{"id":30870,"date":"2012-02-15T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/baroness_warsis_speech_on_militant_secularism_in_full\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:44:05","slug":"baroness_warsis_speech_on_militant_secularism_in_full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30870","title":{"rendered":"Baroness Warsi&#39;s speech on &#39;militant secularism&#39; in full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all hinges on a basic misconception:<\/p>\n<p>That somehow to create equality and space for minority faiths and cultures we need to erase our majority religious heritage.<\/p>\n<p>But it is my belief that the societies we are, the cultures we\u2019ve created, the values we hold and the things we fight for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;stem from something we\u2019ve argued over, dissented from, discussed and built up:<\/p>\n<p>Centuries of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s what the Holy Father called the \u201cunrenounceable Christian roots of [our] culture and civilisation\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/comment-analysis\/2012\/02\/14\/warsi-s-speech-on-militant-secularism-in-full\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It all hinges on a basic misconception: That somehow to create equality and space for minority faiths and cultures we need to erase our majority religious heritage. But it is my belief that the societies we are, the cultures we\u2019ve<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30870\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,133,426,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-history","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870","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=30870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}