{"id":44441,"date":"2014-06-05T03:28:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eyes_on_churches_in_georgia_as_they_decide_whether_to_allow_guns\/"},"modified":"2014-06-05T03:28:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T03:28:53","slug":"eyes_on_churches_in_georgia_as_they_decide_whether_to_allow_guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44441","title":{"rendered":"(Gainesville, GA, Times) Eyes on churches in Georgia as they decide whether to allow guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Georgia\u2019s new comprehensive gun laws go into effect July 1, many churches will opt out of allowing weapons into worship halls.<\/p>\n<p>The Safe Carry Protection Act, sometimes called the \u201cGuns Everywhere\u201d\u009d law by opponents, goes into effect July 1. The language of the bill actually prohibits guns inside churches, unless the \u201cgoverning body or authority of the place of worship permits the carrying of weapons or long guns by license holders.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not even a concern for many Christian denominations, including in Catholic, Methodist and Episcopal churches. Leaders in all three organizations have pointed to no-weapons policies, and advised individual churches to follow the rules already in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesvilletimes.com\/section\/6\/article\/100352\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Georgia\u2019s new comprehensive gun laws go into effect July 1, many churches will opt out of allowing weapons into worship halls. The Safe Carry Protection Act, sometimes called the \u201cGuns Everywhere\u201d\u009d law by opponents, goes into effect July 1.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44441\">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":[36,39,42,66,114,360,154,129,108,364,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44441","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=44441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}