Great Post By Mollie Over At Get Religion

The awesomeness that is Mollie Zeigler Hemmingway over at Get Religion has a great piece here on Newsweek’s cover story on gay marriage by senior editor Lisa Miller. Mollie takes Miller out to the proverbial woodshed for her selective and sloppy exegeting of Scripture that qualifies as journalistic malfeasance. What a great read!

I was out of town all last week so I had plenty of time to play on the web. One of the things that have really struck me was the lack of coverage of the opposition to Prop 8 out in California that passed on Election Day. I believe that if the opposition was shown making the speeches that I saw last week while stuck in a hotel room, the amendment would have passed with a majority that

If the rage and venom that was directed, for the most part, at the Mormons would have been directed at any other group, excluding Christians of course, there would have been charges of hate speech. If Christian groups would have spewed half of the vitriol as the opposition, there would have been lawsuits and fire bombings instead of protests outside of churches and vandalism.