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The Christian Institute: “The Church of England has called on the BBC to appoint a religion editor to bring more depth to the Corporation’s religious output. Bishop of Manchester Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, the Church’s senior communications spokesman, said that it made little sense for areas such as arts and science to have editors, but not religion.”

ADF Attorney Jordan Lorence writing at Inside the Issues: “The Washington Post today flung a new slander at the supporters of marriage – that millions of American voters who overwhelmingly approved 21 state constitutional amendments defining marriage as one man and one woman in the 2004 and 2006 elections were callously duped by Karl Rove and the Bush White House to manipulate them to go to the polls and vote for Republican candidates. This is totally inaccurate, and I say that as one who was there . . . ”

Associated Press: “Iranian media have been prohibited from mentioning opposition leaders, including former President Mohammad Khatami, under a purported media directive that would further strengthen the government’s grip over the remaining news outlets.”

Associated Press: “Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists and the violence against reporters may increase, investigators from the United Nations and the Organization of American States said Tuesday.”

OC Weekly: “[T]he Ninth Circuit panel (dominated by two Democrat presidential appointees) determined that Judge Klausner had prematurely ended the suit because Stossel and ABC presented Price’s ‘statement in a misleading context, thereby changing the viewer’s understanding of the speaker’s words.’” Via Religion Clause. | Price v. Stossel, (9th Cir., Aug. 24, 2010)

Marybeth Hicks writing at Townhall: “Next year’s Academy Awards program ought to have a new category: Best Portrayal of a Sperm Donor. At least, that’s the role that’s being cast with increasing — and alarming — frequency.”

WorldNetDaily: “The Saudi prince whose post-9/11 relief check was rejected by former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani has found a more willing recipient in the city for his millions: the head of the Ground Zero mosque project. The same Saudi potentate, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, owns the biggest chunk of the parent company of the Fox News Channel outside of the Murdoch family.”

Pat Buchanan writes at Townhall: ” . . . one would have to be obtuse not to understand that a Western nation that opens its doors to mass migration from the Islamic world is taking a grave risk with its unity and identity. An apprehension about that is what Burke called the ‘latent wisdom’ of a people. This is not an argument for war with Islam, but for recognition that “East is East and West is West” and America cannot absorb and assimilate all the creeds of mankind without ceasing to be who we are . . . ”

BBC: “News bulletins must wait until a minute past the hour to allow for the devotional Catholic prayer, recited in memory of the Incarnation of Jesus. The bells have been a regular feature of state broadcaster RTE’s schedule since August 1950 – when they were introduced to mark the Catholic Holy Year . . . Another criticism of the Angelus broadcast is that it is by its very nature Catholic, and therefore excludes other faiths, a criticism that Ali Selim doesn’t take on board . . . The debate about the Angelus in Ireland then, is not necessarily a debate between religions as to whether or not broadcasting the Angelus bells is appropriate. It’s part of a wider debate on what kind of society Ireland should be – a secular or a religious one.”

AP Advisory: “We should continue to avoid the phrase ‘ground zero mosque’ or ‘mosque at ground zero’ on all platforms. (We’ve very rarely used this wording, except in slugs, though we sometimes see other news sources using the term.) The site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque is not at ground zero, but two blocks away in a busy commercial area. We should continue to say it’s ‘near’ ground zero, or two blocks away.”

The Hill: “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) called out The Associated Press on Twitter Thursday for its decision to avoid the term ‘Ground Zero mosque’ in its coverage.”

Peter LaBarbera writes at Spero News: “1) . . . federalized homosexual ‘marriage’ would override the documented will of the people in the 31 states . . . 2) Legalized homosexual ‘marriage’ will force businessmen and -women to subsidize homosexual relationships even if they rightly believe that those relationships are immoral and deviant . . . 3) Legalized homosexual ‘marriage’ paves the way for even greater pro-homosexuality indoctrination in the nation’s schools . . . 4) . . . public school parents would be barred from preventing proudly partnered homosexuals from teaching their kids . . . 5) . . . school textbooks will be re-written to validate homosexual ‘marriages’ . . . 6) . . . it becomes a very effective and practical tool in the further demonization and denigration of traditional religion in the USA . . . 7) . . . adoption agencies that adhere to that time-test natural model of family will be forced by state bureaucracies to place childen in homes that are motherless or fatherless by design . . .”

“The building was begun in approximately AD 600 as the Christian Visigothic church of St. Vincent.”

