins:
Please respect our Commenting Policy
When hating on Chick-fil-A, try to hide it better (UPDATED)
The Facebook page of Mark Krzos is like many others. He’s married to a beautiful woman. He really likes the band Ween. He posted an awesome Wilco performance from Jimmy Fallon the other night. He lets friends know that he’s incredulous that one congressman views an HHS mandate as a serious problem. He hopes that Gore Vidal rests in peace. There’s some hockey stuff. He really doesn’t like Mitt Romney. Like, really doesn’t like him. He is a huge fan of President Barack Obama. He’s got a post with the note “We are a PROUD city” showing the letter Boston Mayor Thomas Menino sent Chick-fil-A telling them that their CEO’s religious views meant that there was “no place” in Boston for Chick-fil-A. There’s some other anti-Chick-fil-A stuff. Some mockery of creationists. The usual.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Democrats back gay marriage: Who you gonna call?
At the moment, I am up in the mountains of North Carolina, which is one of those places where the occasional Democrat running for higher office will go out of his or her way to put the word “conservative” on the campaign yard signs so that they can try to hang on to the remnant of the good old days down here in the Bible Belt.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Are churches moving worship to Wednesdays?
Religion News Service has a story about churches “shifting” worship to Wednesdays. Or, at least, that’s what the headline as it ran on USA Today said:
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Scare quote epidemic spreads to natural family planning (UPDATES)
It’s been almost a month since a reader sent in a discussion of the use of scare quotes in the San Diego Jewish World by Dan Bloom. He says that his correspondents call them other things, such as “sneer quotes,” “horror quotes,” “air quotes” and “quote-unquote quotes.” And Jon Stewart calls them something that is not family friendly at all.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
That faith-free Times piece on single moms
It’s time for a simple poll question: OK, GetReligion readers, raise your hand if you think there is a moral and, in this culture, religious element present in most discussions of (a) sex outside of marriage, (b) cohabitation, (c) having children outside of wedlock and (d) all of the above?
Please respect our Commenting Policy