Conservatives are outraged that The New York Times described President Biden in a recently published story as “perhaps the most religiously observant commander in chief in half a century.”
Experts quickly jumped in to remind The Times of former presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carters’ outspoken faith.
Pastor and Author Daniel Darling wrote on Twitter, “George W. Bush said Jesus Christ was his favorite philosopher and credited Billy Graham with hanging his life. Jimmy Carter taught Sunday School. Cmon.”
I think it is fair to say that Biden is sincere in a version of liberal Christianity, but the most religiously observant in a half century? Not even the most religiously observant liberal in that stretch (Carter). https://t.co/iHqqLaSGCr
— Jim Antle (@jimantle) January 24, 2021
He's more religiously observant than the Republicans you told us were turning the country into a Christian theocracy? https://t.co/WuTefOM8Wl
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) January 24, 2021
According to The Times article, Biden was reflecting Pope Francis’ stance on “environmental protection, poverty, and migration” by renewing the Pairs climate accord and calling off all construction of a border wall. The writer goes on to note that Biden received criticism from many Catholic leaders “for policies ‘that would advance morals evils,’ especially ‘in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender.’”
Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Caller News Foundation called out the media for their drastically different coverage of Biden versus that of his fellow Catholic, Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
“Lest we forget,” wrote Olohan on Twitter, “the media roundly mocked Amy Coney Barrett’s Catholicism. Her adherence to Catholic principle was used to suggest that she was unfit to be a Supreme Court justice. People suggested her large family was extreme and that she adopted her children for show.”
How the media treats a devout Catholic versus how the media treats a pro-abortion Catholic-in-name-only pic.twitter.com/2vOSA7rus0
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) January 24, 2021
At the same time, Roman Catholic bishops are criticizing Biden’s executive orders to apply anti-discrimination protections to certain groups, claiming it didn’t account for religious liberty and strengthened “false theories on human sexuality.”
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