{"id":5556,"date":"2011-03-13T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2011-03-13T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T16:54:57","slug":"gov-vs-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/gov-vs-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. vs. God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Blake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Blake-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Blake\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Blake-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Blake.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Apparently Wisconsin&#8217;s governor Walker is taking on the Almighty Himself. Who knew?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/dispatches\/danielschultz\/4372\/wisconsin_religious_voices_witness_against_scott_walker\/\">&#8220;Pastor Dan&#8221;, <\/a>that\u2019s who:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Below the fold is the text of a joint press release from Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and Madison Urban Ministry, two Wisconsin religious groups who have been active in leading protests against Gov. Scott Walker&#8217;s agenda. I am mostly passing this on to note that there are religious voices involved in this fight. I have yet to see any faith groups take up Walker&#8217;s side, but perhaps I&#8217;ve just missed them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026while I think what we have here is bang-up, I do believe that it could be even stronger by reframing it as an issue of justice, rather than morality. The latter is a very weak frame that creates a &#8220;dog bites man&#8221; storyline. The former, especially if it&#8217;s pitched in terms of God coming down on the side of the working people (see: Exodus), is much stronger and creates the opposite storyline. When was the last time any religious leaders on the left had the chutzpah to tell a sitting governor he was going up against God herself?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2018God herself\u2019 is a classic\u2014both in terms of gender and lower case h\u2014of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Pastor Dan!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Wisconsin&#8217;s governor Walker is taking on the Almighty Himself. Who knew? &#8220;Pastor Dan&#8221;, that\u2019s who: Below the fold is the text of a joint press release from Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and Madison Urban Ministry, two Wisconsin religious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/gov-vs-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[403,605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556"}],"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=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}