{"id":20109,"date":"2023-05-12T00:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20109"},"modified":"2023-05-12T00:07:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T07:07:30","slug":"firing-line-friday-separation-of-church-and-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/05\/12\/firing-line-friday-separation-of-church-and-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Separation of Church and State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With bakers being forced to literally \u201cbake the cake\u201d by using their personal creative abilities to promote and endorse over their religious objections, while the Left, from environmental Gaia worship to the \u201cright spirit; wrong body\u201d magical thinking of transgenderism, the question of religion in the public sphere is a long running one. Let us look back over half-a-century ago when the question of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separation of church and state<\/a>\u201d was much different as William F. Buckley, Jr. debated Margaret Blain, Ralph Wafer, Clark DuRant, and Madalyn Murray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJIWgevK4zw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Separation of Church and State\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"With bakers being forced to literally \u2018bake the cake\u2019 by using their personal creative abilities to promote and endorse over their religious objections, while the Left, from environmental Gaia worship to the \u2018right spirit; wrong body\u2019 magical thinking of transgenderism, the question of religion in the public sphere is a long running one.  Let us look back over half-a-century ago when the question of the \u2018separation of church and state\u2019 was much different as William F. Buckley, Jr. debated Margaret Blain, Ralph\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With bakers being forced to literally \u201cbake the cake\u201d by using their personal creative abilities to promote and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/05\/12\/firing-line-friday-separation-of-church-and-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-20109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-uncategorized","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20110,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20109\/revisions\/20110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}