{"id":34679,"date":"2012-09-20T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nuns_become_soldiers_in_the_battle_for_the_white_house\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:00:23","slug":"nuns_become_soldiers_in_the_battle_for_the_white_house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34679","title":{"rendered":"(Detroit Free Press) Nuns become soldiers in the battle for the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Nov. 6 election looms, &#8230;nuns have come to represent the divide among American Catholics, both in the pews and in the voting booth. Both Obama and Romney are battling for the Catholic vote, a crucial slice of the electorate that represents about 1 out of 4 voters nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Obama campaign is going after Catholics who love nuns, who are social justice Catholics, who are concerned about the poor,&#8221; said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Georgetown University Jesuit priest and Catholic commentator, referring to Campbell&#8217;s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are targeting Catholics who are anti-abortion rights, anti-gay marriage and more conservative, said Reese, so nuns dressed in old-fashioned habits convey those values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2012-09-09\/nuns-election-politics\/57706952\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to at KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Nov. 6 election looms, &#8230;nuns have come to represent the divide among American Catholics, both in the pews and in the voting booth. Both Obama and Romney are battling for the Catholic vote, a crucial slice of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34679\">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":[39,40,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34679","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=34679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}