The mass media loves to attack the Christian Right, the evil, bigoted, narrow-minded opponents of abortion-on-demand, homosexual rights, same sex marriage, etc.
They regularly tie the can to Focus on the Family and its head, Dr. James Dobson, as well as other groups who dare take a public stand on such issues. They turned up the heat on John McCain so high, that after he was endorsed by San Antionio tele-evangelist Dr. John Haggee, he repudiated the endorsement. McCain shuns discussion of spiritual matters for this reason, in the past having blasted Pat Robertson and Bob Jones University, among others.
But if you're a good liberal, particularly one of color, that has the full sympathy and adoration of the mass media, you can get away with anything and it will go unnoticed. Textbook example number one is Leah Daughtry, head of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
She is black and a pentecostal preacher with her own church in New York City. As a pentecostal myself, I can tell you that the liberal media loves to expose all the excesses of what they call "the holy rollers," for speaking in tongues, loud enthusiastic worship, bombastic preaching and heavy-handed fund raising.
There has not been a word anywhere in the media about Leah Daughtry's church, her pentecostal beliefs or any other matter. Believe me, as a great fan of black pentecostal churches, which I've attended a lot, their worship style, preaching style and audience response is much more over the top than anything the media goes after the Christian Right for. Daughtry has flown home to New York from Denver on weekends for a year to preach on Sundays. There is no mistaking what she is and where she comes from.
The media has just chosen to give her a free ride.
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