{"id":2562,"date":"2008-09-17T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/09\/17\/catholic-vote-supression\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T13:13:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:13:24","slug":"catholic-vote-supression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/09\/catholic-vote-supression\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Vote Supression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"332\" align=\"middle\" width=\"517\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" id=\"cv_homepage_theater\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/catholicvote.com\/cv_homepage_theater_live.swf\"\/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"\/><param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\"\/><param name=\"PLAY\" value=\"false\" \/><embed height=\"332\" align=\"middle\" width=\"517\" wmode=\"transparent\" src=\"http:\/\/catholicvote.com\/cv_homepage_theater_live.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"cv_homepage_theater\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" play=\"false\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The above video put out by CatholicVote.com has been seen on many blogs and it was done by the wonderful Grassroots Films for Fidelis which runs the site.  I knew when I first saw it that progressive Catholics would be quite upset about it.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic blogs such as Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex and Bettnet and no doubt others have received the same &#8220;comment&#8221; by someone named Kathy that includes the following.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">If you forward this video or link to the website in your official capacity you may be in violation of IRS regulations and Church policy. You will also be distributing materials that contradict Church teaching.<\/p>\n<p>It then goes on to say that their are &#8220;other intrinsic evils&#8221; involved this campaign season such as racism (I didn&#8217;t know anyone was running on a pro-racism platform).  Ironic since I thought that lying and making false claims was also evil, though maybe the person is just woefully ignorant about blogs and the IRS along with Church teaching.<\/p>\n<p>David at C-L-S <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmos-liturgy-sex.com\/2008\/09\/17\/c-l-s-endangering-the-churchs-tax-exempt-status\/\">does a good refutation<\/a> of the claims made in the &#8220;comment&#8221; which are typical progressive boilerplate for why you should vote for Obama. Dom at Bettnet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettnet.com\/blog\/index.php\/weblog\/liberal_catholics_afraid_youll_vote_your_catholic_conscience\/\">also has his own comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above video put out by CatholicVote.com has been seen on many blogs and it was done by the wonderful Grassroots Films for Fidelis which runs the site. I knew&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","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=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}