{"id":1349,"date":"2009-01-26T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2009-01-25T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T23:41:40","slug":"christianity-the-left-and-those-most-disadvantaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Christianity, The Left, and those most disadvantaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re curious about what Jim Wallis, CEO of the Christian social justice organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/index.cfm?action=about_us.mission\" target=\"_blank\">Sojouners<\/a>, thinks about President Obama&#8217;s views on abortion, then take a look at the BeliefNet article, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/jim-walllis-supports-obamas-ab.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Walllis Supports Obama&#8217;s Abortion Approach<\/a><\/em>. An excerpt,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In breaking the symbolic cycle, President Obama showed respect for both sides in the historically polarized abortion debate, and called for both a new conversation and a new common ground. I hope that this important gesture signals the beginning of a new approach and a new path toward finding some real solutions to decrease the number of abortions in this country and around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take the roof off of this argument by substituting a couple of choice words into the original&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In breaking the symbolic cycle, President Obama showed respect for both sides in the historically polarized <strong><em>slavery<\/em><\/strong> debate, and called for both a new conversation and a new common ground. I hope that this important gesture signals the beginning of a new approach and a new path toward finding some real solutions to decrease the number of <em><strong>slaves<\/strong> <\/em>in this country and around the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you truly care about social justice, Mr. Wallis, then please call a spade a spade; but don&#8217;t patronize us with rhetoric which is illogical, at best, and immoral, at worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re curious about what Jim Wallis, CEO of the Christian social justice organization Sojouners, thinks about President Obama&#8217;s views on abortion, then take a look at the BeliefNet article, Jim Walllis Supports Obama&#8217;s Abortion Approach. An excerpt, In breaking the symbolic cycle, President Obama showed respect for both sides in the historically polarized abortion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,27,21,59],"tags":[1033,219,80,220],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-culture","category-democrats","category-liberal","category-rusty","tag-abortion","tag-jim-wallis","tag-obama","tag-sojourners"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}