{"id":36761,"date":"2013-01-14T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sun-_telegraph_paul_diamond-christians_rights_martyred_on_a_cross_of_secul\/"},"modified":"2013-01-14T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T17:00:02","slug":"sun-_telegraph_paul_diamond-christians_rights_martyred_on_a_cross_of_secul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36761","title":{"rendered":"(Sun. Telegraph) Paul Diamond&#8211;Christians&#39; rights: Martyred on a cross of secular liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the [Harry] Hammond case just over a decade ago, the British courts have become a battleground for the clash of secular and Christian viewpoints.<br \/>\nThe battle has been almost universally one way as the rights of Christians, in terms of the ability to practise their faith in the public sphere, have been eroded to the point where they have virtually no protection.<\/p>\n<p>The cases that I have been instructed in are alarming- and it\u2019s not just the \u201clittle people\u201d\u009d: health workers or junior civil servants. It\u2019s also the top accountant being told he\u2019s lost his job because a public authority disapproves of his church\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/comment\/9798039\/Christians-rights-Martyred-on-a-cross-of-secular-liberalism.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the [Harry] Hammond case just over a decade ago, the British courts have become a battleground for the clash of secular and Christian viewpoints. The battle has been almost universally one way as the rights of Christians, in terms<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36761\">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":[39,50,199,200,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36761","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=36761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}