WTF NYT?

[RockRaven]

7. His religion is highly germane insofar as it informed or justified much of his ugly behavior,

but in that case more specificity is required because that ugliness is specific to his subsection of Christianity and many other Christians from other subsections behave contrariwise.

But even then that is not the correct place for it in the article, nor is a mention only in passing appropriate. If they want to convey that piece of information because they deem it relevant and significant, they should be naming his denomination and church.

What NYT is doing there, IMO, is signalling to others in the in-group that "he's one of us, AKA he's a good person, AKA he should be mourned."