The Washington Post has a religion story that many readers have submitted for comment. The headline could not be more promising:
Teaching 'good sex' in the classroom
It’s nice to see Rod Dreher blogging away again this fall, especially since he kind of wrote a GetReligion post for us. In a recent post, he argued that the New York Times Magazine is obsessed with sex and sexuality, especially from a progressive/liberation angle. As he points out, here are a few of the sex-related stories theyâve done this year (with links to some GetReligion responses).
Exposing wolves (only) in sacred spaces
The Baptist pastor said WHAT!?
Confession time: I live in Oklahoma City, but I don’t read a whole lot of news stories about my local city council’s meetings.
The politics of religious liberty
As U.S. Catholic bishops met in Baltimore this week, this was the headline from the National Catholic Reporter:
The particulars of personhood
I kept meaning to read up on Mississippi’s “personhood” initiative before voters voted on it. We’d had readers mention some problems with the coverage, namely that stories were burying the fact that pro-life groups were divided on whether to vote for it. Now, maybe you’ve followed the “personhood” debate. Maybe you haven’t. But try to read this Associated Press story tabula rasa-style. Imagine you know nothing, or very little, about the debate and see what you can glean from this story.
The biblical case for spanking
I’m not sure what to think of a front-page New York Times story Monday that tried to connect the deaths of three children with a self-published book by Tennessee preacher Michael Pearl and his wife, Debi.
A life: Ghosts in a Dorothy Rodham obit?
Just yesterday, I praised a member of the Washington Post team for weaving valid religious content into the obituary of a former Washington, D.C., police official whose life led him from trailblazing work as an advocate of racial equality into a remarkable final act as a Catholic monk and priest. The story showed unusual grace in portraying the themes that were woven through the life of the man who died as Father James Murray.
Fine line between racial pioneer and eugenicist
We’ve been living under the “fact check” era at newspapers for three or four years now. I tend to agree with the Wall Street Journal‘s James Taranto when he writes:
