{"id":1507,"date":"2007-08-23T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/court_upholds_ban_on_bible_distribution_to_fifth_graders\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:05:00","slug":"court_upholds_ban_on_bible_distribution_to_fifth_graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Court Upholds Ban on Bible Distribution to Fifth-Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that prohibited the distribution of Bibles to grade school students in a southern Missouri school district.<\/p>\n<p>At issue was a long-held practice at South Iron Elementary School in Annapolis, 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, in which Gideons International representatives came to fifth-grade classrooms and gave away Bibles. A U.S. district judge issued a temporary injunction, and a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis agreed the classroom distribution should be prohibited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/wireStory?id=3509509\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that prohibited the distribution of Bibles to grade school students in a southern Missouri school district. At issue was a long-held practice at South Iron Elementary School in Annapolis, 120<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1507\">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":[42,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-state-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}