The "liberal-leaning" United Church of Christ?

Ok, that's interesting. In its story about CBS and NBC refusing to air the United Church of Christ's "inclusiveness" ad, the AP calls the UCC the "liberal-leaning" UCC, which to me implies somehow that the UCC deserved what it got, or at the very least they have "an agenda" (which again implies that somehow their hands are less than clean in this "political" dispute).

In an effort to give the AP a fair shake, I did a quick check on Google and following the following AP references to other churches' views:

1. "Conservative-leaning (or conservative) Catholic church" - Zero.

2. "Conservative-leaning (or conservative) Baptist church." - Zero.

At least at a glance it seems that the only church AP feels the need to qualify (or disqualify) with a political epithet is a church being discriminated against for welcoming all people, a seemingly "liberal" concept. But if you're a conservative bastion like the Catholics or the Baptists, both virulently anti-gay, you don't see AP calling those churches "conservative-leaning" in their stories about gays and those churches.

Just saying.