In the mainstream media, “balance” means consideration of an absurd viewpoint as equal merely because it’s the opposite of a consensus view.  For example:

Sgt. Patrick Stewart […] of the Nevada Air National Guard was shot down in his Chinook helicopter [over Afghanistan] September 25, 2005. Ever since, his gravesite has been marked with a plain old rock and a few small American flags. His wife says that’s because the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs refused to recognize their religion and allow them to express their faith in a military cemetery.

The Stewarts practiced Wicca, a pre-Christian religion wrongly criticized as being associated with devil worship. […] Earlier this week, the VA announced that as part of a settlement of a lawsuit, it will allow 11 families to display the Wicca pentacle, a religious symbol whose five points represent earth, air, fire, water and spirit, at their gravesites. The pentacle will be provided by the military.
This case raises some interesting questions: Do you think it took too long for the military and the VA to agree to place the Wiccan pentacle on gravesites? Should service members and their families have complete control over which symbols are displayed on their gravesite? Or is it important for the VA to maintain some restrictions on religious symbols? (emphasis mine)

Call it assuming of me, but far as I’m concerned if you’re buried on a spot of land your kin implicitly own it until they say otherwise. Besides, you gave your life, isn’t that enough?  How sick are we as a nation that we’re imposing political correctness on people beyond the grave?