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Making Whoopee With the NYT
24 November 2008A Texas megachurch pastor offers advice on "how to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!” Gretel Kovach for The New York Times reports. It's a decent little story, and that's its weakness. This sex story is too wholesome, a perfect example of the "innocuous spirituality" / "dangerous fanaticism" divide that marks so much religion reporting. Most American religion contains elements of both. At a time when gay marriage is the main battlefront of a culture war that's heating up just when it's supposed to be cooling down, couldn't the liberal NYT have spared a paragraph for this megachurch's views on the issue? It's "seven days of sex" program, we suspect, comes with some serious preconditions.
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