{"id":49391,"date":"2015-04-16T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_canadian_supreme_court_rules_against_prayer_at_city_council_meetings\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T02:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T02:00:36","slug":"rns_canadian_supreme_court_rules_against_prayer_at_city_council_meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49391","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Canadian Supreme Court rules against prayer at city council meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Supreme Court has ruled that a small town in Quebec may not open its council meetings with prayer.<\/p>\n<p>In a unanimous ruling Wednesday (April 15), Canada\u2019s highest court ruled that the town of Saguenay can no longer publicly recite a Catholic prayer because it infringes on freedom of conscience and religion.<\/p>\n<p>The case dates back to 2007, when a resident of Saguenay complained about public prayer at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/04\/15\/canadian-supreme-court-rules-prayer-city-council-meeting\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Supreme Court has ruled that a small town in Quebec may not open its council meetings with prayer. In a unanimous ruling Wednesday (April 15), Canada\u2019s highest court ruled that the town of Saguenay can no longer publicly recite<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49391\">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":[48,39,40,50,207,615,168,114,151,108,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391","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=49391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}