Blogress The Anchoress notes that the self-image police have apparently struck the hymnal publishing industry. Miss Kelly is distressed to find that some hymnals (including - sigh - the one in my church) features a change in the words to Amazing Grace. “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…†Has […]
In the wake of most Western media outlets cowardice in refusing to publish the infamous Mohammed, students at the University of Saskatchewan have followed in professional media's footsteps by refusing to publish the Mohammed cartoons, but showing far less concern that they might offend Christians. A newspaper cartoon targeting religion has once again sprung into […]
The Campaign to Defend the Constitution (except that whole freedom of religion thing) -- a liberal "grassroots" group is taking out ads linking Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Ralph Reed and Traditioanl Values Coalition Chairman Rev. Lou Sheldon to convicted felon Jack Abramoff. "We're trying to get the message out that things […]
I'm not watching them, though I did briefly find myself catching a glimpse when I flipped by and thought I had found a Wallace & Gromit cartoon to watch. It turns out it was the Academy Awards and I kept watching long enough to see Reese Witherspoon (hubba, hubba) announce that Wallace & Gromit had […]
I'm hopeful that the Muslims will stop rioting over these rather tame cartoons so that I can stop chastising the media for its failure to print them. It's a rare day when I find myself in agreement with "Fox News Watch's" Neal Gabler, who on Saturday's show called the newspapers and broadcast outlets that refused […]
For some reason this story didn't make it online, but as you may know the San Diego Union-Tribune is one of the majority of American papers that have refused to run the controversial Muhammed cartoons. The following is editor Karin Winner's explanation that appeared in Tuesday's paper. Karin Winner, editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune, […]
Well, it didn't take long for The New York Times to demonstrate that their policy of not offending religious believers was a bunch of bolshevik storytelling. Yesterday's Times, in a "Critic's notebook" analysis piece on the Muhammed cartoons controversy followed policy by not using any of the "blasphemous" drawings. Instead, they again ran the "artwork" […]
I must confess that I'm not the least bit surprised to find that the New York Times-owned Boston Globe only calls for the public to respect religious beliefs as long as those beliefs and believers aren't Christian. Eugene Volokh points out (first link) that when the topic was Andres Serrano's famous "artwork" "Piss Christ," or […]
Editor & Publisher is running an article on the controversial cartoons below and it contains this little gem from Associated Press executive editor Jill Carroll: Kathleen Carroll, AP executive editor, said the news cooperative has long withheld images it deemed offensive, such as photos and video of beheadings. "We have a very longstanding policy of […]
Today's New York Times has an article on some of the controversy surrounding the movie "End of the Spear." As I've written before, I think the film is a really good, moving film that, though religious, is not preachy. Shortly after I published my review of the film, I got an e-mail from a reader […]