{"id":2150,"date":"2007-04-30T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/church-and-state\/"},"modified":"2007-04-30T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:18:03","slug":"church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/church-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Church and State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/29\/AR2007042901270.html?referrer=email\">Did Justices&#8217; Catholicism Play Part in Abortion Ruling?<\/a> By Robert Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Is it significant that the five Supreme Court justices who voted to uphold the federal ban on a controversial abortion procedure also happen to be the court&#8217;s Roman Catholics? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[On the other hand,] last week, four of the five Catholics were in the court&#8217;s minority in voting to uphold death sentences in three cases from Texas. Capital punishment is another issue to which the church is opposed, although it hasn&#8217;t held the same political currency as abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Justices&#8217; Catholicism Play Part in Abortion Ruling? By Robert Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer Is it significant that the five Supreme Court justices who voted to uphold the federal ban on a controversial abortion procedure also happen to be the court&#8217;s Roman Catholics? &#8230; [On the other hand,] last week, four of the five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/church-and-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Church and State<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}