{"id":19486,"date":"2010-05-01T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/on_faith_washington_post_virginias_new_policy_on_prayer_policy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-01T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T18:03:20","slug":"on_faith_washington_post_virginias_new_policy_on_prayer_policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19486","title":{"rendered":"On Faith (Washington Post): Virginia&#39;s new policy on prayer policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of the commonwealth of Virginia has decided, &#8220;in the interest of religious freedom,&#8221; to grant state chaplains the freedom to pray in the name of Jesus at public events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just didn&#8217;t think it was right, the change that was made a couple years ago, to have an official state policy to tell chaplains of any faith how to pray, whether Muslim or Jew or Catholic or Christian,&#8221; Gov. Bob McDonnell told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If you reverse an official state policy on prayer with another state policy on prayer, it&#8217;s still a state policy on prayer, right?<\/p>\n<p>The conservative Christian Family Foundation of Virginia doesn&#8217;t seem to mind&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, the ACLU of Virginia agrees with the Family Foundation, at least on the need for the state of Virginia to have the right policy on prayer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/undergod\/2010\/04\/virginias_new_policy_on_prayer_policy.html?hpid=talkbox1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of the commonwealth of Virginia has decided, &#8220;in the interest of religious freedom,&#8221; to grant state chaplains the freedom to pray in the name of Jesus at public events. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t think it was right, the change<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19486\">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":[39,40,579,114,151,108,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-churchstate-matters","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486","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=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}