The NYT does Pope Francis

Get Religion unpacks the NYT  piece on Pope Francis for speaking the obvious.  Nobody denies that our schools are being used to teach kids about modern ideas of gender identity.  Whether you are glad or not will depend on your beliefs about gender identity.   It might come as a shock to that dwindling remnant of people who still think the media is a source of unbiased news, but the NYT first makes it clear what side it’s on by mainly quoting critics of the Pope’s statements.  The article goes down from there.

Julian Duln deserves points for bringing up some examples of what Pope Francis – and others around the world – think of the new ideological colonialism, often courtesy of the secularized, post-Christian, Western Left.

Another “Western value” frequently addressed by this pope is abortion. Also, here’s one story that explains why Africans get upset about why so much money pours in from the West to help control their populations. As the link explains, people are going hungry while groups from Planned Parenthood International to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation rain contraceptives down on them. So there is a history of people in Africa (and also in India as I discovered during a visit there) of resentment toward Westerners whose main priority is cutting African and Indian birthrates.

The NYT article is worth the read, but so is the GR piece.  As always, it unpacks how the NYT article was written, and how it could have been written if it wasn’t more concerned about ramrodding an agenda than reporting the news.