More than a week after appearing at the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., former football coach and NBC Sports analyst Tony Dungy was still taking heat from the corporate media for not only his pro-life views but for his criticism of some of the more disturbing trends in contemporary culture.
NBC Out, the LGBT section of NBC News, accused Dungy of spreading a “transphobic myth” regarding students who identify as cats and did an investigative deep dive into his former tweets, accusing him of having “anti-LGBTQ history.” This included, among other things, tweets “critical of same-sex marriage, homosexuality and the LGBTQ ‘lifestyle.’”
Dungy’s employer wasn’t the only voice attacking him for expressing his Christian beliefs. The pile-on has come from many corners of leftist corporate media, including folks from CNN, The Washington Post, MSN, and The Nation, among others. What this media circus represents, at its core, is an arresting, if increasingly obvious, truth: The corporate media want to silence Christians from speaking out about their faith in the public square.
Media Reveal Their Hatred for Christianity
The latest dust-up over Dungy was tied to his willingness to speak out against abortion at the March for Life. ESPN panelist and Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone accused Dungy of being “regressive and intolerant” and of being associated with “zealots.” (That’s a bit risible, given that Blackistone called the national anthem a “war anthem” and uses his WaPo column to relentlessly push radical racial ideologies.) Blackistone further ominously warned
