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On the problem of writers using evangelical as a synonym for fundamentalist, here are two paragraphs from the irrepressible Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan is writing about the tendency to treat Bush as the village idiot, but his humorous points are no less valuable:
It’s a rare thing to watch a journalist stick his pen directly into a vein and say precisely what he is thinking, but I suspect that is what San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford did a few days ago with his amazing rant titled “Is Your Religion Unsanitary? Is God telling you to love war? Loathe gays? Restrict women? Join the godless throngs now!”
Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe wrote an even-handed story earlier this week about black clergy in Boston who want to preserve the historic definition of marriage.
Anyone (with a high-speed connection) seeking the viewpoints of the Democratic candidates on God issues can pay a visit to the video page of the Interfaith Alliance.
Judy Bachrach’s profile of John Ashcroft in the February issue of Vanity Fair (available only in the print edition) is not merely a smear job but a sustained attack on Ashcroft’s faith. The piece is most annoying for its recycling of the absurd rumor that Ashcroft considers calico cats “instruments of the Devil.”
