{"id":52611,"date":"2015-12-14T21:21:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_religionethics_newsweekly-religious_responses_to_call_for_us_muslim_ba\/"},"modified":"2015-12-14T21:21:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T21:21:26","slug":"pbs_religionethics_newsweekly-religious_responses_to_call_for_us_muslim_ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52611","title":{"rendered":"PBS Religion+Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;Religious Responses to Call for US Muslim Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[KIM] LAWTON: Many across the faith community condemned the plan as discriminatory and a violation of religious liberty. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said their faith was being unfairly singled out by a lynch mob. Thousands of US faith leaders wrote an open letter urging Trump to repudiate his comments. Reverend Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, called the plan \u201creckless rhetoric.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>RUSSELL MOORE: The idea of banning people from the country simply because of what they believe? It\u2019s shocking to me. When I first heard this, I had to stop and say, did I really hear that correctly and listen to it again. It\u2019s really troubling.<\/p>\n<p>LAWTON: He said his evangelical beliefs motivate him to speak out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/12\/11\/december-11-2015-religious-responses-to-call-for-us-muslim-ban\/28321\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[KIM] LAWTON: Many across the faith community condemned the plan as discriminatory and a violation of religious liberty. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said their faith was being unfairly singled out by a lynch mob. Thousands of US faith leaders<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52611\">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":[39,40,42,175,168,419,426,114,154,155,177,151,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52611","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=52611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}