Evangelical Christians and gays, united on one point….
A note on the controversy regarding an American Airlines pilot who evangelized over the PA system.
Quote from Christianity Today weblog:
“Amazingly, only one publication was able to score an interview with
Findiesen himself. Even more amazing, that publication is The Advocate,
a gay magazine—editor-in-chief Bruce C. Steele was on the flight. Even
more amazing: The Advocate’s article is fair, even positive, toward
Findiesen’s actions.”
Now what’s so amazing about the fact that the Advocate was fair?
It’s no more surprising that the Advocate conducted fair reporting than
that CT might be able to conduct fair reporting. Both are
issue-oriented magazines, intended for very particular audiences that
both see themselves out of the mainstream. (Frankly, the Advocate
and CT share more in common with each other than with mainstream
publications like the New York Times.) If CT can be “objective”
or “fair” in its reporting, why can’t the Advocate?
Is there something about gays that makes them more prone to project
bias than evangelical Christians? What are we to think of such
“reporting” on CT’s part?
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14 February 2004 at 9:00 pm.
Just a quick note to say I stumbled across your blog today and see some interesting stuff. I’m looking forward to reading more in the future.
17 February 2004 at 5:19 pm.
Nate, you rhetorical question-poser, you! I get your point. I wonder if behinfd the statement on the CT blog is the tacit acknowledgment that it would be virtually impossible for CT, as a publication with its target audience, to treat a gay subject fairly, and even postively, without having to publish the next month a double issue of angry letters to the editor.
18 February 2004 at 10:32 am.
Dan, that’s a very interesting point. If that’s CT’s case, then the blog editor over there (and I’m not sure they are really running a blog, as there’s no real way to comment, to interact, which seem to me integral elements of a blog) is pretty subversive. That already makes him more interesting than he was before.