Fundamentalists?

I was reading a post recently by my good friends The Bru's where they mentioned a church group described by the media as "fundamentalist" who were protesting the funeral of the Marine who was recently found murdered. They apparently believe that the war in Iraq is our punishment for the homosexuality in our culture, if I understand what I am reading correctly. Now, there is always the chance the they have been misquoted in some way, but generally speaking, that is probably their beliefs. The problem is, those beliefs are NOT fundamentalist.

The media loves to portray any religious behavior that is weird as fundamentalism, but if you think about what the word means, it means believing the fundamentals of a religion. In the case of the original use of the term, it was used by Orthodox Protestant Christians who were concerned about all of the things that were watering down the word of God. These basic fundamentals should probably include: The Virgin Birth, the Trinity, the simultaneous Godhood and humanity of Christ, Christ's sacrificial death atoning for sin, all of the things that you would normally see in a Bible-based church's statement of faith.

What do we normally see and hear from the media about fundamentalism? All of the strange beliefs that are not spelled out in the bible: Hatred of people, worship with snake handling, non-use of medicines or doctors, etc.

I am a fundamentalist. Just not the way the media chooses to define the word.