{"id":141,"date":"2007-11-30T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html"},"modified":"2007-11-30T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T14:10:53","slug":"hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html","title":{"rendered":"Hillary a Hit at Saddleback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hillarysaddleback.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/hillarysaddleback.jpg\" width=\"230\" \/>Who woulda thunk it? The woman whose presidential run has driven some Christian Right activists into the arms of Rudy Giuliani appeared yesterday at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saddleback.com\/\">Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church<\/a>&#8211;and received a standing ovation. The occasion was Saddleback&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.com\/en-US\/HIVAIDSCommunity\/GlobalConference\/Initiative.htm\">Global Summit on AIDS and the Church<\/a>, and while the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/community\/clinton-gets-standing-1930735-ovations-from\">Orange County Register<\/a> reports that all the top-tier presidential candidates were invited, only Clinton showed up.<br \/>\nGod-o-Meter noticed how Clinton repeatedly referred to the church community as &#8220;we&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTwenty five years ago when people \u2013 mostly young gay men \u2013 started dying of an unnamed disease, we didn&#8217;t talk about it in church,\u201d she said. \u201cWe&#8217;ve come a long way. Not only can we talk about AIDS in church, but churches can lead the way.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And why not? Clinton is, by all accounts, a devoted Methodist. Her appearance at Saddleback&#8211;and the language she used&#8211;were subtle, effective ways for her to tell religious Americans: I&#8217;m one of you. Judging from Clinton&#8217;s ecstatic reception, however, many already know (though God-o-Meter must note that <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/display.php3?ReportID=353\">The Pew Research Center&#8217;s polling<\/a> tells a different story).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who woulda thunk it? The woman whose presidential run has driven some Christian Right activists into the arms of Rudy Giuliani appeared yesterday at Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church&#8211;and received a standing ovation. The occasion was Saddleback&#8217;s annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church, and while the Orange County Register reports that all the top-tier&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hillary a Hit at Saddleback - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hillary a Hit at Saddleback - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who woulda thunk it? The woman whose presidential run has driven some Christian Right activists into the arms of Rudy Giuliani appeared yesterday at Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church&#8211;and received a standing ovation. The occasion was Saddleback&#8217;s annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church, and while the Orange County Register reports that all the top-tier&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-11-30T14:10:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillarysaddleback.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"dgilgoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hillary a Hit at Saddleback - God-O-Meter","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hillary a Hit at Saddleback - God-O-Meter","og_description":"Who woulda thunk it? The woman whose presidential run has driven some Christian Right activists into the arms of Rudy Giuliani appeared yesterday at Rick Warren&#8217;s Saddleback Church&#8211;and received a standing ovation. The occasion was Saddleback&#8217;s annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church, and while the Orange County Register reports that all the top-tier&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html","og_site_name":"God-O-Meter","article_published_time":"2007-11-30T14:10:53+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillarysaddleback.jpg"}],"author":"dgilgoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html","name":"Hillary a Hit at Saddleback - God-O-Meter","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillarysaddleback.jpg","datePublished":"2007-11-30T14:10:53+00:00","dateModified":"2007-11-30T14:10:53+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillarysaddleback.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/files\/import\/hillarysaddleback.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/hillary-a-hit-at-saddleback.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hillary a Hit at Saddleback"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/","name":"God-O-Meter","description":"A scientific measure of God-talk in the elections","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4","name":"dgilgoff","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/858\/858da2927809a8352512cd24712c020cx96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/858\/858da2927809a8352512cd24712c020cx96.jpg","caption":"dgilgoff"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/author\/dgilgoff"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}