{"id":6669,"date":"2013-12-20T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:08:38","slug":"more-of-the-death-rattle-of-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/more-of-the-death-rattle-of-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"More of the death rattle of Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is conservatism cutting its own throat in religion as well as politics or is religion becoming as irrelevant as conservatism? Only the zeitgeist knows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/323932\/news\/pastor-defrocked-after-performing-gay-wedding.html\">Pastor defrocked after performing gay wedding for his son | ABQJournal Online<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/author\/admin\">Kathy Matheson \/ The Associated Press<\/a> | 9 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The United Methodist church defrocked a pastor from central Pennsylvania on Thursday for violating doctrine by officiating his son\u2019s gay marriage, leaving the minister shocked and upset that he could be punished for an \u201cact of love.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/323932\/news\/pastor-defrocked-after-performing-gay-wedding.html\">Pastor defrocked after performing gay wedding for his son | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is conservatism cutting its own throat in religion as well as politics or is religion becoming as irrelevant as conservatism? Only the zeitgeist knows. Pastor defrocked after performing gay wedding for his son | ABQJournal Online By Kathy Matheson \/ The Associated Press | 9 hours ago PHILADELPHIA \u2013 The United Methodist church defrocked a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/more-of-the-death-rattle-of-conservatism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More of the death rattle of Conservatism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","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=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}