Kathleen Gilbert writing at LifeSiteNews: “Speaking with LifeSiteNews.com after the rally, Brown expressed frustration at the timidity of marriage supporters, and the slow abandonment of even conservative media, which has begun shying away from tackling the difficult issue. Even conservative icons Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck have recently indicated that they are at least unwilling to question the homosexualist position. ‘It’s frightening. People need to get their news from some source where it’s fair and the truth is coming out, and they’re just accepting the lies being told,’ he said.”

John-Henry Westen writing at LifeSiteNews: “Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor yesterday, famed conservative Fox News host Glenn Beck may have shocked many Americans by noting that he was not very concerned about homosexual ‘marriage.’ See the complete 6 minute interview. . . . The Glenn Beck revelation comes on the heels of two other startling announcements by conservative celebrity pundits in the last couple of weeks.”

The Hill: “The Hill compiled a list, in alphabetical order, of 25 must-follow feeds for the inside scoop on Congress.”

Gallup: “Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a ‘great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007.”

Rush Limbaugh transcript of August 12th: “RUSH: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, zoning laws. I’m sure have encountered them. Zoning laws tell churches where they can and can’t go all the time. There’s a group out there called the Alliance Defense Fund. The last few years they’ve been running all over the country suing cities and counties and states over churches being turned down by zoning boards, and they have not yet won a case, I don’t think. So zoning laws already dictate where you — the First Amendment’s got nothing whatsoever to do with building a church wherever you want to put one.’” | Contrast ADF press release, June 25, 2010: NH church receives more than $1.1 million over unconstitutional zoning restrictions | more RLUIPA related ADF press releases

More Folly Than Fairness: The Fairness Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Internet Age
Dominic E. Markwordt, 22 Regent U. L. Rev. 405 (2010)

“Drawing on scholarship from the Fairness Doctrine’s inception to its repeal over twenty years ago, this Article critically examines the rationales for the Fairness Doctrine’s reinstatement in light of the massive technological changes that have taken place over the past generation. This Article begins in Part I by discussing the history of the Fairness Doctrine, focusing specifically on the seminal litigation in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC. Part II discusses the Fairness Doctrine’s chilling effects on broadcasters’ speech from its inception in 1949 to its repeal in 1987. After a brief discussion in Part III of the Doctrine’s abolition in 1987, Part IV examines the persuasiveness of the spectrum and numerical scarcity rationales used to justify lesser First Amendment protections for broadcast radio and television. Part V surveys the post-repeal media landscape and explains how the diversity of voices available today undermines the rationale for the Fairness Doctrine’s reinstatement. Instead of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, Congress should pass legislation to protect the First Amendment rights of broadcasters. This Article ultimately concludes in Part VI that, given the exponential growth in media sources and viewpoints available to the average American, ‘[t]ruth and fairness have a too uncertain quality to permit the government to define them.’”

Politico: “Univision’s Jorge Ramos, an anchor on the nation’s largest Spanish-language television network, says Obama broke his promise to produce an immigration reform bill within a year of taking office. And Latinos are tired of the speeches, disillusioned by the lack of White House leadership and distrustful of the president, Ramos told POLITICO.”

The Raw Story: “Beck told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly why he didn’t devote airtime to the issue. ‘Honestly I think we have bigger fish to fry,’ said Beck. ‘You can argue about abortion or gay marriage or whatever all you want. The country is burning down’ . . . ‘I believe what Thomas Jefferson said,’ Beck continued. ‘If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?’”

CNN: “A group of young and tech-savvy moderate Muslims are trying to turn the tide against the growing number of radical messages online. It’s an uphill trek but one they say has to be done. CNN’s Deb Feyerick tracks Islam’s virtual battle.” | Video at link.

Victor Davis Hanson writing at Townhall: “We live in a complex, multiracial and religiously diverse society. A majority of black voters in California opposed gay marriage. Most Muslims probably concurred . . . In other words, there is no simple ideological, racial or religious divide between a monolithic ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Instead, we have devolved to the point where promiscuously crying “Bigot!” and “Racist!” signals a failure to persuade 51 percent of the people of the merits of an argument.”

Johann Hari writing at The Huffington Post: “For centuries, religion was insulated from criticism in Britain. First its opponents were burned, then jailed, then shunned. But once there was a free marketplace of ideas, once people could finally hear both the religious arguments and the rationalist criticisms of them, the religious lost the British people. Their case was too weak, their opposition to divorce and abortion and gay people too cruel, their evidence for their claims non-existent. Once they had to rely on persuasion rather than intimidation, the story of British Christianity came to an end.”

