Monday, May 08, 2006

Media Take Note: Our Issues are Not Your Issues

Over the past few months, it's been clear that the newsmedia want to sell units by promulgating a firestorm of fear, loathing and conflict over the potential for another gay bishop in the Episcopal church. On Saturday, Episcopalians elected a non-gay bishop, for spiritual reasons, not material ones. Materialists would have voted for the black candidate because he's black, for the gay or lesbian candidates because they're gay or lesbian--but, as the media reported (faithfully--plaudits to them for that), a majority of Episcopal Christians stated that their vote went to a guy named Mark Andrus because the Spirit moved them to thus vote. One newspaper article actually quoted an Episcopalian's remark about the Spirit moving delegates. Hurrah. I was glad to see that. We need more of the Spirit in the news, it seems to me, and less of controversy. Yet the media needs to sell units; can we somehow show them that the Spirit is what moves us? let's do more of that! and less of the heated controversy which inspires schadenfreude amongst the world's readers. What a concept!

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