ABC LIES: "CORRECTS" BAIRD WITH ANOTHER ANTI-CHRISTIAN FALSEHOOD
The ABC "corrects" one falsehood with another, still smearing Christianity as a faith that encourages domestic violence when it actually does the opposite. Check the amazing "correction" to the 7:30 report on Julia Baird's story.
The ABC "corrects" one falsehood with another, still smearing Christianity as a faith that encourages domestic violence when it actually does the opposite.
Check the "correction" to the 7:30's introduction to Julia Baird's story, which had made a false claim about evangelical Christians. That claim is now given context, but another false or unsubstantiated claim is put in its place: that Christians are just as likely as non-Christians to commit domestic violence.
Before:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 19/07/2017
Reporter: Julia Baird and Paige MacKenzie
Research shows that Evangelical Christian men who attend church sporadically who are the most likely to abuse their wives. Church leaders in Australia say they abhor abuse of any kind. But advocates say the church is not just failing to sufficiently address domestic violence, it is both enabling and concealing it.
Transcript
LEIGH SALES: In all the conversations we have about domestic violence, what’s rarely discussed is the role of religion. We talk about women in Islam, but statistically it’s evangelical Christian men who attend church sporadically who are the most likely to assault their wives.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 19/07/2017
Reporter: Julia Baird and Paige MacKenzie
Church leaders in Australia say they abhor abuse of any kind. But advocates say the church is not just failing to sufficiently address domestic violence, it is both enabling and concealing it.There’s very little Australian research on the extent of intimate partner violence in Christian communities. Overall the international studies indicate that intimate partner violence is just as serious a problem in Christian communities, as it is in the general community. US and Canadian studies for example found that Evangelical Christian men who only attend church “sporadically” were the most likely to abuse their wives, while those that attend the same churches frequently, were among the least likely. You can find more detail about the findings of the research here (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-18/domestic-violence-church-submit-to-husbands/8652028) and here (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-24/how-to-navigate-the-research-on-domestic-violence/8738738).
Transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: In a year-long investigation 7.30 has spoken with dozens of survivors, church psychologists and clergy about their growing concerns that not enough is being done to stop the abuse of Christian women. Julia Baird and Paige Mackenzie have this report.
This is bizarre and simply confirms that ABC has declared war on Christianity.
The ABC's new introduction claims:
Overall the international studies indicate that intimate partner violence is just as serious a problem in Christian communities, as it is in the general community.
But the author of the US study the ABC cited above, Professor Bradford Wilcox, says this is not at all what his study found:
The [ABC's] story fails the basic journalistic test of fairness by presenting an almost completely negative picture of Christian approaches to domestic abuse, one that does not square with the evidence that churchgoing couples, in America at least, appear to be less likely to suffer domestic violence and more likely to enjoy happy marriages.
Wilcox wrote one of the five studies the ABC and Baird herself once cited in her support - and they overwhelmingly reject her latest spin:
US Professor Christopher Ellison found men who often go to church were 72 per cent less likely to abuse their partners than were men who never went, adding: “Religious involvement, specifically church attendance, protects against domestic violence.”
And New Zealand Professor David Fergusson was clear: Christianity saves women. Tracy summed up his findings: “11.2 per cent of husbands who never attended church assaulted their wives.
But only 2.2 per cent of husbands who attended church at least monthly assaulted their wives, while 6.2 per cent of husbands who attended church sporadically assaulted their wives.”
Why won't the ABC and Julia Baird simply tell the truth: the more that men go to church, the less likely they are to beat their wives?
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