{"id":46999,"date":"2014-11-22T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_area_oakbrook_elementary_schools_fund_drive_for_a_church_draws_threat\/"},"modified":"2014-11-22T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T20:00:19","slug":"local_area_oakbrook_elementary_schools_fund_drive_for_a_church_draws_threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46999","title":{"rendered":"(Local Area) Oakbrook Elementary School&#39;s fund drive for a church draws threat from Humanist group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local school&#8217;s fund drive for a church has caught the attention of the American Humanist Association, a secular group concerned about the separation of church and state. The group is threatening legal action.<\/p>\n<p>The student council of Oakbrook Elementary School in Ladson is raising money and encouraging donations to Old Fort Baptist Church&#8217;s food pantry. The efforts were publicized on the school&#8217;s website and in fliers as supporting &#8220;Old Fort Baptist Missions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Humanist Association, whose slogan is &#8220;good without God,&#8221; said they sent a letter on Thursday by email to Dorchester District 2 Superintendent Joe Pye and Principal Monica O&#8217;Dea claiming that it was unconstitutional for a school to raise money for a church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20141121\/PC16\/141129892\/1177\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local school&#8217;s fund drive for a church has caught the attention of the American Humanist Association, a secular group concerned about the separation of church and state. The group is threatening legal action. The student council of Oakbrook Elementary<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46999\">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":[39,40,42,54,101,615,111,114,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-children","category-city-government","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46999","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=46999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}