{"id":5308,"date":"2011-02-02T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5308"},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:19:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T00:19:27","slug":"jon-huntsmans-great-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/jon-huntsmans-great-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Huntsman&#8217;s great joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2011\/02\/01\/jon-huntsman-s-2012-campaign-conundrum.html\">Jon Huntsman&#8217;s 2012 Campaign Conundrum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Huntsman was extremely reluctant to discuss his Mormon faith, perhaps recognizing the irreversible damage it did to Romney\u2019s 2008 effort among conservative Christians. He took pains to prove his ecumenical credentials, as it were, by pointing to the \u201crich philosophical traditions\u201d that led to his adoption of two daughters\u2014one from India, and another from China. He also mentioned that when he was in office, \u201cUtah\u2019s governor\u2019s mansion was probably the only one in the country\u201d to celebrate the Hindu holiday of Diwali.<\/p>\n<p>This hesitation aligns well with an interview he gave Fortune magazine last year, in which he said, \u201cI can\u2019t say I am overly religious. I get satisfaction from many different types of philosophies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Of course, Southern evangelicals may not be looking for a candidate with Hindu credentials,<\/b> I told Huntsman. But he insisted that issues like religion are ultimately \u201cjust campaign sideshows.\u201d In 2012, he said, voters will choose the president they believe can turn the economy around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Most<\/i> Americans <i>are<\/i> ecumenical. But of those who are not, a disproportionate number are concentrated among Republican primary voters. Many evangelical Protestants already view Mormonism as a &#8220;cult&#8221; because of its deviation into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/God_in_Mormonism\">henotheism<\/a>; expressing positive views of Hinduism will not help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Huntsman&#8217;s 2012 Campaign Conundrum: Huntsman was extremely reluctant to discuss his Mormon faith, perhaps recognizing the irreversible damage it did to Romney\u2019s 2008 effort among conservative Christians. He took pains to prove his ecumenical credentials, as it were, by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/jon-huntsmans-great-joke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}