{"id":11838,"date":"2010-02-16T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?p=11838"},"modified":"2010-02-16T09:27:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T14:27:36","slug":"surprising-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2010\/02\/16\/surprising-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Announcement"},"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>I have a shocking and surprising announcement to make: \u00a0Vox Nova has not seen and does not see itself as a tool for promotion of the Republican Party or the \u201cconservative values\u201d of both those within that party and those formerly affiliated with the Republican Party but who are disaffected by that party and still think the Democrats are worse. \u00a0From reading around the blogosphere, this seems to have been revelatory to some people. \u00a0Yes, we recognize that some of us (certainly not all) have violated the non-negotiable principle of only voting for Republicans and violated the divine sanction against supporting government, except when it enters immoral wars and tortures people, by supporting a health care bill that will force people who today receive abortion coverage from their employer\u2019s plan to explicitly pay for abortion coverage if they purchase private coverage through a government exchange. \u00a0For those that persevere with us and even bother to call themselves Catholic, we\u2019ll keep you in our prayers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a shocking and surprising announcement to make: \u00a0Vox Nova has not seen and does not see itself as a tool for 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