Same-sex marriage

NY Times Tags Kim Davis As a Republican, Blames 'Editing Error'
By Tom Blumer | September 6, 2015 | 9:00 PM EDT

At the New York Times, a Thursday report by Alan Blinder and Tamar Lewin, with assistance credited to two others, originally identified Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, the center of national attention who has been jailed over her refusal to issue marriage licenses containing her name to homosexual couples, as a Republican. (The press has been mighty quiet about acknowledging that Ms. Davis would be okay with licenses being issued as long as they do not contain her name.)

Obviously, the "editors" must have thought, she has to be a Republican to be such a stubborn dinosaur. Problem is, she's a Democrat and was elected as a Democrat, facts that that have been widely known — including (not kidding) by the Times itself on September 1, in a writeup which Blinder co-authored, and in Rowan County election records available online since last November. The Times has added the following "correction" at the conclusion of the pair's report:

Kim Davis, the Media, and the Constitution
By Jeffrey Lord | September 6, 2015 | 8:09 PM EDT

If it were up to today’s media, there would still be slavery. And once the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, today’s media would have championed segregation and racism. 

Say what? 

Washington Post Compares County Clerk Kim Davis to George Wallace
By Bryan Ballas | September 4, 2015 | 3:16 PM EDT

Before Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was jailed for sticking to her religious beliefs, Janell Ross of the Washington Post was quick to take sides against her. On September 2 the Post headlined the story as follows: “We Have Reached the George Wallace Stage of the Same-Sex Marriage Fight.”

Ross begins this accusation with the same amount of objectivity as her headline.

On CBS, Salman Rushdie Compares Kim Davis to Islamic Extremists
By Kyle Drennen | September 4, 2015 | 10:23 AM EDT

In an interview with author Salman Rushdie on Friday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King teed him up to bash Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, imprisoned for refusing to issue gay marriage licenses: “What do you think about what's going on in Kentucky with Kim Davis, who’s standing up for her religious beliefs, when you were really the victim of religious beliefs, where they were trying to get you?"

CBS’s Pelley: Clerk Going to Jail Possibly ‘the Last Front in a Losing Battle Against Same-Sex Marriage’
By Curtis Houck | September 4, 2015 | 12:16 AM EDT

At the top of Thursday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley proclaimed that the jailing of Rowan County, Kentucky Democratic Clerk Kim Davis “could be the last front in a losing battle against same-sex marriage” as she had been refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing gay marriage on June 26.

Lefty Blogger Martin Longman: Trump Has Divided the GOP Between ‘Stormtroopers’ and ‘Ruffians’
By Tom Johnson | August 30, 2015 | 8:33 PM EDT

In March 2013, the Republican National Committee released what soon became known as the “autopsy report,” which looked at how the GOP might reverse trends that recently had caused the party to lose the popular vote for the fifth time in six presidential elections. Washington Monthly blogger Martin Longman believes that conservatives’ hostile response to the report’s big-tent ideas paved the way for the disruptive candidacy of Donald Trump.

“This was all supposed to turn on a dime when the presidential election started,” wrote Longman in a Tuesday post. “All this hate and resentment and bigotry was supposed to just get turned off and Jeb Bush would waltz in with his sunny Reaganesque nobility and his love of amnesty and Common Core and his Mexican wife and family…and the hive would settle down and get back driving around that ideological cul-de-sac like good little stormtroopers. But these aren’t good little stormtroopers. These are genuine ruffians. And they’re having a block party and they’ve got their own music provided by Donald Trump.”

¿Pura celebración? La cobertura de Univision al matrimonio gay en Puerto Rico
By MRC Latino Staff | August 24, 2015 | 9:46 PM EDT

La primera boda gay masiva ha puesto a todo el mundo de fiesta en Puerto Rico. O al menos esta es la conclusión a la que llegaría cualquiera que confíe y dependa de Univisión para recibir un servicio noticioso preciso.

Pure Celebration? Univision's Take on Gay Marriage in Puerto Rico
By MRC Latino Staff | August 24, 2015 | 9:11 PM EDT

The first mass gay wedding in Puerto Rico has everyone in party mode. Or at least that’s the conclusion anyone would come to if they trust and rely on Univision to provide them with accurate news.

WashPost Mourns Mainline Decline: 'Non-Theistic' D.C. Episcopal Dean Calls It Quits
By Tim Graham | August 19, 2015 | 7:16 AM EDT

Very liberal “Very Rev.” Gary Hall is stepping down at the end of the year as dean of the Washington National Cathedral, reported Washington Post religion reporter Michelle Boorstein. “Vocal cathedral dean stepping down” was the headline in Wednesday’s paper.

Boorstein began by calling Hall a “fierce progressive” – which made the Episcopal leader a Washington Post and NPR darling. But the paper was much slower to consider the notion that being harshly liberal might be driving donors and believers away from the church. Mainline Protestantism is shrinking. Might it be its increasing disdain for the Bible?

Please Stop: Now Slate Argues for 'Human-Machine Marriage' Rights
By Kristine Marsh | August 12, 2015 | 1:47 PM EDT

“Will the recent Obergefell decision protecting same-sex marriage apply to open the door to robot-human marriage?”

This absurd question is posed by Slate contributor and Arizona State University Law professor Gary Marchant in his Aug. 10 article "A.I. Thee Wed."

In his piece for Slate, Marchant claimed that the Obergefell v. Hodges decision confirmed the “fundamental right” of a person to freely choose “the nature of the relationships and lifestyle they choose to pursue.” Now, he said, that should apply to robots, too.

Suit: Craig James Claims Fox Sports Fired Him for Gay Marriage Views
By Dylan Gwinn | August 3, 2015 | 8:01 PM EDT

Former New England Patriot and SMU running back Craig James is suing Fox Sports for religious discrimination.

The former ESPN, and briefly Fox Sports, employee claims that his firing from Fox was due to comments he made opposing same-sex marriage while running for U.S. Senate. James’ suit was filed in Dallas County Court on Monday.

Press Still Unhinged Over Walker's Refusal to Say Whether He Knows Obama Is a Christian
By Tom Blumer | August 2, 2015 | 11:48 PM EDT

One of the more outrageous chapters during presidential campaign season so far, the press harassment of 2016 GOP candidate and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in February over his statement that he "doesn't know" whether President Barack Obama is a Christian, is back.

Nobody in the press seems interested in asking Obama himself how he can still profess to be a Christian and support homosexual marriage, especially when he referenced his Christian beliefs as a basis for his stated opposition to it in 2008. Nor are they curious in learning how Obama can square his self-professed Christianity with his support for abortion at every in utero stage — and arguably beyond that. And of course, nobody is asking Hillary Clinton to declare whether she believes any of her potential November 2016 opponents is a genuine Christian. Yet here was Philip Elliott, who recently left the Associated Press for Time.com, getting a case of the vapors on Saturday when Walker, asked again, basically said, "I don't know, but I presume he is":