There’s an Associated Press story today that is equal parts interesting and frustrating. The set-up for “Texas church bans child’s photograph of Passion,” is certainly intriguing:
Context ex nihilo
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Parsing the abortion language
So it appears that we are staggering to the finish line on this health-care reform bill — maybe. To no one’s surprise, or, at least, no one who has paid any attention to American politics for several decades, the key dividing line continues to be abortion.
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Healthcare nunsense
I have a friend who has been on the health care beat for her paper for years. I saw her last week at a party and she looked a bit weary. I gave her my own views on the matter and she replied, in all sincerity, “I just want it to be over.” It is very difficult to be a journalist covering this thing. It’s hardly the most transparent thing to have been debated in Congress, it has about a million moving parts, special interests are fighting for last-minute inclusions or exclusions, and the legislative machinations are confusing for all but the most nerdy of parliamentarians.
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New lines on Baptist map in Texas?
Once again, we enter the complex and confusing world of the people called “Baptists,” that diverse crew that ranges from the Rev. Bill Moyers to the Rev. Pat Robertson.
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The good book of smut?
On the surface, a recent report by the San Antonio Express-News on an atheist student organization urging classmates to trade in religious texts for pornography seems harmless enough.
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Same-sex marriage, different response
Apparently I wasn’t the only Washington Post reader who thought the paper’s coverage of same-sex marriage last week was a bit lopsided. I noticed one of the reader questions posed in an on-line chat to the Post‘s Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli mentioned it as well:
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Tweeting an abortion
There’s a viral video out there that doesn’t involve Charlie biting his brother’s finger, Ok Go’s Rube Goldberg project, or a man on a horse. No, this one is much more serious. Angie Jackson’s video of having an abortion (right) has received more than 140,000 hits since she posted it a few weeks ago.
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The elephant in the tea room?
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times told us that Christian conservatives and the tea party movement were getting cozy. The same day, Politico told us that evangelicals “fear” the tea partiers. (We looked at those two stories here.)
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Until null and void do us part
The Roman Catholic Church doesn’t believe in divorce. It does believe in marriage annulment — maybe too much, if you ask some church leaders. Pope Benedict XVI made headlines, mainly in the Catholic press, when he addressed the issue in late January.
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