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Your GetReligionistas have been jumping all over the Los Angeles Times, in recent months, because of its cheerleader reporting on issues linked to gay rights and gay rites.
Allow me to indulge myself again in the world of faith and sports. Don’t worry, something important — politics — may show up.
Don’t you love it when you are reading an interesting news story and a real, live religion ghost rears its head?
Several GetReligion readers (and former students) have written to let me know that there is a strange picture of me in their local newspapers.
It was one of those ugly newspaper stories that makes you read and read until it becomes hard to turn away — kind of like seeing a car wreck happen in slow motion.
The Hindu American Foundation is very upset with the New York Times because of its ongoing coverage of anti-Christian violence in the Orissa State in eastern India, leading to a series of three letters calling for coverage that focuses more attention on the role of Christian missionaries in that region.
You know something interesting is taking place on a campus when your student newspaper ends up being quoted in the New York Times. When your school is the world’s largest Baptist university, you just know that this is rarely going to be good news.
