{"id":33176,"date":"2012-06-22T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_doyle_mcmanus_romney_breaks_the_stained-glass_ceiling\/"},"modified":"2012-06-22T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:00:23","slug":"la_times_doyle_mcmanus_romney_breaks_the_stained-glass_ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33176","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Doyle McManus: Mitt Romney breaks the stained-glass ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Mitt Romney wins the presidential election this fall, he&#8217;ll have Harry Reid partly to thank.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican presidential nominee and the Senate Democratic leader don&#8217;t have much in common politically. But they&#8217;re both members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints \u201d\u201d that is, they&#8217;re both Mormons.<\/p>\n<p>So whenever officials of the LDS church are asked about the once-common concern that a Mormon president might take orders from Salt Lake City, they have a ready answer: Just look at Harry Reid. Only last month, Reid endorsed President Obama&#8217;s decision to support gay marriage, a position that conflicts with the church&#8217;s views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-mcmanus-column-mormonism-romney-20120621,0,1097832.column\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Mitt Romney wins the presidential election this fall, he&#8217;ll have Harry Reid partly to thank. The Republican presidential nominee and the Senate Democratic leader don&#8217;t have much in common politically. But they&#8217;re both members of the Church of Jesus<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33176\">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":[39,40,42,133,428,616,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-history","category-mormons","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33176","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=33176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}