As we pointed out yesterday, James Dobson attacking Sen. Obama should really have not been treated as a major news story.

Nevertheless, wall-to-wall coverage persisted on the cables. We did not realize until today however, how bad it got.

According to a search of the Lexis-Nexis news database, Dr. Dobson was mentioned a total of 189 times on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News yesterday.

There was another religion story hot off the presses yesterday, too. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a groundbreaking survey of 35,000 Americans documenting the diversity and tolerance of people of faith and the growing consensus around issues like poverty and the environment.

How many mentions did the landmark Pew survey get on the cables? Just eight.

We decided to do something about this over at Faithful America because we don't believe James Dobson's opinion is worth more attention than the beliefs of the entire American population.

So we are sending a petition to the cables to let them know that there's a lot more to faith than James Dobson. It's really time they got the message.

Will you join us? You can here.