{"id":26532,"date":"2011-06-04T03:09:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T03:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/court_lets_new_york_city_restrict_church_use_of_schools\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T03:09:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T03:09:45","slug":"court_lets_new_york_city_restrict_church_use_of_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26532","title":{"rendered":"Court Lets New York City Restrict Church Use of Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City may again block religious groups from using school facilities outside of regular school hours for \u201creligious worship services,\u201d\u009d a federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Deciding 2 to 1, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said the city had \u201ca strong basis to believe\u201d\u009d that allowing the religious services to be conducted in schools could be seen as the kind of endorsement of religion that violated the First Amendment\u2019s establishment clause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen worship services are performed in a place,\u201d\u009d Judge Pierre N. Leval wrote for the majority, \u201cthe nature of the site changes. The site is no longer simply a room in a school being used temporarily for some activity.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/03\/nyregion\/judges-let-new-york-city-ban-worship-services-from-schools.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City may again block religious groups from using school facilities outside of regular school hours for \u201creligious worship services,\u201d\u009d a federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Thursday. Deciding 2 to 1, a panel of the United States<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26532\">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":[39,40,615,111,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532","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=26532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}