{"id":5714,"date":"2011-04-10T22:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T22:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2011-04-10T22:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T22:57:59","slug":"fiscal-priorities-never-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/fiscal-priorities-never-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiscal priorities, never mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Republicans may have been willing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/weigel\/archive\/2011\/04\/09\/the-shutdown-wrap-boehner-wins-austerity-wins-and-the-social-conservatives-go-home-with-a-participant-trophy.aspx\">sell social conservatives down the river<\/a>, but not so the Republican party of Tennessee. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/creationism-gains-ground-in-tennessee\">Creationism Gains Ground in Tennessee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tennessee House Bill 368, the creationist friendly legislation that we have previously covered on FrumForum, has passed through of the Tennessee House on a vote of 70-23. The Senate is expected to take up the bill for a vote on April 20th.<\/p>\n<p>As many observers had feared, the bill passed successfully on a near-party line vote. 8 Democrats joined with 62.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That being said, I tend to be of the opinion that a <b>human nature and evolution friendly <i>Zeitgeist<\/i><\/b> can reinforce and add vigor to some of the truths of social conservatism. Alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Republicans may have been willing to sell social conservatives down the river, but not so the Republican party of Tennessee. Creationism Gains Ground in Tennessee: Tennessee House Bill 368, the creationist friendly legislation that we have previously covered on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/fiscal-priorities-never-mind\/\">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":[1],"tags":[121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714"}],"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=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}