{"id":11104,"date":"2012-10-12T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=11104"},"modified":"2015-01-22T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:16:57","slug":"a-quote-for-election-seasons-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/10\/a-quote-for-election-seasons-past-present-and-future.html","title":{"rendered":"A Quote for Election Seasons, Past, Present, and Future"},"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><blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is your duty to vote. To neglect to do so would be a culpable abdication of duty on your part. It is your duty to vote honestly; that is to say, for men worthy of your esteem and trust. It is your duty to vote wisely; that is to say, in such a way as not to waste your votes. It would be better to cast them for candidates who, although not giving complete satisfaction to all our legitimate demands, would lead us to expect from them a line of conduct useful to the country, rather than to keep your votes for others whose program would indeed be more perfect, but whose almost certain defeat might open the door <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Nx43AAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=The%20State%20and%20the%20Church&amp;pg=PA260#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">to the enemies of religion and of the social order<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialwelfarehistory.com\/people\/ryan-monsignor-john-a\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fr. John A Ryan, DD<\/a>, formerly the Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America, democracy of the dead (requiescat in pace)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cIt is your duty to vote. To neglect to do so would be a culpable abdication of duty on your part. It is your duty to vote honestly; that is to say, for men worthy of your esteem and trust. 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