{"id":1299,"date":"2012-02-04T21:56:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.wordpress.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2012-02-04T21:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T21:56:59","slug":"christian-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Christian Democratic Party;"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I’ve been in touch with a representative from one of America’s newest political Parties, the Christian Democratic Party.\u00a0 Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia,\u00a0 their literature explains that:\u00a0 “Chrisitan democracy” is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy.\u00a0 In other words, in our current society that would look like a mix of conservative and liberal philosophy.\u00a0 From the “conservative” side, for instance, they are against abortion and gay marriage.\u00a0 Yet, in what would seem “liberal” to many, they are strong on social justice and environmental stewardship.\u00a0 A quote:\u00a0 “Regardless of whether one believes in global warming or not, we maintain that caring for the environment is a great personal virtue… We wholeheartedly support environmentally friendly policies.”\u00a0 The Party’s platform\u00a0is not only balanced,\u00a0it’s a good reflection, I believe, of how the gospel message would relate to each<\/em> contemporary issue of our times.\u00a0 For more, see:\u00a0 www.cdpunitedstates.webs.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Note:\u00a0<\/strong> To stay with the environment a minute…\u00a0 We have traveled the country extensively researching alternative energy applications: wind projects in North Dakota; geothermal heating\u00a0in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; solar projects in New Mexico…\u00a0\u00a0During \u00a0a talk at the University of Notre Dame, I said that if global warming is real and we sacrifice, and also ramp up renewables, we save the planet for our children.\u00a0 If global warming\u00a0turns out to be not\u00a0real, and we sacrifice, and ramp up renewables, for our children’s sake:\u00a0 BIG DEAL!\u00a0<\/strong> In other words, the world gets a little greener — and we grow spiritually from the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I’ve been in touch with a representative from one of America’s newest political Parties, the Christian Democratic Party.\u00a0 Headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia,\u00a0 their literature explains that:\u00a0 “Chrisitan democracy” is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}