{"id":21,"date":"2007-09-03T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:17:32","slug":"in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html","title":{"rendered":"In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After unveiling a sparkly new stump speech in New Hampshire Sunday, Hillary Clinton delivered it in Iowa again today, but with a few notable omissions: the parts where she says she wouldn\u2019t budge on supporting a woman\u2019s right to an abortion and where she applauds the Granite State\u2019s governor for signing a law legalizing gay civil unions there. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/03\/clintons-altered-iowa-speech\">The New York Times\u2019 <\/em>caucus blog<\/a> notes that she was speaking sans-notes in her Sioux City, Iowa appearance, but God-o-Meter doubts this was a case of temporary amnesia. Clinton\u2019s religious outreach team is particularly hopeful about Iowa because of its unusually large Methodist population\u2014Clinton, by many accounts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16960621\/site\/newsweek\">takes her own Methodism seriously<\/a>\u2014and likely wants to avoid needlessly rattling culturally conservative Hawkeye Democrats by reminding them of her liberal social stands.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After unveiling a sparkly new stump speech in New Hampshire Sunday, Hillary Clinton delivered it in Iowa again today, but with a few notable omissions: the parts where she says she wouldn\u2019t budge on supporting a woman\u2019s right to an abortion and where she applauds the Granite State\u2019s governor for signing a law legalizing gay&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-21","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>In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech - 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\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After unveiling a sparkly new stump speech in New Hampshire Sunday, Hillary Clinton delivered it in Iowa again today, but with a few notable omissions: the parts where she says she wouldn\u2019t budge on supporting a woman\u2019s right to an abortion and where she applauds the Granite State\u2019s governor for signing a law legalizing gay&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-09-03T16:17:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"dgilgoff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech - 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\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech - God-O-Meter","og_description":"After unveiling a sparkly new stump speech in New Hampshire Sunday, Hillary Clinton delivered it in Iowa again today, but with a few notable omissions: the parts where she says she wouldn\u2019t budge on supporting a woman\u2019s right to an abortion and where she applauds the Granite State\u2019s governor for signing a law legalizing gay&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html","og_site_name":"God-O-Meter","article_published_time":"2007-09-03T16:17:32+00:00","author":"dgilgoff","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html","name":"In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech - God-O-Meter","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-09-03T16:17:32+00:00","dateModified":"2007-09-03T16:17:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/#\/schema\/person\/b7e97412c87d7a3b866e9972cc090db4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/in-iowa-hillary-axes-support-f.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"In Iowa, Hillary axes support for abortion rights, gay civil unions from stump speech"}]},{"@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\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}