{"id":27249,"date":"2012-11-01T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/voices-without-a-vote\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:01:08","slug":"voices-without-a-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/voices-without-a-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices without a vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a matter of good citizenship, as a concern for faith and public order, for faith and reason, you and I <u>need to vote<\/u> <i>according to a fully<\/i> formed conscience.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A video clip of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VuCaWYvpVZg\">young men and women expressing their desire<\/a> to be heard in the voting process next Tuesday, 6 November. The young are <b>voices with a vote<\/b>. Watch the video!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t let your discouragement in the political campaigns be a good reason for not voting. In a democracy not to vote in a significant election is near sinful.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As a beginning step to forming your conscience you may want to consider reading the 2011 document of the US bishops:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Forming%20Consciences%20for%20Faithful%20Citizenship-%20A%20Call%20to%20Political%20Responsibility.pdf\">Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship- A Call to Political Responsibility.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a matter of good citizenship, as a concern for faith and public order, for faith and reason, you and I need to vote according to a fully formed conscience. A video clip of young men and women expressing their desire to be heard in the voting process next Tuesday, 6 November. The young are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/voices-without-a-vote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voices without a vote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[2949,1823,2547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}