Faith-Based Double Standards

Hardly anyone talks much about the faith-based initiative begun by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama. And there was hardly a murmur about Obama's appointee to head the program, the Rev. Joshua DuBois, a 27-year-old Pentecostal preacher.

A comparison of how the media have treated the two presidents and their faith-based programs during the first six months of their administrations (2001 and 2009) is the subject of a new study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The above is from Kathleen Parker's piece in The Washington Post (here) comparing how the media have treated George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives against Obama's expansion and deeper funding of the exact same program.

It's a charming example of double-standards.