SB1070 Update: Star blacks out religious/moral objections to law, again

by David Safier

Unless I somehow missed it, the Star has once again decided that a religious leader going to D.C. to object to SB1070 isn't news.

First it was when a number of AZ religious leaders went to D.C. to state their objections to the law in person to members of our Congressional delegation. McCain was unimpressed, and said so.

Now one of the Tucson leaders, Catholic Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, testified to Congress Wednesday about his objections to the bill.

The Star: nothing but crickets.

It's strange. We hear heated rhetoric, emotions on all sides. We hear Brewer talking about beheadings that no one can verify, then doubling down on her claim. All that gets covered.

But the moral/religious objections of many state religious leaders, whose moral objections should carry more weight than the pronouncements of legislators — and are certainly newsworthy, since they show it's not just crazy lefties and angry Hispanics objecting to the bill — somehow aren't considered ink-worthy by the Star.

Frankly — and I'm being serious here, not sarcastic — I'm confused. The Star should actually be interested in carrying the views of religious leaders. It's an interesting story, it could boost readership and letter writing. It seems to me like the topic is good for business.

Unless, of course, the paper is so cowed by the right wing screamers that it doesn't want to offend them by insinuating that some people of faith disagree with them.