{"id":24063,"date":"2011-01-18T19:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_poll_americans_of_all_faiths_see_a_civility_problem_in_u-s-_politics\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T19:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T19:01:53","slug":"rns_poll_americans_of_all_faiths_see_a_civility_problem_in_u-s-_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24063","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Poll: Americans of All Faiths See a Civility Problem in U.S. Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether they rally behind Fox News\u2019 Glenn Beck to \u201cRestore Honor\u201d\u009d or Comedy Central\u2019s Jon Stewart to \u201cRestore Sanity,\u201d\u009d Americans agree on one thing: our political system has a civility problem.<\/p>\n<p>Four out of five Americans, regardless of party or religious affiliation, think the lack of respectful discourse in our political system is a serious problem, according to a PRRI\/RNS Religion News Poll released Thursday (Nov. 11).<\/p>\n<p>The findings echo sentiments expressed by a range of religious leaders, including Richard J. Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary and author of \u201cUncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World,\u201d\u009d and Rabbi Steve Gutow, president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/poll-americans-of-all-faiths-see-a-civility-problem-in-u-s-politics-cms-17311\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether they rally behind Fox News\u2019 Glenn Beck to \u201cRestore Honor\u201d\u009d or Comedy Central\u2019s Jon Stewart to \u201cRestore Sanity,\u201d\u009d Americans agree on one thing: our political system has a civility problem. Four out of five Americans, regardless of party or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24063\">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":[39,40,50,209,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063","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=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}