{"id":7573,"date":"2006-06-02T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2006-06-02T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T14:49:31","slug":"letting-god-know-who-to-vote-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/letting-god-know-who-to-vote-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting God know who to vote for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard about awkward combinations of religion and politics, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/story\/422914p-356917c.html\">this is ridiculous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [tag]Republican[\/tag] state convention in Hempstead, L.I., opened, as many do, with a prayer. But the [tag]invocation[\/tag] from Msgr. [tag]Jim Lisante[\/tag], a Long Island pastor and Fox News commentator, cut right to the chase.<\/p>\n<p>Lisante opened with a call to Republicans &#8220;to remember to love each other&#8221; &#8211; and to supporters of Bill Weld and John Faso not to &#8220;hate the other guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because &#8220;the other guy, whoever he is, is still better than [tag]Eliot Spitzer[\/tag].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Rev. Fox News delivered a <i>[tag]prayer[\/tag]<\/i> about the Republican being better than the Democrat? I&#8217;m no theologian, but I&#8217;m not sure what the scriptural defense is for this.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, it&#8217;s not [tag]secular[\/tag] liberals stripping [tag]religion[\/tag] of its spiritual significance, it&#8217;s conservative Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard about awkward combinations of religion and politics, but this is ridiculous. The [tag]Republican[\/tag] state convention in Hempstead, L.I., opened, as many do, with a prayer. But the [tag]invocation[\/tag] from Msgr. [tag]Jim Lisante[\/tag], a Long Island pastor and Fox News commentator, cut right to the chase. Lisante opened with a call to Republicans &#8220;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}