{"id":222182,"date":"2026-04-25T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222182"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:48:36","slug":"mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=222182","title":{"rendered":"Mixing religion and politics in America. That isn\u2019t new. What makes today different?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is certainly fading fast. The evidence? A Supreme Court willing to rule in favor of faith-based lawsuits; a secretary of Defense framing the war in Iran in apocalyptic terms; a president pushing a law restricting voting rights&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/podcasts\/equal-time\/mixing-religion-politics-what-makes-today-different\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different.jpg",1620,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different.jpg",1620,1080,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/222182-mixing-religion-and-politics-in-america-that-isnt-new-what-makes-today-different-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}