How come the Orthodox get a free pass all the time? Almost everything that the liberal press like the Boston Globe here complains about in the Catholic Church nearly every day is also present in the Orthodox Church, but they don't get the constant bad press and hate-filled invective the Catholics do. If the press were consistent, they would criticize the Orthodox as much as the Catholics on the same social issues.
"How come the Orthodox get a free pass all the time?"
It works both ways, or all ways. The MSM does not even see, much less comprehend, Orthodox Christianity except as something "ethnic" (strange food, strange customs, strange language). So when the MSM says anything about Orthodox Christianity, it's usually to fit these preconceptions.
Because we do not condemn all the world thru the Papal decree that anyone who is not subject to the Roman Pontiff. That kinda brings with it a bit of contempt for the arrogance of a man to claim you must be subject to him to receive the gift of salvation Christ freely gives to those who are brought to believe by the Holy Spirit, no?