{"id":14859,"date":"2014-10-15T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:03:14","slug":"write-in-blessed-mother-teresa-for-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2014\/10\/write-in-blessed-mother-teresa-for-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Write in Blessed Mother Teresa for this election"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 The leader of Rhode Island\u2019s Catholics suggests voters could write in Mother Teresa or sit out the Nov. 4 election because of a field of candidates he says isn\u2019t \u201cterribly promising\u201d on the abortion issue.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Thomas Tobin says in The Rhode Island Catholic diocesan newspaper that writing in Mother Teresa in protest would send a signal that some voters want an anti-abortion candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Tobin recently took aim at Democratic gubernatorial nominee Gina Raimondo (ray-MAHN\u2019-doh), who is Catholic, after she won the endorsement of Planned Parenthood and spoke in favor of reproductive rights. Republican nominee Allan Fung also supports abortion rights.<\/p>\n<p>Tobin says it\u2019s a \u201cpathetic spectacle\u201d when Catholic candidates \u201cchoose\u201d Planned Parenthood over the church.<\/p>\n<p>He says voters don\u2019t necessarily need to vote for every office or at all. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2014\/10\/15\/tobin-says-voters-could-write-in-mother-teresa\/?s_campaign=crux:rss\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the runup to the 2008 election I proposed voting for two Doctors of the Church instead in this parody video.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/deK2FCBhrGU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/deK2FCBhrGU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 The leader of Rhode Island\u2019s Catholics suggests voters could write in Mother Teresa or sit out the Nov. 4 election because of a field of candidates he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14860,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions\/14860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}