” . . . there are multiple reasons for conservatives to think carefully before digging in their heels against gay marriage.”

BBC: “Western-based anti-abortion campaigners are undermining efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health education in Africa, according to some international agencies.”

‘Hogamus higamus, men are polygamous; higamus hogamus, women monogamous’ . . . . Rebarbarization is just around the corner. Courtship, anyone?”

Politico: “In the wake of two polls showing seniors skeptical of health reform, the Obama administration has made a $700,000 national cable ad buy, featuring Andy Griffith talking about the Medicare benefits within the law, aimed at selling a key voting block on new provisions.” | Via Newsmax

NYT Editorial, “A Respect for World Opinion“: “Nativism in American politics has become so rampant that it is considered scandalous in Republican circles for a judge to acknowledge paying any attention to foreign courts and their legal rulings. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the few prominent jurists to speak out against this trend in recent years, gave an on-the-money speech last week pointing out the xenophobia on recent display in the confirmation hearings of Elena Kagan.” | Via FedSoc Blog

“Speaking on his radio show yesterday[July 28th], famed conservative talk show personality Rush Limbaugh said that he supports same-sex civil unions . . . ”

LifeNews: “The Associated Press surprised readers with a new story on the contrasts between adult and embryonic stem cell research and a headline indicating what pro-life advocates have long known: the use of adult stem cell research is helping patients now and far outpacing embryonic studies.”

Boston Herald: “The network is also adding gay characters to a few of its shows. GLAAD recently gave the network a failing grade for its portrayal of gays. ‘We’re very disappointed in our track record so far,’ Tassler said. Alicia’s gay brother will be introduced on ‘The Good Wife,’ a recurring gay character will pop up on the William Shatner comedy ‘S#*! My Dad Says,’ and Jeff and Audrey will pick a lesbian surrogate on ‘Rules of Engagement.’”

GetReligion.org: “A news release sent out by the Alliance Defense Fund identifies Keeton as a “Christian” and indicates that she holds ‘mainstream Christian beliefs.’ However, given that 78 percent of Americans identify with some form of Christianity, according to Gallup, more specific information on Keeton’s religious background and affiliation would be extremely helpful.”

LifeSiteNews: “Spain’s socialist government has fined the Intereconomia television network 100,000 euros (130,000 USD) for running a series of advertisements that it claims ‘attacks the dignity’ of homosexuals.”

NPR: “Duvall pioneered this more understated approach to faith in his 1983 film Tender Mercies. His performance earned him an Oscar and the enthusiasm of Christian moviegoers. … That realistic — and complex — approach to faith appears most vividly in a character of Duvall’s creation — a Pentecostal preacher named Sonny Dewey in The Apostle. Duvall wrote the script, directed the film and starred in it. In scene after scene, Duvall captured Sonny’s passion and intimacy with God — not mocking it, but letting it tremble or explode, as when Sonny confronts God after he learns his wife is having an affair. … Duvall tried to sell the script to Hollywood for 13 years, but found no takers. So he put up $5 million of his own money and made the movie he wanted. Duvall says the big studios would have insisted on their stereotype of a Christian white male: a judgmental hypocrite.”

ChristianNewsWire: “I wouldn’t dispute Mr. Sullum’s observation that the FCC’s current guidelines for enforcing the broadcast indecency law are ‘muddled.’ He might have added that the guidelines have become muddled in good part because of court decisions. But do broadcasters really need additional guidance to determine which indecent words they can air in the presence of children and how often?”

LifeSiteNews: “ABC Family, which was founded in 1977 as an extension of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network, has earned a ‘good’ rating from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its ‘LGBT-inclusive’ programming, which took up 37% of its original prime time programming over the 2009-2010 season. The only network with a higher percentage of . . . was MTV, which also became the first TV network to win an ‘excellent’ rating from GLAAD for its portrayal of homosexuals . . .”

Jonah Goldberg writing at National Review Online: “Many conservatives think JournoList is the smoking gun that proves not just liberal media bias (already well-established) but something far more elusive as well: the Sasquatch known as the Liberal Media Conspiracy. I’m not so sure. In the 1930s, the New York Times deliberately whitewashed Stalin’s murders. In 1964, CBS reported that Barry Goldwater was tied up with German Nazis. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times polled 2,700 journalists at 621 newspapers and found that journalists identified themselves as liberal by a factor of 3 to 1. Their actual views on issues were far more liberal than even that would suggest. … In other words, JournoList is a symptom, not the disease. And the disease is not a secret conspiracy but something more like the ‘open conspiracy’ H. G. Wells fantasized about, where the smartest, best people at every institution make their progressive vision for the world their top priority.”

