Some Southern California church leaders pushing political extremes

Aug 22, 2021 View Original Article
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    -4% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    32% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"That's something that could be seen as pretty intrusive on religious freedom, even if under the rules it's permissible."
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12% Conservative
"Other right-leaning churches have pushed back against the Black Lives Matter movement and spoken out in opposition of public schools teaching students about systemic racism."
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4% Conservative
"So Williamson said it's important to distinguish between discussing political issues -- such as Black Lives Matter, which his congregation would 100"
Negative
-12% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "That's something that could be seen as pretty intrusive on religious freedom, even if under the rules it's permissible."
52% : Other right-leaning churches have pushed back against the Black Lives Matter movement and spoken out in opposition of public schools teaching students about systemic racism.
44% : So Williamson said it's important to distinguish between discussing political issues -- such as Black Lives Matter, which his congregation would 100% support -- and representing a political party or candidate.
41% : He also said "execution is the just punishment for the ringleaders of this coup."
36% : American churches have always been political, taking stands on issues such as abortion rights or marriage equality.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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