Snopes.com is supposed to be an unbiased fact-checking website. You'll see from my latest article that is anything but true.
After writing my October 15 article, “Christian Conservatives, Be Assured That President Hillary Clinton Will Declare War on You,” I came across an August 8, 2016 article on Snopes.com, denying that “Hillary Clinton said in a speech that Christians in America must deny their faith in Christianity.” (Snopes is a widely-used, fact-checking website.)
I began my article stating, “Make no mistake about it. If you are a conservative Christian and Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, she will declare war on certain aspects of your faith. Your religious liberties will be targeted, and your biblical beliefs will be branded disturbing, if not downright dangerous.”
Did I exaggerate or misstate the facts?
According to Snopes, I did, although, quite obviously, the Snopes article, posted two months before mine, was responding to earlier claims on some right-wing websites, not to my article.
Who got the facts right? Let me present the relevant information to you, and you can be the judge.
Note first, however, that in my article, I did not cite any of the websites critiqued by Snopes but rather an article from the Washington Post. There, the author, Marc Theissen, cited the same 2015 Hillary speech Snopes was discussing, claiming that, “Hillary Clinton made a stunning declaration of war on religious Americans.”
He added, “This is perhaps the most radical statement against religious liberty ever uttered by someone seeking the presidency. It is also deeply revealing. Clinton believes that, as president, it is her job not to respect the views of religious conservatives but to force them to change their beliefs and bend to her radical agenda...
https://stream.org/snopes-misreprese...fends-hillary/