The Christian Institute: “The decline in religious broadcasting on the BBC World Service has been branded a ‘disappointment’ by members of the House of Lords during a debate on the future of the radio station. The Bishop of Chester said that religious broadcasting has an important role to play by contributing to ‘religious understanding.’”

Ben Shapiro writing at Big Journalism: “This week, we found out that the supposedly conservative government of David Cameron is upholding the ban. Savage’s lawyers initiated a review of the ban by sending a letter to new Home Secretary Theresa May. In it, they lay forth the full history of the case, a selective prosecution which is mind-blowing in its moral blindness and suicidal impulse to kowtow to radical Islam … Apparently, they wanted to ‘help provide a balance of types of exclusion cases.’ In other words, they didn’t just want to put radical Muslim terrorists on the list. … This was a purely political act. It had nothing to do with safety of the citizenry or with justice. Documents from the Home Office actually show that the primary researcher knew that Savage posed no threat to the UK.”

The Daily Caller: “The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down. … Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. ‘I hate to open this can of worms,’ he wrote, ‘but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?’” | The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, founder of Journolist, responds here: “The Daily Caller’s story is wrong. “Journalists” did not suggest shutting Fox News down. A law professor wondered whether the FCC could do it. The journalists in the thread ignored or opposed the idea (which is of course proper; it’s absurd to think that the FCC would, or should, pull the plug on Fox), and then there was a long conversation over whether Fox was a news organization or an activist organization.”

The Daily Caller: “The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, ‘Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?’ … Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. … In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, ‘Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.’” | The Daily Caller rounds up responses to its story.

James Taranto writing in The Wall Street Journal: “What Ackerman proposed was to carry out a political dirty trick in order to suppress the news and thereby aid a candidate for public office. That’s about as unethical as journalism can get.”

Jeffrey T. Kuhner writing in The Washington Times: “Radical Islam has won a major victory in its war with the West . . . Britain’s new coalition government, led by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, has decided to uphold the ban against Michael Savage, the popular talk-radio host. Mr. Savage, who is based in San Francisco, has more than 8 million listeners on about 400 stations . . . According to British officials, Mr. Savage is on the list for one reason: inciting ‘hatred’ and ‘inter-community violence.’ He is a public menace who must be kept away from Britain’s shores.”

LifeNews: “Media Matters suggests that no discrepancies exist between Elena Kagan’s involvement with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists’ (ACOG) statement on ‘partial-birth abortion’ during her time in the Clinton White House and Kagan’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month. The following addresses Media Matters’ claims and points out Kagan’s misrepresentation of her involvement in this debate and the need for further investigation into Kagan’s involvement with ACOG and its ‘medical’ opinion.”

Huffington Post: “The U.S. State Department is secretly funneling millions of dollars to Latin American journalists, according to documents obtained in June under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). … Thus far, only documents pertaining to Venezuela have been released. They reveal that the PADF, collaborating with Venezuelan NGOs associated with the country’s political opposition, has been supplied with at least $700,000 to give out journalism grants and sponsor journalism education programs.”

Powerline (ad video at the link): “From Ben Smith at Politico, we learn that NBC and CBS have refused to air a provocative ad by the National Republican Trust PAC that calls on Americans to oppose the building of a mosque two blocks from the World Trade Center site . . . ”

SCOTUS Blog has this coverage yesterday’s ruling in Fox News Television, Inc. v. FCC. It includes a brief summary of the case history. The Blog also posted this analysis of the ruling yesterday.

FRC Action: “If there was ever proof that the Obama Administration has gone off the rails, it’s Amtrak. For the first time in the train service’s history, Amtrak has decided to spend a quarter-million dollars recruiting homosexual passengers. As you may know, Amtrak isn’t a private business. This is a government-run business, meaning that this $250,000 is taken directly from taxpayers’ pockets.”

“A three-judge panel in New York says a rule on unscripted expletives on live broadcast TV and radio creates a ‘chilling effect’ in violation of the 1st Amendment.”

WorldNetDaily: “The new Conservative Party-led government of Prime Minister David Cameron informed Michael Savage it will continue the ban on the top-rated talk-radio host’s entry to the United Kingdom unless he repudiates statements made on his broadcasts that were deemed a threat to public security.”

One News Now: “When it comes to the homosexual agenda, the media’s role — according to a pro-family attorney — is to desensitize the public by making ‘the absurd appear reasonable and normal.’”

