Free Republic

The now-familiar specter of a journalist for a prominent newspaper fabricating a story has come up once again, this time involving one of New York’s most respected columnists. The controversy stems from an April 7 Newsday column by Jimmy Breslin on how religion helps inflict physical and mental brutality. Part of that column relayed a discussion he said he had had with Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition, at the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston. Breslin had failed to mention in the column where and when the conversation took place. Breslin wrote, “‘Homosexuals are dangerous,’ Sheldon...