Bias is back

News Media | The post-9/11 Talibanization of U.S. religious conservatives continues | Marvin Olasky

WORLD reported in our April 27, 2002, special issue that liberal and neoconservative pundits in the news media during the six months after 9/11 had indulged "in broad religious profiling.... The New York Times and its disciples would have us believe that conservative Christians are major threats to domestic tranquility." Four news stories in June (concerning Southern Baptist Convention speeches, a book tour by ex-Afghanistan captives Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, and the Supreme Court school-choice decision) created a good opportunity to see whether press biases had diminished—but regrettably, the bleats go on.

1: UnMerritted disfavor

On June 11 at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual gathering, SBC President James Merritt said, "We love homosexuals. God loves homosexuals. But He loves them too much to leave them homosexuals."

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August 17, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 31

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