ABC: “First Lady Michelle Obama brought renewed energy to the NAACP today, delivering the keynote speech at the annual convention one day before the nation’s largest civil rights group is expected to condemn what it calls racist elements in the Tea Party movement.”

Hollywood Reporter: “NBC has agreed to change the rules of a “Today” show wedding contest after receiving complaints from gay activists slamming the annual event as discriminatory. The morning show’s “Modern Day Wedding” contest will be opened to allow same-sex couple after network executives met with Thursday with representatives from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).”

Guardian: “Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be stoned, the regime has said, but family fear she will be hanged instead.”

Bloomberg: “Google Inc. said the Chinese government has renewed its Internet license, after the company submitted a revised application to meet regulations in the world’s biggest Internet market by users.”

James Turner writes at the Wall Street Journal: “”8: The Mormon Proposition” chronicles the role the church played in enshrining a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in California by supporting the 2008 passage of Proposition 8. As a spotlight on the suffering of same-sex couples and individuals who are rejected by family and church leaders, the film succeeds . . . Indeed, the fact that small minorities—gay and Mormon—can influence public policy through their activism reflects the basic health of our democracy. Thousands of people, many of whom had not previously been politically active, wrote checks, called neighbors and protested at rallies. While such observations are no consolation to California gay couples aspiring to legally marry, Proposition 8 did much to further the most vital political value of all, civic engagement.”

The Christian Institute: “The Spanish Government has controversially fined a Roman Catholic media group for airing a commercial in defence of traditional family values. Spain’s Ministry of Industry fined Intereconomía 100,000 Euros (around £83,000) for airing the advert as part of a broader campaign to protect family values in the nation.”

Christian Post: “Known for ‘intelligent Christian conversation,’ prominent theologian and cultural commentator Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is hosting his final live radio program Friday. … ‘As I’m now struggling with issues related to my other responsibilities it has become very clear that I’m going to be unable to continue a live radio broadcast like this on the same terms and schedule that I’ve experienced for the last several years,’ he said.”

ADF Attorney David French writing at Phi Beta Cons: “While I fervently wish CLS v. Martinez had gone the right way, the decision has at least spawned a tremendous burst of impassioned commentary from those who value the freedom of association and understand the importance of the university as a marketplace of ideas. As always, FIRE is one-stop-shopping for those interested in penetrating and persuasive analysis. Minding the Campus has run important pieces by K. C. Johnson and John Leo. Over at the Alliance Defense Fund Academic Freedom File, [Travis Barham] has put together a comprehensive media roundup.”

Associated Press: “The news agency run by China’s ruling Communist Party launched a global English-language television channel Thursday as part of efforts to expand its influence abroad.”

NewsBusters: “The $1.3 billion discrepancy failed to catch the attention of the nation’s major media outlets. None of the networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) or major newspapers (Los Angeles times, The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post) reported it. A Culture and Media Institute review of coverage found that only one newspaper listed among Nexis’ ‘major newspapers’ – The Houston Chronicle – even mentioned the GAO report.” | Planned Parenthood’s missing millions

Byron York writing in The Washington Examiner: In the past several years, newspapers have assigned reporters to specifically cover conservatives, but they haven’t done the same thing for liberals. It started in January 2004, when the New York times chose David Kirkpatrick to cover the conservative movement. The goal, as Times editor Bill Keller told then-ombudsman Byron Calame in 2006, was to identify ‘the [conservative] thinkers and the grass roots they organize’ and explore ‘how the conservative movement works to be heard in Washington.’ ‘We wanted to understand them,’ Keller said of conservatives. If you were trying to craft the most concise statement of the distance between mainstream media figures and conservatism, it would be hard to do better than that.”

Adam D. Thierer writing in The City Journal: “Imagine a world of ‘post-corporate’ newsrooms, where the state serves as the primary benefactor of the Fourth Estate. Billions flow from bureaucracies to media entities and individual journalists in the name of sustaining a ‘free press.’ And this new media welfare state is funded by steep taxes on our mobile phones, broadband connections, and digital gadgets. Sound Orwellian? Well, it’s the blueprint for a press takeover drawn up by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols in their new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism.”

InsiderOnline Blog: “[Michael Copps, a Federal Communications Commissioner] cites the ideas of Robert McChesney, a professor at the University of Illinois and founder of the group Free Press. Randolph May writes about McChesney at the Free State Foundation blog, noting some quotes that show McChesney clearly embraces the socialist label for himself. More importantly, the quotes reveal that McChesney sees government funding of news as essential to the socialist project to overthrow capitalism.”

