Jay Fitzgerald (among others) points to a new map - put out by these folks - showing that contrary to word of a red state-blue state religion divide, people in the Southeast are less religiously adherent than people in Massachusetts.
It’s always good to match up political shorthand against empirical evidence, but color me unpersuaded. The map, […]
Maybe I was premature in pronouncing the death of the gay press. Susan Ryan-Vollmar has done a good job giving Bay Windows a sense of editorial focus. For those tired of the mainstream media’s lovefest with the Pope, go read her piece on John Paul’s homophobia. She’s absolutely right that the mainstream media - […]
This weekend, the New York Times had an op-ed from two sociologists, Michael Hout and Andrew Greeley, attacking the idea that Evangelicals are the Republican Party’s base. “We are repeatedly told,” they write, “they form the president’s unshakeable electoral base. But in truth, this claim is vastly simplistic: the fashionable image of masses of white […]