{"id":8124,"date":"2008-08-27T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_is_voting_a_christian_rite_or_right\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:24:12","slug":"rns_is_voting_a_christian_rite_or_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8124","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Is voting a Christian rite or right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Ford, 29, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., will be spending Election Day at home this year.<\/p>\n<p>A self-identified evangelical Christian, Ford cast his vote for President Bush in 2004, but says he and his wife plan to stay away from the polls Nov. 4, rather than vote for Sen. John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to be able to vote for anyone who doesn&#8217;t take a 100-percent stand against abortion,&#8221; said Ford, &#8220;so right now I&#8217;m in a dilemma.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ford is concerned by McCain&#8217;s support for embryonic stem cell research, as well as reports that the Arizona senator may choose a running mate who supports abortion rights, such as Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he&#8217;s OK with that, then I&#8217;m not,&#8221; Ford said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=16349\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Ford, 29, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., will be spending Election Day at home this year. A self-identified evangelical Christian, Ford cast his vote for President Bush in 2004, but says he and his wife plan to stay away from the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8124\">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":[39,40,151,108,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","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=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}