{"id":294,"date":"2008-09-30T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T02:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:52:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:52:30","slug":"an-evangelical-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/30\/an-evangelical-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"An Evangelical for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many in this country, I have been troubled by the religious right for quite a long time.  As a person who sees many shades of gray, I am troubled by the intolerance and hatred preached by so many on the religious right.  Senator McCain&#8217;s selection of Sarah Palin scared me badly and I set out to find some answers.  I am not a conventionally religious person, so I had to overcome my apprehensions about the brands of Christianity out there.  Offline discussions with a fellow blogger encouraged me to explore this sensitive topic and I have made some interesting discoveries.  From a site which explores <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\/\">Christian Dominionism<\/a> to a site which explores more moderate positions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\">Religion Dispatches<\/a>, I have come to a better understanding of the issues which have been brought up by the Governor of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier post on this blog (<a href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/similarities\/\">Similarities?<\/a>), one of the videos showed the crowd reaction at a McCain\/Palin rally in Colorado Springs.  The video below is also from a rally in Colorado Springs and it gives me hope that there is a future for rational discourse over topics of concern to all Americans.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OGkn1K_IQXU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01&#038;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OGkn1K_IQXU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01&#038;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many in this country, I have been troubled by the religious right for quite a long time. As a person who sees many shades of gray, I am troubled by the intolerance and hatred preached by so many on <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/30\/an-evangelical-for-obama\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}