{"id":17599,"date":"2010-01-29T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_judge_grants_political_asylum_to_german_home-schoolers\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:00:15","slug":"rns_judge_grants_political_asylum_to_german_home-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17599","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Judge Grants Political Asylum to German Home-schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. immigration judge has granted political asylum to a Christian family from Germany that wants to home-school its children.<\/p>\n<p>The Home School Legal Defense Association, which defended the family, announced the Tuesday (Jan. 26) decision by Judge Lawrence Burman in Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision finally recognizes that German home-schoolers are a specific social group that is being persecuted by a Western democracy,\u201d\u009d said Mike Donnelly, an attorney and director of international relations for the Purcellville, Va.-based association.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=15545\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. immigration judge has granted political asylum to a Christian family from Germany that wants to home-school its children. The Home School Legal Defense Association, which defended the family, announced the Tuesday (Jan. 26) decision by Judge Lawrence Burman<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17599\">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":[39,50,101,111,200,478,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-children","category-education","category-europe","category-germany","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599","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=17599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}