{"id":12026,"date":"2009-04-01T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_poll_us_catholics_lean_left_on_social_issues\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:20:00","slug":"rns_poll_us_catholics_lean_left_on_social_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12026","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Poll: U.S. Catholics lean left on social issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Catholics are more liberal than the general population on social issues like divorce and homosexuality, despite the Catholic Church&#8217;s longstanding conservatism on both issues, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>Catholics are more likely than non-Catholics to say that homosexual relations, divorce, and heterosexual sex outside wedlock are morally acceptable, according to an analysis by Gallup pollsters released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-03-31-catholics-liberal_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Catholics are more liberal than the general population on social issues like divorce and homosexuality, despite the Catholic Church&#8217;s longstanding conservatism on both issues, according to a new survey. Catholics are more likely than non-Catholics to say that homosexual<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12026\">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":[39,50,42,209,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026","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=12026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}