{"id":942,"date":"2013-10-24T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=15043"},"modified":"2013-10-24T05:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T11:00:34","slug":"should-evangelical-leaders-tone-down-their-rhetoric-on-social-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2013\/10\/should-evangelical-leaders-tone-down-their-rhetoric-on-social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Evangelical Leaders Tone Down their Rhetoric on Social Issues?"},"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>Today\u2019s Buzz covers the Pope\u2019s reaction to Germany\u2019s \u201cBishop of Bling,\u201d the generational shift in evangelical 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