{"id":11750,"date":"2009-03-17T01:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religious_intelligence_eu_planned_law_could_outlaw_evangelising\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T01:29:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T01:29:04","slug":"religious_intelligence_eu_planned_law_could_outlaw_evangelising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11750","title":{"rendered":"Religious Intelligence: EU planned law could outlaw evangelising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelising could be legally regarded as harassment, should new European Union (EU) equality legislation be approved, warns the Church.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-discrimination proposals, to be considered by the 27 EU member states this year, have also been criticised by The Law Society, who feels the law could cut both ways.<\/p>\n<p>In an official submission to the EU, the Society illustrated the potential problems: \u201cIn a shop or shared lodging house, there may be a notice board on which is posted material that some of those who see it will find offensive on religious grounds (for instance, a poster for a film, such as The Life Of Brian).\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiousintelligence.co.uk\/news\/?NewsID=4108\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelising could be legally regarded as harassment, should new European Union (EU) equality legislation be approved, warns the Church. The anti-discrimination proposals, to be considered by the 27 EU member states this year, have also been criticised by The Law<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11750\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,200,440,114,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}