{"id":39585,"date":"2017-01-31T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=39585"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:06:22","slug":"mike-pence-muslim-immigrants-2015-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/01\/mike-pence-muslim-immigrants-2015-2017.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence on Muslim Immigrants, 2015-2017"},"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>None other than <a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/j-k-rowling-owned-mike-pence-with-one-biblical-tweet\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=22w&amp;utm_campaign=22W_jan31\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">J. K. Rowling<\/a> drew attention to this tweet from Mike Pence from back in 2015:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Mike Pence (@GovPenceIN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovPenceIN\/status\/674249808610066433\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">December 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She then added a Biblical quote, challenging his hypocrisy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/01\/img_0426.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39590 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/719\/2017\/01\/img_0426-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now he is saying nothing against the executive order. Mike Pence has sold his soul in the interest of power \u2013 but what power have you gained if you are the vice president and must keep your convictions quiet? That isn\u2019t really power. Pence is less powerful now than he was in 2015. I wonder if he realizes that.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None other than J. K. Rowling drew attention to this tweet from Mike Pence from back in 2015: Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional. \u2014 Governor Mike Pence (@GovPenceIN) December 8, 2015 She then added a Biblical quote, challenging his hypocrisy: And now he is saying nothing against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":39586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[5042,14550,7428,7813,13017,13035],"class_list":["post-39585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-immigrants","tag-j-k-rowling","tag-mike-pence","tag-muslim","tag-tweets","tag-twitter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike Pence on Muslim Immigrants, 2015-2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"None other than J. 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