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Strange New Respect for Mormon Faith When It Comes to Amnesty for Illegals, Tweaking Romney

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Suddenly it's not courageous to disagree with the leaders of your religion: "Romney's Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church." Religion reporter Laurie Goodstein even showed respect for Mormon theology: "...it identifies with the immigrant experience, having fled persecution before settling in Utah; and it places a strong premium on keeping families intact, in this life and the next."

Clay Waters

After warning for years of the dangers posed by the Religious Right in politics, the New York Times is suddenly interested in injecting Mormon (and Catholic) religion into politics, at least when it comes to pet issues like amnesty for illegal immigrants. The top of Friday's National section featured religion reporter Laurie Goodstein's 'Romney's Tough Immigration View Is at Odds With His Church.'

WaPo Religion Blog Says Biblical Morality 'Illegitimate' on Gay Agenda

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Matt Philbin

“Bible Schmible!” That's essentially what an article on the Washington Post's “On Faith” blog by Susan Jacoby (aka. The Spirited Atheist) said about the moral and legal issues surrounding same-sex marriage. Jacoby approvingly quoted Judge Vaughn Walker's recent opinion overturning California's Proposition 8's restriction of marriage to a union of a man and woman.

CBS's Dickerson Questions 'Claim' That California Judge in Prop 8 Ruling Openly Gay

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:19:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

During a discussion of California's Proposition 8 being overturned on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, fill-in host John Dickerson questioned Family Research Council President Tony Perkins's assertion that the federal judge who made the ruling was openly gay: "You mention this claim that he's openly homosexual. I'm not sure if that's, in fact, the case."

CBS 'Early Show' Ignores Accusations of Bias Against Judge Behind Prop 8 Ruling

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:55:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

While Thursday reports on both ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today featured Proposition 8 supporters questioning the impartiality of California Federal Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to strike down the state's referendum defending traditional marriage, CBS's Early Show failed to provide any such arguments.

In Wake of Prop 8 Defeat, Times Reflects on Gay Marriage as 'Wedge Issue'

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:42:00 +0000

A federal judge's ruling against Prop 8, the 2008 voter initiative banning gay marriage in California, was the source of editorial joy: "...a stirring and eloquently reasoned denunciation of all forms of irrational discrimination, the latest link in a chain of pathbreaking decisions that permitted interracial marriages and decriminalized gay sex between consenting adults."

Clay Waters

Thursday's Times led with a federal judge declaring unconstitutional Proposition 8, the California initiative passed last year which defined marriage in the state as between a man and a woman, in a case surely headed for the Supreme Court: "California's Ban On Gay Marriage Is Struck Down" by Jesse McKinley and John Schwartz.

After explaining that the decision would not immediately lead to gay marriage in California, the reporters argued the pro-gay marriage side had the momentum.

ABC Repeats Judge: Gay Marriage Opponents Driven by 'Fear'

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Katie Bell

It was as if Judge Vaughn Walker was applying to write broadcast news copy with his decision overturning California's ban on same-sex marriage. And ABC's Terry Moran was more than happy to air it.

“Voters, [Walker] said, were driven by nothing more than a fear or unarticulated dislike of same-sex couples,” Moran reported on ABC's “World News with Diane Sawyer” August 4.

NYT Standards: Privacy for Illegal Immigrants, But Not for Prop 8 Donors?

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:43:00 +0000

Clay Waters

Kirk Johnson filed an overheated article from Salt Lake City for the front page of Thursday's New York Times: "'Immigrant' List in Utah Reveals Private Data and Sets Off Fears." Apparently this isn't what the Times means when it constantly pleads for illegal immigrants to be allowed "to come out of the shadows."

NYT Standards: Privacy for Illegal Immigrants, But Not for Prop 8 Donors?

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:14:00 +0000

Reporter Kirk Johnson overheats on the front page: "A list of 1,300 Utah residents described as illegal immigrants has sown fear among some Hispanics here, and prompted an investigation into its origins and dissemination."

