All this in a city where the idea of Yin and Yang is nearly as San Franciscan as hills and cable cars. People that can't recognize the political left are ignorant because they are poorly served by their news providers. There is a religious left, it's like the laws of physics, equal and opposite reactions applied to politics and religion. The San Francisco Bay Area has a very active and very visible religious left with advocates for homosexual clergy and same sex marriages, there are Gaian congregations and churches that fight for welfare rights and be assured, donations from Bay Area Buddhists have helped fatten Democratic party coffers. The Jesuits are found in Bay Area churches and missions, as are Maryknoll priests and other advocates of Liberation Theology, used by Latin American revolutionaries.
Presbyterian churches are on record supporting gun control, as are other churches.
None of these churches or their members are referred to in terms of religious and political pejorative. This de facto censorship is probably due to natural bias but if it wasn't, Examiner censors have a perfect record. There were two glaring slipups in the San Francisco Chronicle. Sun Tzu's Newswire states that An online search of newspaper archives maintained by San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner for 1995-1998 showed 234 references to the religious right but only two references to the religious left. A search of the Alta Vista search engine produced only 443 occurrences for religious left but showed a staggering 17,306 entries for religious right.