Washington Post now calling social conservatives ‘haters’

Published April 19, 2010 4:00am ET



Today’s Washington Post style section today has a profile of Joe Solomonese, the President of the gay activist group Human Rights Campaign. It contains this unusual sentence:

He’s not talking about conservative groups such as Focus on the Family. Solmonese is not talking about the haters.

So it’s now acceptable to refer to social conservative groups as “haters” in the pages of the Washington Post? Regardless of where you come down politically, this is deplorable journalistic practice.

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