{"id":434,"date":"2004-04-27T20:04:44","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:36","slug":"something_thats_missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Something That’s Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Drum has a guest post up<\/a> by Bruce Reed, who was Clinton’s chief domestic policy advisor (calm down!). It’s a dead-on commentary on the pro-choice march in Washington last weekend (see pictures and commentary by a pro-choice Republican here<\/a>). <\/p>\n

He makes a key point:<\/p>\n

After sharing the Mall with a million choice supporters yesterday, I don’t see how anyone could say that our side lacks religious fervor. People made pilgrimages from thousands of miles to stand up for their convictions, flocking to the capital of compassionate conservatism to demand more compassion from their leaders.<\/p>\n

\nAt the same time, I couldn’t help noticing that the one thing we seem to have no religious fervor for is religion.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he concludes…<\/p>\n

Still, the Mall could have used more sermons on Sunday, and fewer celebrities. It\u2019s not fair to compare a Sunday spent listening to well-meaning activists with that day Martin Luther King called all God\u2019s children to join hands and sing the words of the old spiritual, \u201cFree at last.\u201d But as we helped our children count the number of dogs at the march so they wouldn\u2019t count the number of obscenities one entertainer was shouting from onstage, I couldn’t help thinking about what has been lost along the way. <\/p>\n

\nAnd how much longer it will take to get where we want to go without it.<\/b> (emphasis added)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll drink to that. <\/p>\n

I’ve followed the whole ‘defending Howard Stern’ discussion with a kind of sour grin. The only thing I like less than the coarsening of public behavior we’re seeing now is the censorship proposed to cure it; that’s as true of political discourse as entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“After sharing the Mall with a million choice supporters yesterday, I don’t see how anyone could say that our side lacks religious fervor…. At the same time, I couldn’t help noticing that the one thing we seem to have no religious fervor for is religion”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}