Stuck on Stupid (RANT)

Sometimes one can only shake one's head about the "culture wars"...between the far right bigots and the clueless left wing press...

So we get stupid headlines like this: No Christian Hoorays for Hollywood
CHRISTIAN groups have launched a furious campaign against Hollywood, claiming the Golden Globe Awards promote films with gay or "leftist" themes to serve a political agenda.

Well, that's not strictly true...the reviews on the Catholic bishop's website and on Hollywood Jesus gave Broadback mountain GOOD reviews...that noted how well the themes of illicit love was handled...

But that, of course, is not the point...The point is that reporters would rather have a "hot" story than a nuanced one...which is why I suspect these simplistic arguments are given more press coverage than, say, Bishop Chaput's nuanced arguments on the sanctity of marriage...(when the NYT tried to misquote the Bishop on another issue, Chaput actually published the entire interview on his website...(PDF here)..imagine the cheek of the bishop....Attention NYT: Never, NEVER mess with a Potawatomi...)

What the culture war is about is money, of course....opposing a "gay" movie lets you raise money, trumpeting a sad movie about love and betrayal is a "breakthru" for gay rights helps those groups raise money, and trumpeting the controversy sells newspapers.

What is missing is polite discourse about a very profound change in our social institutions...