{"id":8216,"date":"2013-01-12T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8216"},"modified":"2013-01-12T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T19:03:11","slug":"watching-the-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/watching-the-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/usccb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"usccb\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-8217\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/337473\/cmon-joe-charles-c-w-cooke\">Joe Biden:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYesterday we finished up in this room with \u2026 17 members of the faith community \u2026 [I]n all the years I have been doing this, the first time there has been an overwhelming consensus, from the evangelical groups nationwide, and particularly those in rural areas, to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to the National Conference of Churches, the Muslim community, because this does have a significant moral dimension\u2014how we make the American community safer and how we go about it.\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a nauseating little snippet on a number of counts, but let\u2019s focus for a moment on the participation of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. It will be very interesting indeed to hear what they have to say. After all, we have heard a lot from them recently about the (supposed) threat to their First Amendment rights from Obamacare\u2019s contraception mandate. <\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope that they are just as assiduous in their defense of the Second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden: \u201cYesterday we finished up in this room with \u2026 17 members of the faith community \u2026 [I]n all the years I have been doing this, the first time there has been an overwhelming consensus, from the evangelical groups &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/watching-the-bishops\/\">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":[308,984,606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216"}],"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=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}