{"id":3369,"date":"2004-07-31T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T10:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2004-07-31T10:36:46","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T10:36:46","slug":"no-more-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"NO MORE SLACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been ignoring Kyle Williams&#8217; rants because, heck, he&#8217;s only a kid.  <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39731\">Today<\/a>, though, he went a bit too far, and I want to respond.  Besides, he gets paid for his opinions; he&#8217;ll need to develop some thick skin if he&#8217;s going to run with the big dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The object of his latest is that the Dems were only faking it and the GOP is the <i>real<\/i> party of <i>true<\/i> family values.  Zzzzzzz!  No, my disagreement is with his close:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s really long-standing cultural thing, but American, evangelical Christianity has aligned itself with conservative and Republican culture. These liberals like Howard Dean and John Kerry are attempting to take a piece of the Christian community vote, but it won&#8217;t be easy \u2013 and it probably won&#8217;t happen in this election cycle. Christianity and conservative politics are still very much intertwined for many people. <b>Moreover, with leaders like Dr. James Dobson and ubiquitous movements like home-schooling, conservatives are going to have a market on the Christian community for a while.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apart from the confused phraseology, Williams makes the common error of assuming that homeschooling=conservative=evangelical Christian.  Not so.  Yes, there are quite a few, but there are <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2001\/Homeschool\/reasons.asp\">probably more<\/a> home educators who homeschool for secular reasons and would not self-identify as conservative or evangelical.  In fact, I&#8217;d bet that those now five-year-old data are out-of-date and that an even higher percentage of home educators are homeschooling for secular reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been ignoring Kyle Williams&#8217; rants because, heck, he&#8217;s only a kid. Today, though, he went a bit too far, and I want to respond. Besides, he gets paid for his opinions; he&#8217;ll need to develop some thick skin if he&#8217;s going to run with the big dogs. The object of his latest is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}