If You Don't "Get" Religion, You Can't "Get" America

The original sin of religion reporting is the failure to believe what religious people say. There's always an “other” reason for their actions. In much coverage of American Christianity, this mindset is obvious: You believe that God ordained marriage as the union of a man and a woman? Well, that's just bigotry in search of a belief system, religion wielded as a club against the marginalized.