The Christian Institute: “Religious programming is being squeezed off commercial television stations, with ITV planning to air just one hour of religious content this year, according to a series of newly released letters. The decline was revealed after the Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, wrote to the nation’s terrestrial channels asking them about their commitment to religious broadcasting.”

ADF Attorney Austin R. Nimocks writing at The Christian Post’s Advancing Religious Liberty blog: “‘I felt like, being a part of this project, that the message was really greater than my relationship is.’ These are the words of Nikki, one of the star characters of Showtime’s new series, The Real L Word, and she is 100 percent correct in her sentiments. While seeking to glorify homosexual behavior and same-sex relationships, The Real L Word provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into today’s equivalent of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. The monster being created? Making our children virtual lab rats through the intentional creation of more and more fatherless families. That’s a message that is quite disturbing. … [T]hese very young kids, when they need a father figure the most, will be subjected to their mother’s new same-sex partner who, as part of her rationale for participating in the show, wants to ‘break stereotypes . . . The bottom line is this–heterosexual sex makes babies, society needs babies, and babies need their mothers and fathers.’”

BBC: “Youths reportedly shouted ‘Juden Raus’ (Jews Out) as they attacked the dancers of the Chaverim (‘Friends’ in Hebrew) dance troupe last weekend. Police said several Muslim immigrant youths were among the attackers and two youths were being questioned. A German Jewish leader said she feared growing anti-Israeli sentiment.”

The AP omitted the fact that the attackers were Muslim. The only clue given is that it was in an immigrant neighborhood.

Press Association: Muslim youths attack Jewish dancer

AolNews: “A conservative legal group has asked a federal judge to force a Michigan bus company to run ads that offer support to Muslims who want to leave their religion, saying the ads are protected under the First Amendment. … ‘The only city so far that has dug their heels in is Detroit,’ said Robert Muise, a lawyer at the Thomas More Law Center in Michigan, the conservative legal group representing the Freedom Defense Initiative.”

CNN In Session: “On In Session this week, the trial of a Florida woman accused of killing her ex-girlfriend. Cynthia Monson and Patricia Thomas dated for approximately twelve years. Early in their relationship, Monson adopted two children. Monson says she killed Thomas in self-defense after Thomas threatened her with a gun and to take her children away. In recorded statements to the police, Monson claims that Thomas did not have a legal right to Monson’s adopted children.”

NewsBusters: “On Tuesday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin brought on another teenaged homosexual activist for a sympathetic interview to help promote their upcoming one-sided documentary, ‘Gary and Tony Have a Baby.’ Baldwin prompted Constance McMillen to give advice to ‘other teens who are suffering in silence.’ The anchor also didn’t press McMillen on how she might have inconvenienced her classmates.”

TV by the Numbers: “Building upon the success of Black in America and Latino in America, CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien will cover another underreported story, one of two gay men who want nothing more than what they each had growing up – a traditional family – and a child of their own. O’Brien reports a revealing one-hour CNN documentary that follows Gary Spino and Tony Brown on their struggle to have a baby that has a biological and legal connection to both of them via an egg donor and a surrogate.”

NY Daily News: “In addition, the platform says that homosexuality ‘tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit and leads to the spread of dangerous communicable diseases.’”

OneNewsNow: “The recent mass deportation of Christians from Morocco is getting the attention of lawmakers in Washington, DC. … Roger Kiska with the Alliance Defense Fund attended the hearing and points out that many people are now watching the situation. ‘There are a lot of governments involved: the Dutch government, the U.K., the European Union, the American government is involved,’ he lists. ‘TIME magazine, Christianity Today, the BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] — you name the international media outlet or the election government and they are watching this carefully, because this sets a dangerous precedent.’”

Christian Today: “According to the Sydney Morning Herald, England striker Wayne Rooney was prevented from sharing more about his faith as he answered a question in an off-camera briefing about why he wears a cross and rosary beads around his neck outside of official matches. Rooney has often been seen sporting the religious items during training.” | Related: Paraguayan priests blast FIFA ban on faith gestures

Salon: “One of the special experiences at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was seeing the premiere of Reed Cowan and Steven Greenstreet’s wrenching documentary ’8: The Mormon Proposition’ in the Utah mountains, less than an hour’s drive from the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Although the film is about how the Mormon church both bankrolled and masterminded Proposition 8, the now-notorious California ballot initiative that amended that state’s constitution in order to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry, it’s in many ways a Utah story . . . ”