{"id":1808,"date":"2005-10-13T01:47:13","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/her_religion\/"},"modified":"2005-10-13T01:47:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T05:47:13","slug":"her_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/her_religion\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Her Religion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That President Bush has resorted to <a title=\"Role of Religion Emerges as Issue\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/12\/AR2005101201381.html\">using religion as a selling point for his Supreme Court nominee<\/a> is a contemptible ploy which is rightly being denounced by many bloggers.<br \/>\nI like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2005_10_09.php#006741\">Josh Marshall&#8217;s take<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A year ago, in light of one of White House&#8217;s many wag-the-dog stunts, I noted &#8220;how truly important it is that we democratize the Middle East. Because once we have, some of them will be able to come back here and redemocratize us.&#8221;<br \/>\nPerhaps the same goes for ending theocracy over there. Sooner the better, so they can bring modernity to us too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/her_religion\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Her Religion&#8221;\"><p>That President Bush has resorted to using religion as a selling point for his Supreme Court nominee is a contemptible ploy which is rightly being denounced by many bloggers. I like Josh Marshall&#8217;s take: A year ago, in light of one of White House&#8217;s many wag-the-dog stunts, I noted &#8220;how truly important it is that [&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-1808","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\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}