{"id":35496,"date":"2012-11-05T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/churches_not_necessarily_for_public_good_says_britains_charity_watchdog\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T17:30:27","slug":"churches_not_necessarily_for_public_good_says_britains_charity_watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35496","title":{"rendered":"Churches not necessarily for public good, says Britain&#39;s Charity Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England and other religious groups are not necessarily acting for the good of the public, Britain\u2019s charity watchdog has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Its officials decided that religion is not always for \u201cthe public benefit\u201d\u009d as it denied charitable status to the Plymouth Brethren, an exclusive Christian group, for one of its churches in Devon.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Plymouth Brethren, the watchdog set out its most recent decision that \u201cthere is no presumption that religion generally, or at any more specific level, is for the public benefit, even in the case of Christianity or the Church of England\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/rowena-mason\/9654502\/Churches-not-necessarily-for-public-good-says-charity-watchdog.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England and other religious groups are not necessarily acting for the good of the public, Britain\u2019s charity watchdog has ruled. Its officials decided that religion is not always for \u201cthe public benefit\u201d\u009d as it denied charitable status<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35496\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,135,389,199,114,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35496","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-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35496","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=35496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}