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The Gay Part
22 June 2005We're late in blogging Russell Shorto's fine NYT Magazine piece of this past Sunday, "What's Their Real Problem With Gay Marriage? (It's the Gay Part)." If you missed it, too, please read it. Shorto's doing some of the most honest mainstream press work on religious conservatism, from his piece on evangelism in the workplace to this one on anti-gay crusaders. In a long report, he gives his subjects plenty of room for their views. And he listens for the themes in their arguments, chief among them the antagonism of many toward homosexuality not just as a practice in itself, but as a symbol for all of secularism. The press has been quick to adopt evangelical phrasing such as "people of faith"; religion reporters would do well to follow Shorto's lead by adopting his unvarnished approach to the ideas that animate religious movements.
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