{"id":861,"date":"2003-10-25T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2003-10-25T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/no-stopping-the-religious-right\/"},"modified":"2003-10-25T12:55:41","modified_gmt":"2003-10-25T19:55:41","slug":"no-stopping-the-religious-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-stopping-the-religious-right\/","title":{"rendered":"No stopping the Religious Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Victory in Florida Feeding Case Emboldens the Religious Right\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/24\/national\/24FLOR.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">Victory in Florida Feeding Case Emboldens the Religious Right<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Religious conservatives say<\/b> that with an arsenal of prayer vigils, Christian radio broadcasts and thousands of e-mail messages to Florida lawmakers, <b>they played a pivotal role<\/b> in the legislative battle this week over whether to feed a brain-damaged woman who has been kept alive artificially for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Now <b>some conservatives are hoping to use similar tactics<\/b> to help them challenge court rulings they opposed in other states. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The Republican Party wants to present itself as the pro-life, pro-family party,&#8221; Mr. Terry said. &#8221;This pro-life, pro-family governor could not afford to not intervene in some way.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Jeb] Bush is in his second and last term as governor, but many politicians believe <b>he may run for president in 2008<\/b>. In the meantime, he is the point man in Florida for his brother&#8217;s presidential campaign. And after 2000, when George Bush carried Florida by only 537 votes, the Republicans are doing everything they can to ensure a decisive victory next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory in Florida Feeding Case Emboldens the Religious Right Religious conservatives say that with an arsenal of prayer vigils, Christian radio broadcasts and thousands of e-mail messages to Florida lawmakers, they played a pivotal role in the legislative battle this week over whether to feed a brain-damaged woman who has been kept alive artificially for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-stopping-the-religious-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No stopping the Religious Right?<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}