Study shows nation divided along religious lines

In an incisive and timely analysis entitled "The Politics of Partisan Neutrality" published in First Things, Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio, two political scientists at Baruch College of the City University of New York, explore the "God gulf" in current partisan politics. The results of their analysis (using the Lexis-Nexis database) of how the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post wrote about the culture wars between 1990 and 2000 show overwhelmingly not only that the public media have ignored the significance of the religious issue but that they have concealed the extent to which an ideology of anti-religious secularism has itself become a significant player on the political stage.