Clay Waters

Kirk Johnson filed an overheated article from Salt Lake City for Thursday's front page: "'Immigrant' List in Utah Reveals Private Data and Sets Off Fears." Apparently this isn't what the Times means when it constantly pleads for illegal immigrants to be allowed "to come out of the shadows."

Holden Thinks Leftist Screed '8' Is Just Great

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:47:00 +0000

Stephen Holden, the Times' most liberal movie critic. embraces the pro-gay screed "8: The Mormon Proposition," which blames the Church for the vote repealing court-imposed gay marriage in California. Movies about women persecuted under Islam, on the other hand, are "lurid torture-porn."

Clay Waters

On Friday leftist movie critic Stephen Holden reviewed "8: The Mormon Proposition," a documentary detailing the role of the Mormon Church in passing Proposition 8 in California, the 2008 ballot initiative that defined marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman.

Holden apparently found nothing too partisan or out of balance in the pro-gay, anti-Mormon propaganda piece, merely hinting that it was "highly emotional" and that it "dives angrily into the fray."

CNN Airs Gushing Two-Part Report on 'Powerhouse' Anti-Prop 8 Lawyers

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:19:00 +0000

Matthew Balan

CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger returned to her roots as a slanted journalist on Wednesday's Newsroom with a glowing two-part report on Ted Olson and David Boies, the former rivals in Bush v. Gore who are now fighting to overturn California's Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex "marriage." Borger portrayed their coalition as "a script that could have been written in Hollywood."

WaPo Promotes Ted Olson's Anti-Prop 8 Efforts, Continues Gay Marriage Advocacy

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Melissa Afable

To social conservatives, Theodore Olson's position against California's Proposition 8 seems near-traitorous. That pretty much guarantees Olson will receive the plaudits of the left-leaning media, and on June14, a Washington Post article didn't disappoint.

Linda Greenhouse's Self-Righteous Stand on California's Gay-Marriage Ban

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:24:00 +0000

Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse lets down her liberal hair on nytimes.com in a column on California's Proposition 8 outlawing gay marriage: "Has anyone noticed that now that lesbians and gay men have left the closet to assert their equal rights as citizens, their adversaries seem to be running for a closet of their own?"

Clay Waters

Former Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse now holds court with a twice-monthly column for the paper's Opinionator blog, confirming the suspicions of many regarding her personal political slant. Two weeks ago she admitted donating to the Obama campaign after retiring from the paper (Times reporters are not allowed to donate to political campaigns).

Surprise: NYT Notices Harassment Tactics of Prop. 8 Opponents

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:10:00 +0000

"For the backers of Proposition 8, the state ballot measure to stop single-sex couples from marrying in California, victory has been soured by the ugly specter of intimidation. Some donors to groups supporting the measure have received death threats and envelopes containing a powdery white substance, and their businesses have been boycotted."

Clay Waters

Good for the Times for (finally) noticing the speech-squelching tactics of the far-left gay-rights supporters of California's Proposition 8, a successful ballot initiative last November which defined marriage as one man and one woman. It served to strike struck down a state Supreme Courtdecision ruling that laws against gay marriage were unconstitutional.

The Times Finally Finds a "Furor" Around an Obama Pastor

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:55:00 +0000

Not the anti-American Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but the anti-gay marriage Rev. Rick Warren.

Clay Waters

The headline over Jeff Zeleny and David Kirkpatrick's Saturday story intrigued: "Obama's Choice of Pastor Creates Furor." Was the Times belatedly digging into the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anti-American conspiracies, a topic it had scrupulously glossed over during it's pro-Obama campaign coverage?

Newsweek Gets LGBT Applause for Prop 8 Propaganda

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Matt Philbin

In case anyone still thought Newsweek has much at all to do with “news,” rather than everything to do with liberal politics, its society and religion editor went on a gay radio show to receive praise for an article interpreting the Bible as gay-marriage friendly.

Appearing as a guest on the Human Rights Campaign's XM Sirius Radio show, “The Agenda with Joe Solmonese,” Dec. 11 Lisa Miller also discussed the “right-wing uproar” in reaction to her Dec. 15 Newsweek cover story.