Another report on tonight's BBC One News at Six that struck me as worth blogging about was Caroline Wyatt's piece on Pope Francis's opinions on the family.
Admirable as Caroline Wyatt's reporting can often be, this piece leant heavily towards the concerns of liberal Catholics - who were hoping for more from Pope Francis.
She mentioned such people's hopes but didn't mention (or consider) the reactions of conservative Catholics, who might have been hoping for less from Pope Francis...
....which is par for the course for the BBC.
And her chosen 'vox pop' (alongside the liberal cardinal) was a (male) gay couple unhappy with how things have turned out. Their family includes three children - two young boys and a little girl - and they wanted the Pope to give them his blessing.
I saw that and saw red. It seemed like typical BBC thoughtlessness (and naked BBC bias).
Though socially liberal myself (libertarian even), the thought of a little girl and her two little brothers growing up without a mother filled me with deep unease. No young family should lack a mother.
It's only while writing this post that it struck me that circumstances might have intervened. It might not have been a 'lifestyle choice' matter.
Maybe the mother died, leaving the father to look after the children. Maybe the father then found love with another man. Maybe the children are better off with their (loving) remaining biological parent and his (male) partner. And maybe that unhappy situation should be blessed by a loving church?
And maybe I should give up being 'a right-wing, anti-BBC blogger' and apply to co-present Sunday on Radio 4 instead.
Typically, there is a BBC Policy on this isn't there? As you say it's the "liberal Catholic" tendency position, wanting to turn the Catholic Church into a sort of super-charged version of the Anglican Communion (with which it could then unite). No one else's concerns are valid. Conservative Catholics don't get a look in. Neither do militant atheists. Neither do traditional Protestants who view Catholicism as a kind of devilish perversion of true Christianity. And followers of Islam who look forward to the conquest of Al Rum certainly aren't allowed a view.
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