{"id":1944,"date":"2004-02-18T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2004-02-18T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2011-02-27T02:49:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T02:49:55","slug":"elections-faith-and-social-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"Elections, faith and social conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bruce Duncan, <br \/>\n <em>Micah <\/em>(December 2004), 3-4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Elections-faith-and-social-conscience.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1949\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Timor-Leste Holds Second National Village Elections Under UNMIT Supervision\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Elections-faith-and-social-conscience-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Elections-faith-and-social-conscience-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Elections-faith-and-social-conscience-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Elections-faith-and-social-conscience-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/Elections-faith-and-social-conscience-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The recent elections in Australia and the USA have raised urgent questions about the relationship between religious faith, politics and social concern. Some commentators in Australia have expressed fears that a new religious Right might emerge like that in the USA, relying on a fundamentalist or literalist interpretation of the Bible, and imposing social policies in the name of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Duncan-Elections-faith-and-social-conscience2004.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> to read the article.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Photo: United Nations &#8211; Flickr CC<br \/>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bruce Duncan, Micah (December 2004), 3-4. The recent elections in Australia and the USA have raised urgent questions about the relationship between religious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialpolicyconnections.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}