When the pope is happy and the guys responsible for the debacle in Iraq are upset, I take that as a win.<\/a> My rule of thumb for nearly anything beyond abortion and euthanasia and the other three non-negotiables is that, with anything strongly approved or condemned by the right, you will never go wrong heading in the exact opposite direction. Movement conservatism has been so wrong about so much so many times for so long that it is folly to trust it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the pope is happy and the guys responsible for the debacle in Iraq are upset, I take that as a win. My rule of thumb for nearly anything beyond abortion and euthanasia and the other three non-negotiables is that, with anything strongly approved or condemned by the right, you will never go wrong heading […]<\/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":[374,551,691],"class_list":["post-92196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pope-francis","tag-the-conservative-anti-charism-of-discernment","tag-war-and-peace"],"yoast_head":"\n
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