{"id":3612,"date":"2015-10-24T18:45:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2015-10-24T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:45:40","slug":"political-grandstanding-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/10\/24\/political-grandstanding-for-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Grandstanding for Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/article\/5455448\" target=\"_blank\">met with a handful of religious pilgrims<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pastor John Riggs and the Texoma Cowboy Church rode on horseback today to deliver this copy of the 10 Commandments <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DD99eW9Uok\">pic.twitter.com\/DD99eW9Uok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Governor Mary Fallin (@GovMaryFallin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovMaryFallin\/status\/657633030958256128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They had a <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/gallery\/6033188\/pictures\/3893617\" target=\"_blank\">little prayer service<\/a> and took a bunch of photos together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It breaks our heart to see where our country is headed and to see the removal of the law of God from our land and from our buildings,&#8221; said Pastor John Riggs of the Texoma Cowboy Church.<\/p>\n<p>We may safely assume that Pastor Riggs would take a totally different view if anyone else&#8217;s god(s) were being extolled on public property, and that Governor Fallin would never have personally greeted religious pilgrims from any faith other than her own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma&#8217;s Governor met with a handful of religious pilgrims yesterday: Pastor John Riggs and the Texoma Cowboy Church rode on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}