Comments on: Today’s Reading List – May 8, 2007 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/05/08/todays-reading-list-may-8-2007/ "Religion, Politics, the Presidency: Commentary by a Mormon, an Evangelical, and an Orthodox Christian" Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: CarlH http://www.article6blog.com/2007/05/08/todays-reading-list-may-8-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-4317 CarlH Wed, 09 May 2007 00:34:48 +0000 http://www.article6blog.com/2007/05/08/todays-reading-list-may-8-2007/#comment-4317 Tangential support for John's repeated warning that Evangelicals risk being tarred with the same brush that the left is using against Mitt Romney from a Washington Post article Sunday, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050401990.html?referrer=emailarticle" rel="nofollow">"Is There Disdain for Evangelicals in the Classroom?"</a> reporting on two surveys of academics:<blockquote>The only groups that elicited highly negative responses were evangelical Christians and Mormons. "When we ask questions like this, we're asking the respondent to say how they feel about an entire group of people, and whatever image they have of that entire group comes through," Tobin said. "There is no question this is revealing bias and prejudice."</blockquote> Writers for National Review Online also comment on one of the surveys <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjQyNGYwMmVmZDVmZDcxMGJiZTNiMTUwMjk2MTViYjU=" rel="nofollow">here</a> under the title, "Unholy Academy: Profs show hostility toward evangelicals." Unfortunately, this only confirms what a number of evangelicals and Mormons have sensed for a long time. Tangential support for John’s repeated warning that Evangelicals risk being tarred with the same brush that the left is using against Mitt Romney from a Washington Post article Sunday, “Is There Disdain for Evangelicals in the Classroom?” reporting on two surveys of academics:
The only groups that elicited highly negative responses were evangelical Christians and Mormons.

“When we ask questions like this, we’re asking the respondent to say how they feel about an entire group of people, and whatever image they have of that entire group comes through,” Tobin said. “There is no question this is revealing bias and prejudice.”

Writers for National Review Online also comment on one of the surveys here under the title, “Unholy Academy: Profs show hostility toward evangelicals.”

Unfortunately, this only confirms what a number of evangelicals and Mormons have sensed for a long time.

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