While we tsk-tsk CBS for making stuff up about the Reagans in an entertainment product, why are we just learning ABC is devoting a “news” special to questioning whether Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married? Based on a novel, The Da Vinci Code?

This reads like a religious version of the infamous Maureen Dowd front-pager on the New York Times announcing that Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra had an affair in the White House. Doesn’t it seem amazing that the same people who refused to believe that Bill Clinton was an adulterer until all the DNA testing was complete can load up their pop-guns on Jesus of Nazareth? Talk about confusing the sacred and the profane!

As in ABC’s “Search for Jesus” a few years ago, the network seems determined to sell wild stories and conjectures about Jesus in a deeply pathetic attempt at ratings. News babe Elizabeth Vargas emptily proclaims, “For me, it’s made religion more real and, ironically, much more interesting – which is what we’re hoping to do for our viewers.” ABC “News” isn’t interested in truth here, but in being “interesting.” They might as well assert that Jesus wasn’t really crucified, but was abducted by space aliens. Doesn’t that make religion more interesting, too?