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Bush & Gibson, Sittin' in a Tree
16 December 2004Mel Gibson whomps George W. Bush by 11 points in the race for the Religion Newswriters Association "Religion Newsmaker of the Year." But the RNA fixes the results, granting W. equal billing with Gibson's Passion in the top slot of their top religion stories of 2004! Well, it's more complicated than that, and the RNA has more integrity than certain Supreme Courts we could name. The organization of 260 voting-eligible religion newswriters asked members to rank their top 20 choices, and the results are not surprising. After W. and Mel in a tie comes gay marriage (that's the way it happened; we're just reporting the results), followed by communion-denying Catholic bishops, angstful Anglicans, the pledge case, etc., etc. The only selection we're disappointed in is #12, which under the lede of anti-Christian persecution notes as a top religion story of the year the fact that "in Iraq, a four-person Southern Baptist humanitarian team is killed." Terrible, indeed. We've heard that some other folks have had a bad time of it in Iraq, as well.
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