Newsweek boycott

The Dec. 6 Newsweek cover story titled “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage” has drawn criticism from some faith groups.

Lou Engle, founder of a faith-based group called TheCall, is asking Christian subscribers to the news magazine to cancel their subscriptions because of the story, written by Lisa Miller.

In his news release today, Engle accused Newsweek with “catering to the Manhattan crowd, who think stories attacking religion are trendy.”

Engle, who was one of the organizers of pro-Proposition 8 events in California, said “The fact is an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that God exists and the Bible is His sacred Word.”

Proposition 8 was an initiative measure prohibiting same-sex marriage in California. It was approved by a majority of California voters in November.

“Lisa Miller is no authority on religion or the bible. The Bible is clear on the issues: homosexual marriage is strictly forbidden because it openly defies God’s design,” Engle said in his news release.

In the days to come, tt will be interesting to see what other feedback Newsweek and Miller receive.

Carla Hinton

Religion Editor

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SPURWING PLOVER on Mar 05, 2010 @ 5:35 pm

For NEWSWEEK to claim christ christ never existed by praising a atheists documentry then say that the bible approves of gays and now its even more worse recent issue about what babies and racsism is truly bad Lets hit them where it hurts in their bank accounts and BOYCOTT NEWSWEEK
Casino Deposit Bonus on Jan 04, 2009 @ 1:27 pm

thanks for the nice headups. This is so so incredible.
John on Dec 15, 2008 @ 7:38 am
I grew up in the church.

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Carla Hinton, an Oklahoma City native, joined The Oklahoman in 1986 as a National Society of Newspaper Editors minority intern. She began reporting full-time for The Oklahoman two years later and has served as a beat writer covering a wide variety of news, including social services, transportation, minority affairs and Oklahoma City Hall.

Hinton also serves as assistant editor and editor of the local news section for several years, but she is perhaps best known as The Oklahoman's religion editor, a post she has held since June 2002. She has enjoyed learning about the many different world religions in her role as religion editor and doesn't consider it a bad thing when colleagues refer to her as "the church lady."

Career highlights have included meeting renowned evangelist Billy Graham and covering local reaction to the election of a new pope after the death of Pope John Paul II. In her spare time, Hinton enjoys reading suspense novels (ala James Patterson), watching HGTV shows and keeping up with the activities of her two grown sons and (almost grown) daughter

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