{"id":2779,"date":"2012-02-08T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/obama-administration-offers-deal-with-the-devil.html"},"modified":"2012-02-08T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:55:00","slug":"obama-administration-offers-deal-with-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/obama-administration-offers-deal-with-the-devil.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama administration offers deal with the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>And Michael Sean Winters will have none of it.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/distinctly-catholic\/compromise-not-so-fast\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Good for him<\/a>.\u00a0 No hardcore right-wing fanatic, Mr. Winters sees the writing on the wall.\u00a0 Any notion of \u2018compromise\u2019 is nothing other than a slap in the face to the First Amendment.\u00a0 It\u2019s saying \u2018we won\u2019t charge you money when we demand you compromise your deeply held religious beliefs, but we will demand you compromise your deeply held religious beliefs.\u2019\u00a0 Hopefully folks are waking up to the lie that was post-Christian liberalism.\u00a0 Notions of tolerance, diversity, everyone living in harmony and peace, respecting each other\u2019s diverse opinions, was a lie.\u00a0 Either stupidity, naivete, or a boldface lie.\u00a0 So good for Mr. Winters, and good for the growing outcry against this heavy handed, flagrant crushing of the Constitutional rights guaranteed by our founding documents.\u00a0 And shame on those, including Catholics!, who are either slaves to party loyalty, their own libidos, or the tired and demonstrably false notion of the promises that belonged to that which once called itself Liberalism.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Michael Sean Winters will have none of it.\u00a0 Good for him.\u00a0 No hardcore right-wing fanatic, Mr. Winters sees the writing on the wall.\u00a0 Any notion of \u2018compromise\u2019 is nothing other than a slap in the face to the First Amendment.\u00a0 It\u2019s saying \u2018we won\u2019t charge you money when we demand you compromise your deeply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama administration offers deal with the Devil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And Michael Sean Winters will have none of it.&nbsp; 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