January 15, 2007

An Acceptable Prejudice

I'd love to commend the Washington Post for their great article on a young man from a strict evangelical background attending a secular university. It really is a great article -- but there is a real story in the article that gets overlooked by the paper.

Which is not to say the article doesn't have a promising beginning.

Danny Leydorf's world was about to be turned upside down, and he couldn't wait.

The extroverted teenager had shined at the mostly evangelical Annapolis Area Christian School since kindergarten, but now he wanted to test his faith in a more diverse world. With hopes of becoming a lawyer or politician, he badly wanted to understand people who didn't think like him.

"I feel like I exist to be interacting," the lanky, towheaded 19-year-old said eagerly one day last summer, shortly after his graduation, "and part of that is just getting out there."

So he'd deliberately picked a large, secular college: the University of Maryland. But the week before he was to leave, the wider world dealt him a blow.

And that blow is, in my opinion, the story that the article misses. Here it is.

"I hate evangelical Christians," read the Facebook.com profile of his roommate-to-be, who had seemed so perfect on the phone. He loved politics and "The Simpsons," like Leydorf, and they even had the same views about how to set up the room. Could it still work?

Excuse me -- the focus of the article remains Danny Leydorf's experiences? Shouldn't the Washington Post instead be writing about "The New Intolerance" at institutions of higher education?

Or is the level of intolerance towards Christians in our elite media institutions so high that those who report and edit there cannot even recognize such bigotry for what it is? And are those readers who do not recognize the bigotry in the roommate's words really suffering from their own bigotry-induced blind-spot?

By the way -- I still encourage folks to read the article, despite this obvious flaw.

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