Two sides of the issue
Teh Internets is the greatest thing ever and the worst thing ever. Of course, you could say that about journalism itself, too. I was browsing Google News and found these two articles in the top 3 listings for this particular story.
CitizenLink.org (”helping you defend the family”) points out that rulings against gay marriage will, of course, save marriage (?) and will stop those “homosexual activists” from getting their way:
[Chairman of Focus on Family Action Dr.] Dobson said Americans are fed up with activist judges attempting to re-engineer the social structure of their states and the nation with a few strokes of a pen.
Gay City News doesn’t agree:
Seizing upon an illogical argument previously embraced by the Indiana Court of Appeals, a majority of New York’s highest court ruled on July 6 that it is rational for the Legislature to have excluded same-sex couples from marriage in order to encourage heterosexuals, who might carelessly or accidentally conceive children, to marry.
The radical perspectives of both sides make this Forbes article, the third in Google’s group, look far less biased.
It really angers me when critics accuse bloggers of being closed-minded and opinionated. The bloggers aren’t the problem; the problem is organizations that mask themselves as news outfits in order to spread their biased message.
