The Reproductive Health article correctly bemoans the failure of big corporate press to recognize and present progressive religious voices. It does not seem to address the cause, that the big right wing corporate press is largely controlled by far right wing republicans who espouse the nutcake wing of the churchs. If you want diverse voices in media, you must have a diverse media owned by a diversity of people and firms. We have evolved into and essentially monopoly on media religious expression. The article covers an important topic, as far as it goes with it.

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. The author is ignorant about religion in America and has little understanding of the abortion issue. President Bush is a member of one of the liberal denominations, the United Methodist Church, as is Vice President Cheney. Their views do not represent the "religious right". The author does not realize that that the left of center mainline denominations are rapidly losing members, and so have less and less claim to being heard as widely as the larger and growing denominations. I am perplexed that Father Richard John Neuhaus is not mentioned.

Riscol manages to write a breezy tour through the "pelvic politics" of the religious right and the media's tone deaf approach to the leaders of progressive religion in America. While it does go over some fairly old ground and doesn't make much of an effort to get the perspectives from the press on their unbalanced coverage, she doesn't include a rather shocking quote from Deb Haffner which is, itself, worth the read.

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