{"id":1450,"date":"2009-09-22T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T18:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2009-09-22T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T18:48:48","slug":"why-take-them-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/why-take-them-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Why take them seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s why it’s really hard to take the religious right seriously.<\/p>\n

“I don’t believe in global warming,” said conservative activist Kim Simac, a horse trainer and mother of nine from Wisconsin who also believes that the teaching of creationism and prayer need to be brought back to public schools.<\/p>\n

(via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and…<\/p>\n

One delegate, Sue Phelps, drew comparisons between Barack Obama, Fidel Castro and Adolf Hitler – “they were good orators too” – and said the president’s nationality and religion were “unanswered questions”.<\/p>\n

(via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and…<\/p>\n

“Today in America, far too many young people enter adulthood unprepared for college, career, and life,” said Allan Golston, president of The Gates Foundation’s U.S. Program. [Drew] Dickens agrees and believes that “part of the problem is that we have removed prayer and the Ten Commandments from our schools and curriculum.”<\/p>\n

(via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could go on. When people are that vocal, yet that oblivious to facts, that ignorant of the Constitution, and that eager to force their religious beliefs on others, they’ve really got no room to complain when they are ignored or mocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s why it’s really hard to take the religious right seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[217,293,332,378,410,581,638,684,719,783],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-constitution","tag-education","tag-first-ammendment","tag-global-warming","tag-hitler","tag-obama","tag-prayer","tag-religious-right","tag-school","tag-ten-commandments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}