{"id":527,"date":"2004-03-13T16:44:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=527"},"modified":"2009-01-16T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T22:01:41","slug":"political-leanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/03\/political-leanings\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Leanings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Evans and Mathew Parke recently set up a new blog <\/a>for discussing LDS thought from a liberal perspective. I hope to weigh there as well sometimes.<\/p>\n

In the inaugural substantive post, Steve made the interesting observation that even liberal Mormons are pretty conservative in general<\/a>. Using the imperfect indicator of the online Political Compass <\/a>test, Steve and I both turned out to be more-or-less left-leaning centrists (as did Steve’s wife Sumer). I’m curious as to how our group of readers places on the spectrum (I’ve seen Russell’s score somewhere on his blog, but I don’t know anyone else’s). And so I invite T & S readers to post their own scores as comments to this thread. A tally will be kept.
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\nScores so far:<\/p>\n

Kaimi Wenger: -1.62 \/ -2.56
\nSteve Evans: -4.38 \/ -1.56
\nSumer Evans: -3.25 \/ 0.26
\nMat Parke: -2.50 \/ -2.00
\nKaren Hall: -4.68 \/ -2.62
\nClark Goble: -0.12 \/ -2.31
\nGary Cooper: 2.12 \/ 0.67
\nLyle Stamps: 4.12 \/ 1.18
\nBen Spackman: -4.88 \/ .36
\nBrayden King: -6.62 \/ -4.00
\nMichelle Mumford: 1.00 \/ -0.92
\nGordon Smith: -1.12 \/ -1.03
\nKori: -4.25 \/ -2.41
\nJulie Smith: 2.50 \/ -2.67
\nMardell Wenger: 0.62 \/ 0.36<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Evans and Mathew Parke recently set up a new blog for discussing LDS thought from a liberal perspective. I hope to weigh there as well sometimes. In the inaugural substantive post, Steve made the interesting observation that even liberal Mormons are pretty conservative in general. Using the imperfect indicator of the online Political Compass test, Steve and I both turned out to be more-or-less left-leaning centrists (as did Steve’s wife Sumer). I’m curious as to how our group of readers places on the spectrum (I’ve seen Russell’s score somewhere on his blog, but I don’t know anyone else’s). And so I invite T & S readers to post their own scores as comments to this thread. A tally will be kept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}