{"id":23641,"date":"2011-11-11T16:27:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T23:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/retroactive-communal-piety-and-partisan-politics.html"},"modified":"2011-11-11T21:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T04:37:58","slug":"retroactive-communal-piety-and-partisan-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/retroactive-communal-piety-and-partisan-politics.html","title":{"rendered":"Retroactive Communal Piety and Partisan Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really? The Right thinks that what we need at the already-constructed World War II memorial on the National Mall is an engraved prayer? I mean, at least they chose something from the period (and by FDR, usually a target for their ire), but adding something <em>after the fact<\/em> seems unnecessary &#8212; especially since it&#8217;s being used primarily as a club to attack the Obama Administration as &#8220;anti-Christian&#8221; and &#8220;unpatriotic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard any WWII vets complaining that the memorial doesn&#8217;t include enough prayer, have you? #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.org\/blogs\/wall-of-separation\/veterans-day-villainy-fdr-prayer-bill-is-shameless-partisan-stunt\">Veterans Day Villainy: FDR Prayer Bill Is Shameless Partisan Stunt | Americans United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really? The Right thinks that what we need at the already-constructed World War II memorial on the National Mall is an engraved prayer? I mean, at least they chose something from the period (and by FDR, usually a target for their ire), but adding something after the fact seems unnecessary &#8212; especially since it&#8217;s being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/retroactive-communal-piety-and-partisan-politics.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retroactive Communal Piety and Partisan Politics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,27],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-religion","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23987,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/22\/happy-franksgiving.html","url_meta":{"origin":23641,"position":0},"title":"Happy Franksgiving!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Nov-11 10:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I kind of wish we'd stuck with that plan. It would make Christmas shopping and #NaNoWriMo a lot easier. #ddtb Embedded Link Happy Franksgiving: Why FDR Rescheduled Turkey Day - Mental Floss Why FDR Rescheduled Thanksgiving Matt Soniak tells the story of Franksgiving.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":23641,"position":1},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27106,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/domestic-violence-and-partisan-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":23641,"position":2},"title":"Domestic violence and partisan politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Mar-12 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I'm pretty sure that the Democratic leadership is engaging in some politics over the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, the bill as described, including its expansions, seems a fine one to me. 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Anyway, if you've ever wanted to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25266,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/public-prayer-as-a-way-of-paying-off-a-bet.html","url_meta":{"origin":23641,"position":5},"title":"Public prayer as a way of paying off a bet","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jan-12 1:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Does it strike anyone else as odd that, as a result of a \"good-natured bet\" that a public official (the mayor of Pittsburgh) is doing a \"Tebow\" in public? 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