{"id":2680,"date":"2011-10-24T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/churchs-pride-in-cain-outweighs-differences.html"},"modified":"2011-10-24T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T19:57:00","slug":"churchs-pride-in-cain-outweighs-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2011\/10\/churchs-pride-in-cain-outweighs-differences.html","title":{"rendered":"Church&#8217;s pride in Cain outweighs differences"},"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><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #999999;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 11px\">Nati Harnik, AP<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cxElementGraphic\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/georgia-politics-elections\/churchs-pride-in-cain-1208642.html?bigName=Nati+Harnik&amp;bigPhotog=Nati+Harnik&amp;bigCap=Republican+presidential+candidate+businessman+Herman+Cain+speaks+at+the+Iowa+Faith+and+Freedom+Coalition+presidential+candidate+forum%2c+in+Des+Moines%2c+Iowa.+Cain+is+an+associate+pastor+at+Antioch+Baptist+Church+North+in+Atlanta.&amp;bigDeclCap=&amp;bigCred=AP&amp;bigUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ajc.com%2fmultimedia%2fdynamic%2f01167%2fConservatives_Iowa_1167026c.jpg&amp;superSizeImage=y\" style=\"color: #004488;text-decoration: underline\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain speaks at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition presidential candidate forum, in Des Moines, Iowa. Cain is an associate pastor at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta.\" class=\"cxImageStoryLeft border666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/multimedia\/dynamic\/01167\/Conservatives_Iowa_1167026l.jpg\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;border-color: initial;border-left-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px;border-style: initial;border-top-width: 0px\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px\">Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain speaks at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition presidential candidate forum, in Des Moines, Iowa. Cain is an associate pastor at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta.<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Where it matters most \u2014 down in the soul \u2014 Herman Cain is one of them. Always will be.<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white;color: #333333;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">When he\u2019s home in Atlanta, he\u2019s among friends at Antioch Baptist Church North, where he\u2019s been a member for more than 30 years. Fellow members call him a good man, a brother in Christ, as solid as the very doors of the church.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">It\u2019s when he leaves town that some of that praise may get a little muted.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Cain, an Atlanta resident, is a Republican seeking the GOP nomination for president. He\u2019s also a black man who attends a church whose majority African-American congregation has traditionally supported Democratic politicians.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">For church members, Cain\u2019s run for office is a point of pride \u2014 chagrin, too. He\u2019s on a national stage, taking aim at President Barack Obama, who overwhelmingly carried the African-American vote in the 2008 election and still enjoys an 85 percent approval rating among blacks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.5;margin-bottom: 1em;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/georgia-politics-elections\/churchs-pride-in-cain-1208642.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"background-color: white\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"leftFloat\" id=\"cxLeftRail\" style=\"clear: both;float: left;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 20px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px;width: 205px\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">\n<div class=\"cxElementGraphic\" style=\"color: #333333;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #999999;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px\"><br><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nati Harnik, AP Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain speaks at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition presidential candidate forum, in Des Moines, Iowa. Cain is an associate pastor at Antioch Baptist Church North in Atlanta. Where it matters most \u2014 down in the soul \u2014 Herman Cain is one of them. Always will be. 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