{"id":5827,"date":"2012-01-05T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2012-01-05T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T21:27:48","slug":"secular-coalition-fails-most-2012-presidential-candidates-on-religiously-intrusive-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/secular-coalition-fails-most-2012-presidential-candidates-on-religiously-intrusive-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Secular Coalition Fails Most 2012 Presidential Candidates on Religiously Intrusive Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secualar Coalition of america just released it&#8217;s 2012 Presidential Candiate Scorecard.  <\/p>\n<p>Here it is: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2012\/01\/05\/secular-coalition-fails-most-2012-presidential-candidates-on-religiously-intrusive-issues\/scorecard\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2012\/01\/scorecard.png?resize=430%2C495\" alt=\"\" title=\"scorecard\" width=\"430\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1838\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Key:<\/strong><br \/>\nCandidate\u2019s remarks and\/or actions have been:<br \/>\nA:    Consistently positive.<br \/>\nB:    Neutral or occasionally positive.<br \/>\nC:    Mixed, with positive and negative responses.<br \/>\nF:    Consistently hostile or negative.<br \/>\nN\/A:    At the time of publication, the Secular Coalition for America was unable to verify the candidate\u2019s position or did not have enough information to rate the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The secular coalition notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the three leading Republican candidates, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and U.S. Representative Ron Paul received mostly negative scores, while former U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich received a grade of \u201cF\u201d in almost every category. U.S. Representative Michelle Bachmann, Texas Governor Rick Perry, and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum also received almost exclusively negative grades in most categories. Former Utah Governor and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman and President Barack Obama received mixed positives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Details and more information <a href=\"http:\/\/secular.org\/content\/secular-coalition-fails-most-2012-presidential-candidates-religiously-intrusive-issues\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secualar Coalition of america just released it&#8217;s 2012 Presidential Candiate Scorecard. Here it is:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,280],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1vZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}