{"id":34211,"date":"2012-08-24T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_bronwen_maddox-mitt_romneys_weird_faith_should_be_an_election\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T18:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T18:00:03","slug":"london_times_bronwen_maddox-mitt_romneys_weird_faith_should_be_an_election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34211","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Bronwen Maddox&#8211;Mitt Romney\u2019s Weird faith should be an election issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney is getting too easy a ride over his Mormonism&#8230;.[but there are hard questions to be asked].<\/p>\n<p>The first is about the sheer weirdness of the founding beliefs and the sense in which he really embraces them. The second is the Church\u2019s long history of racism and sexism, as well as its censorious ideas about the terms on which poor people qualify for community help. The third, with the most immediate implications, is whether the Church\u2019s conviction that its members are direct descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and are now \u201cmembers of the House of Israel\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d as well as its belief that when a Mormon saviour one day arrives it may be in Washington \u201d\u201d would make him more likely to attack Iran over its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/opinion\/columnists\/bronwenmaddox\/article3514844.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney is getting too easy a ride over his Mormonism&#8230;.[but there are hard questions to be asked]. The first is about the sheer weirdness of the founding beliefs and the sense in which he really embraces them. The second<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34211\">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":[39,40,42,428,616,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-mormons","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34211","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=34211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}