{"id":1153,"date":"2004-09-17T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/banning_the_bible\/"},"modified":"2004-09-17T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T23:05:08","slug":"banning_the_bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/banning_the_bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no.  The secret liberal plot <a title=\"GOP Mailing Warns Liberals Will Ban Bibles\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/Politics\/ap20040917_1688.html\">has been exposed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November.<br \/>\nThe literature shows a Bible with the word &#8220;BANNED&#8221; across it and a photo of a man, on his knees, placing a ring on the hand of another man with the word &#8220;ALLOWED.&#8221; The mailing tells West Virginians to &#8220;vote Republican to protect our families&#8221; and defeat the &#8220;liberal agenda.&#8221;<br \/>\nRepublican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said Friday that he wasn&#8217;t aware of the mailing, but said it could be the work of the RNC. &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if we were mailing voters on the issue of same-sex marriage,&#8221; Gillespie said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prohibiting Bibles?  What kind of delusional people come up with this kind of thing?  Do these so-called &#8220;Christians&#8221; think they have the moral standing to spread lies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/banning_the_bible\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Banning the Bible\"><p>Oh no. The secret liberal plot has been exposed: Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. The literature shows a Bible with the word &#8220;BANNED&#8221; across it and a photo of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}