{"id":6203,"date":"2011-07-17T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2011-07-19T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T07:59:57","slug":"which-american-politician-said-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6203","title":{"rendered":"Which American politician said this? (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThere  is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious  beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than  Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme  being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God\u2019s name on one\u2019s  behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing  throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom.  They are trying to force government leaders into following their  position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a  particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of  money or votes or both. I\u2019m frankly sick and tired of the political  preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to  be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they  think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to  dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a  legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who  thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll  call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every  step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all  Americans in the name of conservatism.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I leave you with this thought for a Sunday.  I&#8217;ll provide the answer on Tuesday.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God\u2019s name on one\u2019s behalf should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}