It never fails to amaze me just how extreme the anti-religious bias of the media is. I was reading an article about how the North Carolina legislature is amending the state liquor laws so as to allow restaurants and hotels to restock their supplies during the Sunday and Monday of Labor Day weekend when the state's liquor stores would normally be shut. The change is limited to the Charlotte area and is intended to allow liquor to be plentiful during the Democrat national convention which is to be held there starting on Labor Day. There certainly seems to be nothing about religion in that story. Nevertheless, the AP story says that the North Carolina liquor laws are a throwback to the 1930's when "Bible quoting teetotalers" were appointed to county liquor control boards. Sure, when Prohibition was repealed, it was up to the individual states to set their own rules regarding liquor. In North Carolina, there were undoubtedly people against the use of liquor who were appointed to the control boards. But why are they described as "Bible quoting"? Why indeed? The answer is clear: in the mind of the reporter for the AP, someone who quotes the Bible must be backward. Someone who quotes the Bible must be a rube. Someone who quotes the Bible must be stupid.
I wonder when we will see a comparable article describing prostitutes in some city as "atheist hookers" or a murderer as a "secularist killer". It is time for the AP and its reporters to recognize that they cannot constantly belittle religion anymore than they could belittle a race of people.
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