Year Of the Bible Reporting

I'm not going to bother to weigh in on the actual topic but rather the completely biased reporting on it with this article from Politico as being a polite but extremely disdainful bias against the legislation to declare 2009 the Year of the Bible.

Here is a sample from the first few paragraphs...

“Does that mean 2009 is not the year of the Bible?” mocked Rep. Barney Frank ­(D-Mass.), who is Jewish. “What is 2012 the year of? The Quran?”

“That’s an endorsement of religion by the federal government, and we shouldn’t be doing that,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), even though he has introduced his own legislation dealing with religion.

“Republican lawmakers with apparently too much time on their hands and no solutions to offer the country are pushing a resolution that will not address the nation’s problems or advance prosperity or even untangle their previous governing mistakes,” blogged the Progressive Puppy.

Okay so your "sources" are Frank who is a world-class ass, Nadler who is a hypocrit, and Progressive Puppy who clearly is the thinker of the bunch.

Then the article ends with these thoughts. Note that the claim of no legislation is rebuked by the last sentence of the article.

A search of Thomas, the online congressional database, for “Bible” yields just one other bill: a resolution to have the “Lincoln-Obama Bible” on permanent display in the Capitol Visitor Center.

The resolution specifically asks the president “to issue a proclamation calling upon citizens of all faiths to rediscover and apply the priceless, timeless message of the Holy Scripture which has profoundly influenced and shaped the United States and its great democratic form of government.”

As for the economy, health care, global warming and all the other issues on Congress’ plate?

“While we must focus on fiscal policies that provide relief to families during these tough economic times, an endeavor I have been working tirelessly towards in this Congress, we must also not forget to protect and celebrate our fundamental freedoms that the Bible has influenced,” Broun said.

Broun has gathered 15 co-sponsors, all Republicans, but says he’s looking for more and hopes Democrats will sign on, as well.

“This is not a partisan issue,” he said. “I want it to be bipartisan.”

Whether he’s successful or not — the same measure didn’t go anywhere last year — at least Broun and his fellow supporters can take heart in one fact: They already had a “year of the Bible.”

Ronald Reagan designated 1983 as one, with Congress’ blessing.

While I respect everyone to have the right to their own religious (or nonreligious) views, the Bible, particularly the Old Testiment is the founding document of the three monotheistic world religions and only the most close-minded athiest would say the Bible has no value as a document considering it is the foundation stone of many philosophies too.