{"id":19869,"date":"2010-05-21T16:02:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T16:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-catholic_bishops_leave_civil_rights_group_after_kagan_endorsement\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T16:02:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T16:02:31","slug":"rns-catholic_bishops_leave_civil_rights_group_after_kagan_endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19869","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Catholic bishops leave civil rights group after Kagan endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Catholic bishops withdrew from a national civil rights coalition on Wednesday (May 19) after the group advocated on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights<br \/>\n(LCCR) was founded in 1950 by African American and Jewish leaders to press for the passage of national civil rights laws.<\/p>\n<p>But in recent years, the coalition has broadened its agenda to include advocacy for issues that contradict the bishops&#8217; principles and policies, said Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., who chairs the bishops&#8217; committee on justice and peace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/Catholic-bishops-leave-civil-rights-group-after-Kagan-endorsement.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Catholic bishops withdrew from a national civil rights coalition on Wednesday (May 19) after the group advocated on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. The Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR) was founded in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19869\">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":[39,42,114,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869","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=19869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}