{"id":27103,"date":"2011-07-05T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-a_moral_budget\/"},"modified":"2011-07-05T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T19:40:03","slug":"religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-a_moral_budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27103","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;A Moral Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[BOB] ABERNETHY: But all the moral debate has not made compromise easy.<\/p>\n<p>[MICHAEL] GERSON: I think moral motivations in politics are very important. But when you claim that your own views somehow have a divine sanction, you\u2019ve cut off all political argument. This should be an argument about outcomes, what is really best for the justice and decency of a society. I think a limited government is important to that, and I think a government that provides some of the most basic needs for the most vulnerable people in society is important to that as well. That\u2019s where a lot of Americans are.<\/p>\n<p>ABERNETHY: Alan Simpson thinks his former colleagues will head off a national crisis and that their constituents will accept the need for sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>[ALAN] SIMPSON: I think there are a lot more heroes in Congress than we recognize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/july-1-2011\/a-moral-budget\/9084\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[BOB] ABERNETHY: But all the moral debate has not made compromise easy. [MICHAEL] GERSON: I think moral motivations in politics are very important. But when you claim that your own views somehow have a divine sanction, you\u2019ve cut off all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27103\">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":[39,40,670,595,592,149,168,617,675,616,151,667,108,618,673,599,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-senate","category-social-security","category-stock-market","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27103","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=27103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}