I swear, reading something in Baptist Press is even more irritating than listening to some howling madman carry-on about how the Bible is totally true and trustworthy. Consider this smarmy offering, and notice that it’s the lead paragraph:
NASHVILLE (BP) — With same-sex marriage now legal in all 50 states, pro-gay activists are shifting their focus to issues like alleged workplace, housing and public accommodations discrimination. Some have even proposed stripping churches of their tax-exempt status and legalizing polygamous marriage.
Alleged? How prissy is that?
Blog-buddy Michael Hamar was forced out of his law firm after he came out; if memory serves, he was a partner. Later, he represented a man fired by the state of Virginia for the specific reason that he is gay, and the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the firing. Alleged my ass.
Now, I understand that Baptist Press reporters are probably aware that blogs and bloggers are inexhaustible sinks of wickedness and watchdogging, and therefore don’t read them and may not know those stories. But how is it even possible that the Baptist Press reporter, or at least his editor, doesn’t know that the campaign to overturn Nashville’s ordinance prohibiting anti-gay discrimination was organized in the Lifeway conference room? (Lifeway, y’all should know, is the wholly owned, not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Southern Baptist Convention.)
Which is reason enough to remove their tax privileges. Why on earth should anybody be compelled to subsidize discrimination against other American citizens or, for that matter, unctuous and breathless dishonesties like that lead?