David D. Kirkpatrick is back, with another scary story on the “issues that moral conservatives argue about” beat at the New York Times.
New York Times visits Mizzoo red pews: And the blue?
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Anne Lamott, call your agent
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is now two-for-two in the Democratic National Committee’s Director of Religious Outreach Sweepstakes.
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The Greatest Divide? Don't ask moral questions in pews
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Mapping America's souls
The red-and-blue maps of how each county voted in the 2000 presidential election have acquired an iconic power that may last for decades. You’ll see frequent references on GetReligion to red or blue states (or counties). Kedron Bardwell, who left an irenic comment on our recent Democrats & the God thing thread, makes good use of such a map on his blog, Flyover Nation.
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Democrats & the God thing
Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe has been all over the God-and-politics beat during the Democrats’ convention, and in his story “Party refuses to cede the religious vote” he reaches a sublime point of irony.
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When journos push causes
The July-August issue of Columbia Journalism Review hands a dart to KNXV-TV of Phoenix because news anchor Katie Raml spoke at two WISH List events. Here’s an excerpt of how the Darts & Laurels column describes Raml’s offense:
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Kerry to O'Malley: Don't bother
It’s not quite the same thing as the Democratic Party’s snub of the prolife Pennsylvania Gov. William Casey in 1992, but John Kerry’s campaign has broken with tradition by not inviting the host city’s Catholic archbishop to deliver an invocation during this week’s Democratic convention.
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Wish list for White House reading
Peter Steinfels asked several scholars a bold, even-handed question for his Beliefs column in Saturday’s New York Times: Which one book would you recommend to President Bush and Sen. John Kerry? (Beret tip: Philocrites.)
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With God, and the Times, on his side (Creeping Fundamentalism XI)
As you may have noticed, your friends here at GetReligion.org rarely, if ever, comment on op-ed columns. We’d need to open an entire second site if we started chasing religion into the editorial pages.
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