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The BBC doesn’t like Christians, and there are discussions of ways to change this. As revealed by the British conservative tabloid the Daily Mail, “the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.” To most on the right, this is not shocking news.
It isn’t news when the officially edgy Style section of The Washington Post prints a lengthy feature story that opens like this:
Sen. Hillary Clinton’s ability to be an effective member of Congress’s upper chamber is directly tied into her affiliation with a lawmakers’ prayer group sponsored by the Fellowship. It was in this group that Clinton first started turning herself into “the consummate Washington player,” as documented by Joshua Green in the cover piece of the November Atlantic.
A day before the David Kuo book leaked onto the airwaves, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on The Chris Matthews Show that “the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power.” Republicans were pandering to the values vote by bringing up gay marriage, all the while holding contempt for evangelicals, Carlson said. Was this a faint rumble or was this old news to those closely covering Bush’s faith-based initiative?
I realize that I am tiptoeing around the edge of the blogosphere rumor mill, but I want to comment on the much-discussed Los Angeles Times piece by Johanna Neuman about those terrible Religious Right people seeking a “Pink Purge” of gay staff members in strategic Republican offices.
If the leaders of the United States don’t understand the basic differences between Shiites and Sunnis, then what should one expect from the average American?
If you want to see an incredibly moving collection of Washington Post photographs of Amish believers mourning the deaths of the five girls lost in the Lancaster County school massacre, then click here.
The political firestorm over former White House official David Kuo’s Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction is as much about religion as it is about government bureaucracy and election-oriented politics. Is it a seminal work exposing the Bush administration as a bunch of frauds and political opportunists? No, journalists have already told that story, but it could prove to be a tipping point in prompting some evangelical leaders to reconsider their GOP allegiance.
The final two articles in the New York Times series on “how American religious organizations benefit from an increasingly accommodating government” deal with money. Lots of money. Reporters are known for being those students who failed miserably at math and thus decided to go into a career that supposedly would keep them far far away from numbers.
