{"id":2346,"date":"2007-02-24T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2007\/02\/24\/brownback-a-wilberforce-republican-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-24T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T20:19:00","slug":"brownback-a-wilberforce-republican-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/brownback-a-wilberforce-republican-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownback a &#8220;Wilberforce Republican&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caucus, a blog by the New York Times, has an interesting post calling Sam Brownback the &#8220;W<a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/22\/sam-brownback-wilberforce-republican\/\">ilberforce Republican<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know who he is, never fear\u2014Hollywood is coming to the rescue with Friday\u2019s release of \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d The film details Mr. Wilberforce\u2019s successful, 20-year effort as a British member of parliament to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. He was inspired by his evangelical Christian beliefs. And Mr. Brownback, a devout Catholic who was previously an evangelical Protestant, \u201cis deeply inspired by William Wilberforce,\u201d said Brian Hart, his campaign spokesman.<br \/>A March 2006 article in The Economist first named Mr. Brownback a \u201cWilberforce Republican,\u201d referring to his faith-grounded efforts to end human trafficking, fight genocide and AIDS in Africa and to reform prisons. <br \/>The Kansas senator is running with the association. Two weeks ago, he introduced a bill to honor the British abolitionist, and today, he will participate in a panel discussion following a screening of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazinggracemovie.com\/\">Amazing Grace<\/a>\u201d in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must continue to follow Wilberforce\u2019s example and fight for the dignity and freedom of every person,\u201d Mr. Brownback said in a press release about the bill. \u201cIt is intolerable that 200 years after Britain banned its slave trade, there are still hundreds of thousands of victims of human trafficking who are used as bonded labors, sex slaves, and in other horrifying capacities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caucus, a blog by the New York Times, has an interesting post calling Sam Brownback the &#8220;Wilberforce Republican&#8220; If you don\u2019t know who he is, never fear\u2014Hollywood is coming to the rescue with Friday\u2019s release of \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d The film details Mr. Wilberforce\u2019s successful, 20-year effort as a British member of parliament to abolish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-BQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}