{"id":8922,"date":"2013-12-07T00:32:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T00:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2013-12-07T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T00:32:27","slug":"santorum-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/santorum-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santorum-Well-Savanarola.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santorum-Well-Savanarola-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santorum (Well, Savanarola)\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santorum-Well-Savanarola-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santorum-Well-Savanarola.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/12\/rick-santorum-obamacare-nelson-mandela-100776.html#ixzz2mi9ax7Jb\">Politico:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As condolences and reflections followed the passing of Nelson Mandela, Rick Santorum linked the injustices the former South African president fought and Obamacare. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people\u2019s lives \u2014 and Obamacare is front and center in that,\u201d Santorum said Thursday on Fox News\u2019s \u201cThe O\u2019Reilly Factor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not quite the same, I feel. <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/12\/06\/yes-it-gets-worse\/\">notes<\/a> that Santorum, a politician who misses few opportunities to stress his piety, is \u201ca Catholic fighting against universal healthcare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s point, of course, is that the Roman Catholic church supports the principle  of universal healthcare (while reserving the right to opt out of the bits of which it disapproves). That doesn\u2019t mean that  devout Catholics cannot disagree with Obamacare, but it does makes the force of the language  used by Santorum come acriss as, well, striking\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico: As condolences and reflections followed the passing of Nelson Mandela, Rick Santorum linked the injustices the former South African president fought and Obamacare. \u201cHe was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/santorum-again\/\">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":[909,776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"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=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}