{"id":432,"date":"2024-11-17T04:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T04:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/why-catholics-voted-for-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T04:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T04:55:29","slug":"why-catholics-voted-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/why-catholics-voted-for-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Catholics Voted for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A very good <em>First Things<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2024\/11\/why-catholics-voted-for-trump\">article<\/a> by Mary Eberstadt. I have only one comment. She reports, &quot;The nation\u2019s Catholic voters split 56 to 41 in favor of Donald Trump.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">41 %&#0160; against?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Why such a large percentage? Are they &#39;devout Catholics&#39; in the style of Joe Dementia and Nancy the Shredder?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The Democrat Party, besides being anti-democratic, is anti-liberty, and in particular <em>anti-religious liberty<\/em>. If you haven&#39;t noticed that yet, then you are in need of a proctologist who specializes in self-induced head injuries. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Would you like to join my old friend Joe in his catacomb? Or perhaps you are eager for martyrdom.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very good First Things article by Mary Eberstadt. I have only one comment. She reports, &quot;The nation\u2019s Catholic voters split 56 to 41 in favor of Donald Trump.&quot; 41 %&#0160; against? Why such a large percentage? Are they &#39;devout Catholics&#39; in the style of Joe Dementia and Nancy the Shredder? The Democrat Party, besides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/17\/why-catholics-voted-for-trump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Catholics Voted for Trump&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-religious-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}