{"id":55584,"date":"2014-10-29T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=55584"},"modified":"2014-12-28T20:43:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:43:58","slug":"the-zealously-pro-abort-politician-prolife-christian-conservatives-staunchly-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/10\/the-zealously-pro-abort-politician-prolife-christian-conservatives-staunchly-support.html","title":{"rendered":"The Zealously Pro-Abort Politician &#8220;Prolife&#8221; Christian Conservatives Staunchly Support"},"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>The Dems may have soured on Obama, but there is still one ardently pro-abortion politician that Americans love and support without question. Curiously, he is, if anything more intensely and unquestioningly supported by \u201cprolife\u201d conservative Christians than by the left. Indeed, for many \u201cprolife\u201d Christian conservatives, to question this zealously pro-abortion politician is like questioning the will of God himself. His name: <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/dispatches\/2014\/01\/13\/israel-abortion-and-the-christian-right\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aleteia.org%2Fen%2Fworld%2Farticle%2Fare-american-taxpayers-underwriting-israeli-abortions-6099060121403392&amp;h=wAQGOp6Oy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">whose administration enacted some of the most fanatically pro-abortion laws on the planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine conservative prolife Christians regularly declaring \u201cWe must stand with President Obama as never before!\u201d and you get something of the disconnect.  Only Obama has never enacted abortion policies as radical as Israel\u2019s under Netanyahu.  And with our tax monies, we are helping to subsidize them, all while Christian conservatives have been almost entirely silent, because many of them hold to a theology of \u201cTouch not God\u2019s Anointed\u201d when it comes to Israel.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dems may have soured on Obama, but there is still one ardently pro-abortion politician that Americans love and support without question. Curiously, he is, if anything more intensely and unquestioningly supported by \u201cprolife\u201d conservative Christians than by the left. Indeed, for many \u201cprolife\u201d Christian conservatives, to question this zealously pro-abortion politician is like questioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-55584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-there-is-not-dogma-of-the-immaculate-conception-of-the-state-of-israel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Zealously Pro-Abort Politician &quot;Prolife&quot; Christian Conservatives Staunchly Support<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Dems may have soured on Obama, but there is still one ardently pro-abortion politician that Americans love and support without question. 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