{"id":43886,"date":"2014-05-02T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_religious_freedom_is_marginalised_mp_warns\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T17:00:40","slug":"bbc_religious_freedom_is_marginalised_mp_warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43886","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Religious freedom is &#39;marginalised&#39;, MP warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Long, MP for Belfast East and deputy Alliance Party leader, has told the Commons that religious persecution is on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>She opened a backbench business debate on 1 May 2014 by saying that the freedom to subscribe to any religion or none is not offered enough protection by the UN.<\/p>\n<p>She referred to it as a &#8220;residual right&#8221; and warned that &#8220;within the family of human rights it remains on the margins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/democracylive\/house-of-commons-27238518\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Long, MP for Belfast East and deputy Alliance Party leader, has told the Commons that religious persecution is on the rise. She opened a backbench business debate on 1 May 2014 by saying that the freedom to subscribe to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43886\">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":[39,40,50,202,201,560,199,168,144,119,114,203,327,343,151,129,108,556,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-asia","category-egypt","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-nigeria","category-pakistan","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-syria","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886","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=43886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}