A Christmas controversy has been brewing between the Green Bay City Council and an atheist-rights foundation that objects to holiday displays at city hall.
Have yourself a Wiccan little holiday
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Mighty mighty Methodists
Time‘s Jay Newton-Small reports on presidential aspirant Fred Thompson’s work in Iowa. Though he’s trailing behind Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, Thompson is gaining some traction by offering himself up as the true conservative in the race:
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Simon's simple Mormon Q&A
As the Divine Ms. M.Z. noted the other day (and Mark did, as well), many mainstream reporters who are covering the controversies about Mormonism seem to accept, as fact, that disagreements between traditional Christians and Mormon Christians are rooted in misunderstandings or bigotry.
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Enemies of Tiny Tim?
Baptist Press ran an intriguing story this week. It was one of those laugh-to-keep-from-crying stories from the sort-of-secular public square.
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Why kill the death penalty?
For four decades, opponents of the death penalty have waited for the moment when a state would abolish the practice.
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Context is everything
One of the sad consequences of journalists’ low reputation is that sources can claim mishandling even when it might not be true. Yesterday, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s comments about the Mormon religion in this weekend’s Sunday New York Times Magazine 8,100-word profile were revealed. He claimed he was taken out of context. Yesterday, reader Hans noted:
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Repeat after Meacham
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s cover story on what the magazine calls “A New American Holy War” reads less like a news report than a sometimes exasperated prep-school instructor’s departmental memo about a pair of bickering students named Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. A quick aside about Newsweek‘s headline: Calling a lively religious debate in primary season “A New American Holy War” is like referring to door-to-door evangelism — whether by Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses or Southern Baptists — as “Spiritual Waterboarding.”
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Handling a hot potato
Okay, so I hate delving into more political coverage, but recent stories about Mike Huckabee are just begging for criticism. To lay my cards on the table, I’m opposed to most all government encroachment and as such find Huckabee to be my worst nightmare. I know many readers here love Huckabee and others love every other candidate along the spectrum. More power to you all. However, we should remember to keep discussion focused on media coverage of this religion story rather than the political issues themselves.
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This. Happened. In. Canada.
When American legal scholars talk about defining limits on religious liberty, it doesn’t take long to map out the extreme borders.
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