Is GetReligion a Conservative Blog?
7 November 2007 - 27 חשון 5768 by Huw
Well, they hired a new writer who seems, in his first essay, to swing further to the right than Molly. Mark’s We’re not all secularists now seems to answer the question of GR’s political bias. If you want me to think otherwise, find some of those “religious left” writers that Terry always says he’s interested in.
This is a sly move on Sullivan’s part. He has repackaged liberal Protestantism as the centrist faith of the modern world. If he were writing about the early-to-mid 20th century, his claim would be arguable. But considering the worldwide decline of mainstream Protestant churches, his claim is silly.
Actually, Mark - the center is still the center, despite the fact that it is increasingly unpopular with radicals on both fringes. One can debate where that center is… but if you admit it to have been some place in the “early-to-mid 20th century” it is still there. It is the rest of us who have drifted. I’d expect, rather, an argument that proved, in fact, the Liberal Protestants were never in the Center at all.
As a side comment, attacking Andrew Sullivan as too liberal - whom I see as too far to the right for my taste on most issues - makes you a bit further along. Just so we’re clear.
