Gay Rights Activist Slams Conservative Values 'From The Last Century

February 8th, 2013 6:31 PM
With the Boy Scouts now in the national spotlight, Scouts for Equality founder and gay rights activist Zack Wahls was featured on the PBS NewsHour on Wednesday night opposite Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission.  While intended as a civil, constructive conversation, Wahls insinuated that Land was a bigot since, for people like him, “this is…

NPR Plays Up 'Liberal Religious Leaders' Slamming Ryan Budget

April 16th, 2012 5:54 PM
On Monday's Morning Edition, NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty touted how "liberal religious leaders said the Republican [budget] plan...was an affront to the Gospel, and especially Jesus's command to care for the poor." At the same time, Hagerty avoided mentioning the left-wing ideology of two critics of the proposal: Peter Montgomery of People For American Way, and liberal academic Stephen…

Baptist Leader Schools Andrew Sullivan: Evangelical Tie to GOP 'Pales

April 8th, 2012 8:20 PM
Newsweek's Andrew Sullivan got a much-needed education about religion and politics from not one but two evangelical leaders Sunday. The first came from Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention who in the midst of a heated debate on CBS's Face the Nation told Sullivan, "Any fusion between evangelicalism and Republicanism pales in comparison to the point of anemia compared to the…

'Progressive' Christian Jim Wallis: 'Stay Unborn as Long as Possible

October 19th, 2007 3:38 PM