WashPost's 'On Faith' Pounds Pulpit for Tax Hikes on 'The Wealthy
September 20th, 2011 11:06 AM
The Washington Post religion page is thundering from the pulpit again, preaching to the liberal choir on the godliness of higher taxes.
In "It's not 'class warfare,' it's Christianity," "On Faith" contributor and liberal theologian Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite defends President Obama's call for tax hikes on top income earners, arguing in essence that President Obama is helping us all be…
NPR Boosts Suit at World Court Charging Vatican With 'Crimes Against H
September 18th, 2011 4:45 PM
NPR's Sylvia Poggioli filed a completely one-sided report on Wednesday's All Things Considered about a radical-left organization, along with a group purporting to represent victims of clergy sexual abuse, lobbying the International Criminal Court to investigate the top leadership of the Catholic Church, including Pope Benedict XVI, for "crimes against humanity." Poggioli played sound bites only…
Maher: 'In Today's Republican Party There's a Term for People Who Hate
September 17th, 2011 11:47 AM
It sure didn't take HBO's Bill Maher long to make his first hateful remark about the religious right.
Roughly one minute into his opening monologue on Friday's "Real Time" the host said, "In today's Republican Party there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing - Christian" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CNN Legal Contributor: Catholic Clergy Sex Abuses Could Qualify as War
September 13th, 2011 6:43 PM
CNN's legal contributor, and former legal analyst, Sunny Hostin stated Tuesday that the sex abuse cases involving the Catholic clergy could be considered war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
"I mean this is a war crimes tribunal and that is not to say that perhaps these crimes don't qualify as war crimes because we know that sex crimes and sexual violence do qualify," she…
Christianity Today Catches Up with Heather Mercer 10 Years After Captu
September 12th, 2011 6:07 PM
A month before the 9/11 attacks, American missionaries Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry were captured and imprisoned by the Taliban.
Their detention and subsequent rescue by American troops in November 2001 received extensive media coverage at the time, including criticism by "Dateline" correspondent John Larson about their proselytizing in a Muslim country.
So far, however, it seems no…
'Lifelong Catholic' Michael Moore Bashes Pro-Lifers as 'Really, Reall
September 5th, 2011 3:17 PM
When the Washington Post promoted snippets from Michael Moore's forthcoming book on Sunday, they portrayed Moore as a "lifelong Catholic" -- which is a bit of a strange label when a paragraph later, the Post was bashing the "uterus police" who oppose abortion as "really, really weird."
But then, the "Catholic" blurb the Post picked let Moore imagine himself as a playwright composing an "avant…
WaPo's Milbank: Rick Perry's a Theocrat for Believing Jesus is Lord
August 31st, 2011 3:51 PM
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is no libertarian, he's a theocrat, at least according to Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank.
His evidence? In his 2008 book "On My Honor," Perry is unapologetic in his firm grasp of orthodox Christianity.
"Perry's politics are religious in a way not seen before in modern-day mainstream presidential candidates," an alarmed Milbank insisted:
Who Are the Real Religious Bigots
August 30th, 2011 6:10 PM
As the 2012 presidential race gears up, leftist Christophobes are showing some signs of hysteria — or political opportunism; it's sometimes difficult to tell.
The New York Times' executive editor, Bill Keller, in a piece in The New York Times Magazine, argues that presidential candidates should be asked tough questions about their faith. Keller wants to know whether a candidate will place "…
Bernie Goldberg: I Wish NYT Was Concerned With Religion and Politics W
August 30th, 2011 1:35 PM
As NewsBusters reported last week, New York Times outgoing executive editor Bill Keller believes presidential candidates should be questioned about their religious beliefs.
On Monday's "The O'Reilly Factor," media critic Bernie Goldberg marvelously said, "I wish that he and the New York Times was as concerned about religion and politics during the last campaign when it pertained to Barack…
FNC Highlights Bloomberg Decision to Exclude Clergy from 9/11 Ceremony
August 28th, 2011 11:49 AM
Friday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC gave attention to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to exclude all clergy from taking part in the upcoming commemoration of the 9/11 attacks. Substitute host Juan Williams introduced the segment.
WaPo 'On Faith' Page Features Methodist Preacher Pushing for Gay Clerg
August 27th, 2011 2:30 PM
While I'm sure religiously conservative African-Americans would vehemently disagree, the editors of the Washington Post's On Faith page seem to think that the struggle to desegregate the American church in the 1960s and the battle to have openly gay clergy in the pulpit are similar and equally predicated on a notion of fidelity to the teachings of Christ.
The day before the Martin Luther King…
Catholic Priest on World Youth Day: Media Coverage Was 'Just Bizarre
August 26th, 2011 1:07 AM
I didn't go to the Catholic News Agency's web site tonight looking for a media bias column; I usually go there to find "positivity" posts for my home blog. When I clicked on an item with an intriguing title ("The Pope's Young Army"), I expected that the author, Father Robert Barron, would regale me with inspiring vignettes from the Pope's recently completed World Youth Day in Madrid.
Well, at…
NYT's Bill Keller Questions Faith of GOP Candidates, Compares Belief i
August 25th, 2011 2:58 PM
Bill Keller’s upcoming column for the New York Times’s Sunday magazine, “Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith,” raised familiar liberal paranoia about the conservative religious views of Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry. The official headline for the upcoming print edition: “Not Just Between Them and Their God.” Keller had no time for…
Coulter: Hell Is 'Chris Matthews and Contessa Brewer Sneering at You f
August 25th, 2011 10:02 AM
As NewsBusters has been reporting, Obama-loving media members have been on the warpath in recent months attacking conservative presidential candidates for their religious beliefs.
In her weekly syndicated column, Ann Coulter took a few of these hypocrites head on: