{"id":32962,"date":"2012-06-09T23:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_a_north_dakota_religious_liberty_measure_sparks_debate\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T23:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T23:40:01","slug":"npr_a_north_dakota_religious_liberty_measure_sparks_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32962","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) A North Dakota &#39;religious liberty&#39; measure sparks debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, North Dakota voters will decide whether to add an amendment to the state&#8217;s constitution that supporters say will guarantee religious freedom. But the ballot measure has prompted debate over precisely what it safeguards; opponents argue that it&#8217;s a solution in search of a problem and worry about its consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Measure 3 is worded this way: &#8220;Government may not burden a person&#8217;s or religious organization&#8217;s religious liberty.&#8221; Its supporters call it the Religious Liberty Restoration amendment; they say it&#8217;s needed because of a 22-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision they believe has put limits on religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/06\/05\/154285336\/n-dakota-religious-liberty-measure-sparks-debate\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, North Dakota voters will decide whether to add an amendment to the state&#8217;s constitution that supporters say will guarantee religious freedom. But the ballot measure has prompted debate over precisely what it safeguards; opponents argue that it&#8217;s a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32962\">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":[39,40,114,151,108,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32962","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=32962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}