{"id":41,"date":"2008-08-04T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/sign-the-petition-to-john-mcca.html"},"modified":"2008-08-04T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:05:34","slug":"sign-the-petition-to-john-mcca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/sign-the-petition-to-john-mcca.html","title":{"rendered":"Senator McCain: Take Down this Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thank you everyone for your emails and response to my earlier blog post on McCain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8\">&#8220;The One&#8221; ad<\/a>. \u00a0The McCain campaign has said that they meant the ad to be humorous. \u00a0But make no mistake about it: this ad is directed at Christians with a very dark message.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Please join us in asking John McCain to repudiate and take down this offensive ad.\u00a0Sign the petition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthew25.org\/TheOnePetition.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<div>Please help us get thousands of signatures in the next 48 hours by sending this <a href=\"http:\/\/matthew25.org\/theonepetition.htm\">petition<\/a> to every person of faith and conscience that would join us in rejecting\u00a0of this kind of insulting and divisive\u00a0politics.<\/div>\n<div><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you everyone for your emails and response to my earlier blog post on McCain&#8217;s &#8220;The One&#8221; ad. \u00a0The McCain campaign has said that they meant the ad to be humorous. \u00a0But make no mistake about it: this ad is directed at Christians with a very dark message. 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