{"id":5206,"date":"2003-10-15T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T23:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2003-10-15T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T23:08:25","slug":"religion_and_po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/15\/religion_and_po.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting analysis of various <a title=\"How Prayers Poll - Debunking myths about the religious right. By Steven\u00a0Waldman\" href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2089641\/\">myths about religion and politics<\/a>, just in time for the presidential season.  There&#8217;s good news and bad news for both Dems and Republicans here &#8212; but, in some cases, their own extremists stand in the way of taking advantage of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting analysis of various myths about religion and politics, just in time for the presidential season. 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At CPAC (the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference), Ted Cruz said in his speech, \"The Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson and Republicans are happily the party of Homer, Bart, Maggie and Marge.\" So the Dems are a mature, intelligent, agency-filled, loving girl, and the GOP are\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\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ted-Cruz.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":19085,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/02\/unblogged-bits-tue-2-nov-10-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":5206,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue.  2-Nov-10 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Nov-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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People sometimes decry identity politics -- \"I'm an X, so I vote for That Party\" or \"I'm a Z, so I only vote for other Zs or Z supporters,\" with\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\/09\/flag-thumprint-identity-politics.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":137411,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/05\/sex-and-politics.html","url_meta":{"origin":5206,"position":3},"title":"Sex and Politics","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Nov-18 8:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"A survey of Republicans and Democrats find that the former are much more likely to sexually fantasize about extra-marital activities -- infidelity, orgies, swinging, voyeurism -- than their counterparts. 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