Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Alleged ‘Pro-Atheist’ Bias in the Media

NewsBusters (conservative media watchdog group) is crying “tyranny of the minority” in the Washington Post’s and MSNBC’s coverage of Michael Newdow’s inauguration suit. The complaint? Not enough counterpoint.
In the NewsBusters piece, Colleen Raezler laments that WaPo’s (very short) article includes only one counterpoint. Of course the quote in question is the only independent analysis of [...]

More on Obama’s (non) Faith-Based Plans

In my last post I wrote about Obama’s plans to overhaul Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiative” program should Obama be elected president. As mentioned in that post, Obama would put rules in place to ensure that federal tax-payer money used by religious organizations can only be used for secular programs. Furthermore, it would prohibit proselytizing and religious [...]

Faith-based Initiatives to Live on under Obama?

As many already know, President Bush started a “faith-based initiative” to use federal tax payer money to support religious organizations - and causing more cracks to appear in the already fragile wall of separation between church and state. Theocracywatch.org contains numerous links on this program here. None of this is, at this point in time, [...]

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