{"id":17874,"date":"2010-02-12T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-no_consensus_for_obama_advisers_on_tricky_church-state_issues\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:00:25","slug":"rns-no_consensus_for_obama_advisers_on_tricky_church-state_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17874","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;No Consensus for Obama Advisers on Tricky Church-State Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25-member council advising the White House on faith-based issues has voted on two contentious issues for religious charities that receive government funds.<\/p>\n<p>By a vote of 13-12, the council members said the government should require houses of worship to form separate corporations in order to receive direct federal funding for social services.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, when asked whether the government should permit charities to offer social services in rooms containing religious art, symbols, messages or scripture, 16 said yes, two said no, and seven said they should be permitted if no other space is available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=15600\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25-member council advising the White House on faith-based issues has voted on two contentious issues for religious charities that receive government funds. By a vote of 13-12, the council members said the government should require houses of worship to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17874\">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":[39,40,579,114,616,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-churchstate-matters","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17874","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=17874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}