{"id":2454,"date":"2012-01-16T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/re-examining-the-rhetoric-of-the-republican-party.html"},"modified":"2012-01-16T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T23:55:00","slug":"re-examining-the-rhetoric-of-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/re-examining-the-rhetoric-of-the-republican-party.html","title":{"rendered":"Re-examining the rhetoric of the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
In a recent campaign ad<\/a>, Republican candidate Rick Perry condemned \u201cObama\u2019s war on religion\u201d by asking why \u201cgays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can\u2019t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.\u201d<\/div>\n
In a\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0last March, Newt Gingrich proposed a deep and profound political change in response to the ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that the \u201cunder God\u201d in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional. He likened himself to Abraham Lincoln in\u00a0Dred Scott v. Sanford<\/em>\u00a0and volunteered to put America back in touch with her founding roots, announcing his candidacy two months later. To put America back on track, Gingrich will free slaves bound by rather different chains:\u00a0anti-Christian bigotry<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Republicans use of religious rhetoric to garner votes is not uncommon. Democrats, however, handle such rhetoric with much prudence, using religion only in carefully planned situations. For conservatives, more so than liberals, religious rhetoric often means Christian rhetoric.<\/div>\n
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