Google news recently served up a lot of headlines about a study on school bus injuries by one Jennifer McGeehan.
The most amusing headline was the one in Forbes: “School Bus Injuries More Common than Thought”. Well, it wouldn’t take much to be more common than that. Continue reading »
The media campaign to use the Ted Haggard scandal against Bush gives the impression that the National Association of Evangelicals is such an influential organization. But the NAE didn’t even make the Top Ten list of right-wing theocrat organizations at publiceye.org
And from this article at The Christian Post, it sounds like the NAE’S 30 million members don’t contribute enough money for it to have its own staff. Ted Haggard was running the organization out of his own church’s collection plate.
While trying to find out about this organization, I did learn that several years ago the National Council of Churches had a budget in the range of $70 million. But although it’s questionable whether there is another religious body as engaged in partisan politics as the NCC, I haven’t seen it on anyone’s list of theocrat organizations, either. Funny how that works.
Reuters, the political activist organization, put out an article with the headline:
“Evangelical America hit by gay sex scandal.”
The lead paragraph went like this:
“America’s evangelical movement grappled on Friday with a high-profile gay sex scandal that evoked torrid affairs of the past and embarrassed the politically active cause days before nationwide elections.”
One wonders how Reuters could possibly have known this. Did they do a poll of American evangelicals? For that matter, did they even research the question of whether American evangelicals had even heard of Ted Haggard before the current media frenzy began? Continue reading »