The New York Times is being accused of showing their anti-Christian bias by accepting an ad that bashes Christians on the Supreme Court while they have rejected ads that were critical of Islam.

In 2012, a group of anti-Muslim activists had tried to place an ad in the Times critical of Islam and its stances on non-Muslims and treatment of women.  The newspaper said they would not run the advertisement because they didn’t want to “inflame” Muslims with an ad critical of their faith.

Then Thursday, the virulent anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation was permitted to place an ad in the New York Times that personally disparaged the five justices on the Court who voted to uphold religious freedom by condemning them as “all being Roman Catholic.”

Matthew Balan, a news analyst for the Media Research Center, says while Times has every right to decide what ads to run in their newspaper, the fact they would allow a bigoted attack on Christians in an advertisement while denying an ad critical of Islam in any way shows their bias.

Catholic League statement Bill Donohue said that there were multiple examples of bigotry toward Catholics in the media following the ruling.  He cited the Boston Herald that headlined a story “Court’s Catholic Justices Attack Women’s Rights.”