{"id":1982,"date":"2007-02-09T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2007-02-09T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:15:00","slug":"interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/interesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,251009,00.html\">Fox News this morning the John Edwards\/Blogger thing<\/a> and read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another Catholic group, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, issued a statement saying it was satisfied with Edwards&#8217; actions following the &#8220;religiously intolerant remarks.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We accept Senator Edwards&#8217; assurances that he too was offended by comments made by recently hired staffers and that religious intolerance has no place in his campaign,&#8221; said the group&#8217;s executive director, Alexia Kelley, who added that since roughly one-fourth of the U.S. population is Catholic, Edwards can&#8217;t take the religion&#8217;s members for granted.<br \/>\n&#8220;We hope this unfortunate incident will initiate a deeper conversation on the part of all presidential candidates regarding the broad range of issues and values of primary importance to the Catholic community, including the Iraq War, a concern for the poor, human life and dignity, the availability of health care, and a commitment to the common good,&#8221; Kelley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshea.blogspot.com\/2007_02_01_markshea_archive.html#117097772638102220\">Mark Shea had something to say about Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My reply:<br \/>\nAnything less than an immediate firing of these skirted Klansmen is a clear indication the Edwards is utterly unfit for the White House. Don&#8217;t be whores for this dirtbag. Stop making excuses and demand that he get rid of these clownettes.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;d like to tell Mr. Jones what you think of Edward lame excuse-making for these bigettes, click <a href=\"ajones@thecatholicalliance.org\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf you need the Spin vs. Substance Ammo to pound Mr. Jones in to facing reality, <a href=\"http:\/\/revolution-21.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/if-edwards-blog-bigots-had-called.html\">here it is.<\/a><br \/>\nMeanwhile, memorize the name: Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is the first organization of Catholics to prostitute their faith completely in this election cycle for the sake of blow-dried ambulance chaser. It profits a man nothing to gain the whole *world* and lose his own soul. But for *Edwards*?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Fox News this morning the John Edwards\/Blogger thing and read this: Another Catholic group, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, issued a statement saying it was satisfied with Edwards&#8217; actions following the &#8220;religiously intolerant remarks.&#8221; &#8220;We accept Senator Edwards&#8217; assurances that he too was offended by comments made by recently hired&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/interesting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Interesting&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}