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Pulitzer goes to series blaming domestic violence on Christianity
onenewsnow.com ^ | May 14, 2015 | Bill Bumpas

Posted on 05/15/2015 7:17:53 AM PDT by PROCON

The Pulitzer Prize board is receiving criticism for giving an award to a South Carolina newspaper for a series on domestic abuse implying that Christianity and the Bible are the sources of the problem.

The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) won the 2015 public service prize for a seven-part series titled "Till death do us part.” But the paper blamed part of the problem of domestic abuse on "deep-rooted beliefs about the sanctity of marriage and the place of women in the home."

Tim Graham with the Media Research Center believes there's a natural tendency in southern states for newspapers to feel like they have to correct and reform the culture of the Southern states.

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Religion
KEYWORDS: christianity; domesticviolence; secularhumanism
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To: Migraine

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21 posted on 05/15/2015 7:43:05 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: PROCON

What about domestic violence in societies untouched by ‘evils’ of Christianity?


22 posted on 05/15/2015 7:52:22 AM PDT by Paid_Russian_Troll
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To: PROCON
for giving an award to a South Carolina newspaper for a series on domestic abuse implying that Christianity and the Bible are the sources of the problem.

Meanwhile, the beheadings and female circumcisions continue in the Middle East by the followers of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage....

23 posted on 05/15/2015 8:06:04 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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LOL! A heart-warming story.
Maybe her husband was really one of those 'founding father' Mohammedans that Obama references. And her husband was really talking about the Koran (which instructs the husband to beat his wife), and not the Bible.

24 posted on 05/15/2015 8:22:25 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: PROCON

I wonder if the Pulitzer Prize Board took a look at rap culture, with its “Shut up b*tch, suck my d*ck” mentality? “Oh, but that’s just MUSIC!”


25 posted on 05/15/2015 9:03:50 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: PROCON
Pulitzer goes to series blaming domestic violence on Christianity

The Pulitzer ceased to be relevant in any way for me since the pro-sodomy movement has taken over pretty much ALL of the communications, press, news, higher education and government at all levels, domestically and international.

My usual reaction is to avoid it altogether, and when I can't, just to say "So what??

26 posted on 05/15/2015 9:20:40 AM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: PROCON
I actually read through the whole seven-part series, and to say that it "blames Christianity" for domestic violence is....a bit of a stretch. The articles spread plenty of blame around for why South Carolina's rates of domestic violence are so high--the legislature, law enforcement, etc.--but doesn't quite blame religion or Christianity.

The closest the series comes to blaming religion for anything is in a section that discusses why women stay in abusive marriages. There, the article notes that, for many women, the religious vows they took upon getting married make it difficult to envision leaving their marriage, even an abusive one, but that is just one small bit in a very long (and, quite good) series of articles.

27 posted on 05/15/2015 9:29:30 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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