{"id":3919,"date":"2022-04-03T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/religion-and-politics-are-a-dangerous-mix-whether-its-putin-or-trump-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T21:21:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:21:54","slug":"religion-and-politics-are-a-dangerous-mix-whether-its-putin-or-trump-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/religion-and-politics-are-a-dangerous-mix-whether-its-putin-or-trump-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and politics are a dangerous mix \u2013 whether it&#039;s Putin or Trump &#8211; USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has framed his country\u2019s brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/28\/patriarch-kirill-putin-ally-faces-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">invasion of Ukraine as part of a \u201cmetaphysical\u201d battle against Western values<\/a>\u00a0that bless so-called sins like gay pride parades.<br \/>But the patriarch\u2019s concern for sexual morality hasn\u2019t stopped him from jumping into bed with Russian President Vladimir Putin, politically. And that really is a sin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2022\/04\/03\/putin-trump-mixing-religion-politics\/7229275001\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has framed his country\u2019s brutal invasion of Ukraine as part of a \u201cmetaphysical\u201d battle against Western values\u00a0that bless so-called sins like gay pride parades.But the patriarch\u2019s concern for sexual morality hasn\u2019t stopped him from jumping into bed with Russian President Vladimir Putin, politically. And that really is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}