{"id":33621,"date":"2012-07-18T03:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nz_anglican_leader_calls_for_an_end_to_bible_study_in_schools\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T03:06:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:06:49","slug":"nz_anglican_leader_calls_for_an_end_to_bible_study_in_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33621","title":{"rendered":"[NZ] Anglican leader calls for an end to Bible study in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Update: See statement from New Zealand Archbishops: <a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/44000\">Archbishops affirm Bible in Schools<\/a>]<br \/>An Anglican leader is urging state schools to ditch the Bible in Schools programme as he believes it is trying to create a loophole around the New Zealand Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>St Matthew in the City Reverend Clay Nelson has joined the atheist run-Secular Education Network in a bid to get the religious education programme out of the country&#8217;s primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson said the programme is an imposition on the human rights of children&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/national-news\/anglican-leader-calls-end-bible-study-in-schools-4973030\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update: See statement from New Zealand Archbishops: Archbishops affirm Bible in Schools]An Anglican leader is urging state schools to ditch the Bible in Schools programme as he believes it is trying to create a loophole around the New Zealand Bill<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33621\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,399,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-and-polynesia","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}