{"id":11239,"date":"2009-02-13T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_obama_tries_to_balance_on_church_state_tightrope\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T16:33:28","slug":"ap_obama_tries_to_balance_on_church_state_tightrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11239","title":{"rendered":"AP: Obama tries to &#39;balance&#39; on church-state tightrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama, signaling early in his administration that religion belongs in the public discourse, has promised to open a big tent to voices from across the spectrum of belief without crossing boundaries separating church and state.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat&#8217;s inaugural pomp was steeped in prayer, and one of his first proclamations included a shout out to &#8220;an awesome God.&#8221; Last week, Obama used the platform of the National Prayer Breakfast to unveil a new-look White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that features a team of policy advisers from both religious and secular social service circles. Most are ideological allies, but not all.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether such moves will amount to symbolic window dressing or progress finding common ground on moral issues without stepping on traditional culture-war land mines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-02-12-obama-church-state_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama, signaling early in his administration that religion belongs in the public discourse, has promised to open a big tent to voices from across the spectrum of belief without crossing boundaries separating church and state. The Democrat&#8217;s inaugural<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11239\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,579,114,616,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-churchstate-matters","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}