More tripe from the Chicago Tribune. The media must think people are stupid. A disgustingly biased “news” story, which belongs on the opinion page, displays this headline: “In South, issue of gay marriage exposes hate and fear.”
This is objective reporting? The news editor, some editorial minion or the “reporter” herself made a value judgment about Christians’ opposition to homosexual “marriage” as “hate and fear.” It’s the opinion of others that it’s hate and fear, not fact. Disgusting.
While many Christians are calling for tolerance, some evangelical see homosexuality and same-sex marriage as an assault on the most sacred values of their religion. Nowhere has the opposition to gay marriage been more intense than in the South, where conservative Christian values are firmly ingrained….
As gay couples have obtained marriage licenses in places such as San Francisco and upstate New York, local governments in the South are scurrying to find ways to keep from legally recognizing them.
Scurrying? As you read the story, notice the way the “reporter” uses quotes by homosexuals and Christians critical of those who speak out against the abomination of homosexual “marriage,” as opposed to the way she uses quotes by evangelicals. We’re supposed to get the impression that they’re raving, backward, hillbilly lunatics. But we have no idea how much of what they said was left out.
If this were an unbiased article, the headline would read something like this: “Homosexuals and Christians Go To Battle Over ‘Marriage’” or “Southern Christians Seek To Uphold Traditional Values.”
Okay, maybe these are biased, too. But I admit it. Not only that, I’m an opinion writer, not a news editor. The Chicago Tribune ought to be ashamed. But there’ll be peace in the Middle East before that happens.
