{"id":22,"date":"2007-09-03T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/09\/bill-richardson-to-iowans-god.html"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T16:32:56","slug":"bill-richardson-to-iowans-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/09\/bill-richardson-to-iowans-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to Iowa: God wants you to go first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter couldn\u2019t help but chuckle at Bill Richardson\u2019s telling an Iowa crowd that their state needs to preserve its threatened first-in-the-nation caucus status \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altoonaherald.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070904\/NEWS09\/709040378\">for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord<\/a>.\u201d Will Richardson get political points for according the Hawkeye State divine purpose? Maybe. But, while God-o-Meter has read Richardson\u2019s new book <em>Between Worlds <\/em>and therefore recognizes that he takes his Catholicism somewhat seriously, such off-the-cuff zingers may resurrect a stereotype of Democrats as invoking religion just for political purposes or as making light of religion or God. \u201cThat was a little weird,&#8221; one of the speech\u2019s attendees told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altoonaherald.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070904\/NEWS09\/709040378).\">The Des Moines Register<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI don&#8217;t know what God had to do with choosing Iowa among other states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God-o-Meter couldn\u2019t help but chuckle at Bill Richardson\u2019s telling an Iowa crowd that their state needs to preserve its threatened first-in-the-nation caucus status \u201cfor constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord.\u201d Will Richardson get political points for according the Hawkeye State divine purpose? 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