I’ve been railing about the Religious Right—so much so that I’m back to using the term—in the past three posts (here, here and here) but it just occured to me: does the media give these religious wingnuts a free pass to a lot of presstime so that they could be laughed at?

I know that the anti-evolutionists of Kansas, along with folks like the irreverent “Reverend” Fred Phelps, do not represent the majority of America’s faithful. I detest them. I think that they make a bad name for plenty of people who call themselves Christian. But in all fairness, is the media turning these folks into caricatures, or is it simply that the jokes really are written by themselves?