Stupid reporter tricks - Religion edition

[Perd Hapley]

http://thefederalist.com/2016/06/17/new-york-times-claims-romans-calls-for-execution-of-gays/

http://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2006/04/reporters-crows-ears-and-karma-light-nuns

"The 84-year-old John Paul was laid out in Clementine Hall, dressed in white and red vestments, his head covered with a white bishop's miter and propped up on three dark gold pillows," wrote Ian Fisher of the New York Times. "Tucked under his left arm was the silver staff, called the crow's ear, that he had carried in public."

A Republican congressman read his colleagues a Bible verse from Romans that calls for the execution of gays.

Come again? Wait, what? What? What in the world is he talking about? A “Bible verse” from “Romans” that calls for the “execution of gays”? Way to bury the lede there, Peters. You found something that no one else has ever found in two millenia!