{"id":30891,"date":"2012-02-16T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bishop_of_derby_speaks_on_religious_education_in_schools_as_a_moral_iss\/"},"modified":"2012-02-16T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:15:32","slug":"the_bishop_of_derby_speaks_on_religious_education_in_schools_as_a_moral_iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30891","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Derby speaks on Religious Education in Schools as a Moral Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My final point is that we need to see this very much as a moral issue. My contacts in the police force are horrified to see human beings treated by commodities-just being sold. That is a gross moral issue, not just about supply but about demand. There is obviously enormous demand to take advantage of sexual exploitation. What does that say about moral standards and understanding of sexuality in our society? What does it say about a lack of discipline and taking other people seriously as human beings? I ask the Minister that if we withdraw RE from such a central role in schools, who but the great religions is going to provide any moral framework to give people guidance about sexual behaviour in our society?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/ld201212\/ldhansrd\/text\/120202-0002.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My final point is that we need to see this very much as a moral issue. My contacts in the police force are horrified to see human beings treated by commodities-just being sold. That is a gross moral issue, not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30891\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,101,389,635,111,199,168,151,108,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-education","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30891","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=30891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}