{"id":28846,"date":"2011-10-19T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_under_pressure_d-c-_shelter_ends_church-service_requirement\/"},"modified":"2011-10-19T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T20:00:49","slug":"rns_under_pressure_d-c-_shelter_ends_church-service_requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28846","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Under Pressure, D.C. Shelter Ends Church-service Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by civil liberties groups, a taxpayer-supported homeless shelter in the nation\u2019s capital will no longer require its clients to attend religious services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased that the D.C. government will no longer be supporting such religious coercion,\u201d\u009d said Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the Washington, D.C., branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/under-pressure-d-c-shelter-ends-church-service-requirement-cms-18683\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by civil liberties groups, a taxpayer-supported homeless shelter in the nation\u2019s capital will no longer require its clients to attend religious services. \u201cWe\u2019re pleased that the D.C. government will no longer be supporting such religious coercion,\u201d\u009d said Arthur Spitzer,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28846\">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":[39,40,615,114,151,88,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846","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=28846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}