The Boston Globe & Religious Bigotry

Dean Barnett's on the case:

THE NON-SEQUITUR in last week's editorial was sufficiently brazen and that it raised a lot of eyebrows amongst Massachusetts political observers. Some cynical analysts suggested that it constituted a threat of sorts: If Romney continued to take the national conservative lead on such hot button issues as gay marriage and embryonic cloning for stem cell research purposes, the Globe would not be above returning his religion to the forefront of the political discussion.

If the editorial was indeed a threat, the Globe made good on it this Sunday, with a lengthy, front-page profile of Governor Romney's relationship with his late father, former Michigan governor and failed presidential candidate George Romney. Curiously, even though the article wasn't on religion, it mentioned the term "Mormon" seven times (eight if you count the caption to the accompanying photo that also appeared on the Globe's front page).

Does anybody honestly believe liberals are the tolerant ones?