{"id":3329,"date":"2009-11-16T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2009-11-16T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:38:44","slug":"creationism-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/creationism-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism & Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Razib\/David, in your follow-up post<\/a> on the subject of Sarah Palin and Creationism, you comment as follows:<\/p>\n

It strikes me that those on the Right & Republicans seem more divided and emotive on this issue than abortion. More specifically, libertarian and secular Rightists seem more likely to express their displeasure about Creationism than abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And you then give some good reasons why this might be the case. There are at least two more, I think, that could be added to\u00a0your list. The first is that there are a\u00a0decent number of\u00a0strong arguments available to those on either side of the abortion debate. It’s\u00a0possible for people to\u00a0maintain their\u00a0intellectual respect for the viewpoint of those with whom they\u00a0disagree on this issue. By contrast, if there are any good arguments\u00a0for\u00a0Creationism, I have yet to hear them.\u00a0\u00a0That’s\u00a0why it’s so particularly\u00a0galling for those rightists still attached to the whole science-and-evidence thing that\u00a0a number of prominent Republicans\u00a0have chosen, if not\u00a0to go walking with the dinosaurs, at least to embrace “intelligent design”. So far as abortion is concerned, we should also remember that so long as Roe v Wade remains in force, most pro-choice Republicans (or Republican-inclined) may well decide that this is an issue that they can safely overlook when deciding that the largely pro-life GOP is the party for them. It’s interesting to speculate what would happen to the GOP\u00a0should Roe v Wade\u00a0be overturned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Razib\/David, in your follow-up post on the subject of Sarah Palin and Creationism, you comment as follows: It strikes me that those on the Right & Republicans seem more divided and emotive on this issue than abortion. More specifically, libertarian … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[55,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}