Just the other day, Truth Wins Out criticized CNN’s sister network HLN for its one-sided promotion of Janet Boynes Ministries, and its attempt to sideline Jallen Rix and other survivors of ex-gay ministries.
Now we notice CNN’s one-sided promotion of the Apostolic Truth Tabernacle, a Greensburg, Ind., church that sings antigay songs — worshipping antihomosexuality instead of God.
Readers won’t learn from this article what the accepted definition of hatred is; instead, they’re told by the church that hatred has a new meaning which doesn’t apply to politically correct Christians. And if a verbally abusive church says so, it must be true, we guess, since the article doesn’t consult anyone else.
Readers also won’t learn that many (no doubt “incorrect”) Christian denominations and branches of Judaism not only affirm LGBT people, but welcome them as clergy.
Nor will readers learn the incidence rates of antigay violence in Indiana’s conservative religious communities.
The closest this article comes to objective journalism is an observation that the church’s claims of harassment by gay people were denied by the local sheriff’s office. In other words, the church is proclaiming untruths.
Now why would CNN promote — without input from objective sources and critics — a church whose modus operandi involves lying and singing songs of hate and ignorance?
Update: Contact CNN here. Contact HLN here.







Contact information for this organization please – specifically for the show involved. I think I can probably get some liberal religious folk to respond directly to them — which can be a bit of a shock to orgs. like them.
Regards,
Reyn
Survey–either way it’s a bad report and calling CNN’s attention to why it’s bad isn’t a bad thing.
Reyn, thanks for the suggestion. I appended contact information above.
Where is the “balance” they always demand in gay-related articles? When an article is ostensibly pro-gay, they always have a token paragraph or two by some known hate-group later. But when an article is about an anti-group itself, they don’t have an opposing POV. Very predictable
I know–balance is wonderful. I guess that is why perfectly reasonable comments are deleted.
But its your blog–in which you are free to present whatever, however–in the name of Truth of course.
Shut up you silly troll
I noted the piece was shallow journalism but hardly a promotional piece for the church.
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