{"id":18199,"date":"2010-03-01T18:29:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scottish_episcopal_church_attacks_labour_party_of_faith_claims\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T18:29:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T18:29:36","slug":"scottish_episcopal_church_attacks_labour_party_of_faith_claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18199","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Episcopal Church attacks Labour &#39;party of faith&#39; claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Rev David Chillingworth accused the Scottish Secretary of doing a \u201cgrave disservice\u201d\u009d to religion by suggesting it could be \u201cshrink-wrapped\u201d\u009d to fit the manifesto of a political party.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after the leader of Scotland\u2019s Roman Catholics accused Labour of an \u201cunrelenting attack on family values\u201d\u009d and warned the Pope could give the party \u201chell\u201d\u009d on his state visit later this year.<\/p>\n<p>They were both responding to a speech last week in which Mr Murphy tried to woo religious voters by promising their concerns would be reflected in Labour\u2019s policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Secretary argued Labour was founded on the principles of Christian socialism and had led the trade union struggle for working class rights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/scotland\/7338733\/Scottish-Episcopal-Church-attacks-Labour-party-of-faith-claims.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Rev David Chillingworth accused the Scottish Secretary of doing a \u201cgrave disservice\u201d\u009d to religion by suggesting it could be \u201cshrink-wrapped\u201d\u009d to fit the manifesto of a political party. His comments came after the leader of Scotland\u2019s Roman Catholics<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18199\">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":[36,39,40,50,42,74,199,154,151,108,364,326,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-scotland","category-scottish-episcopal-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199","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=18199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}