{"id":28568,"date":"2011-10-03T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_supreme_court_to_weigh_churches_hiring_rights\/"},"modified":"2011-10-03T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:36:32","slug":"rns_supreme_court_to_weigh_churches_hiring_rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28568","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Supreme Court to Weigh Churches\u2019 Hiring Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Oct. 5.) will hear one of most important religion cases in decades, centered on the degree to which religious institutions should be exempt from anti-discrimination laws.<\/p>\n<p>The case started at a Lutheran elementary school in Michigan where a teacher claimed she was fired in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act.<\/p>\n<p>The question before the justices concerns the \u201cministerial exception,\u201d\u009d a 40-year-old legal doctrine that protects churches and other religious institutions from government interference in their employment decisions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/supreme-court-to-weigh-churches-hiring-rights-cms-18609\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Oct. 5.) will hear one of most important religion cases in decades, centered on the degree to which religious institutions should be exempt from anti-discrimination laws. The case started at a Lutheran elementary school in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28568\">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":[48,39,40,149,597,114,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568","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=28568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}