{"id":55696,"date":"2016-09-18T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wapo_charles_haynes-the_deeply_troubling_federal_report_targeting_religiou\/"},"modified":"2016-09-18T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T16:00:20","slug":"wapo_charles_haynes-the_deeply_troubling_federal_report_targeting_religiou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55696","title":{"rendered":"(WaPo) Charles Haynes&#8211;The deeply troubling federal report targeting religious freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 225 years after the ratification of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the cause of conscience protected by the principles of \u201cno establishment\u201d\u009d and \u201cfree exercise\u201d\u009d may be losing support in the minds and hearts of the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Appeals by religious individuals and groups for exemption from government laws and regulations that substantially burden religious practice are increasingly unpopular and controversial. So much so that many in the media have taken to using scare quotes, transforming religious freedom into \u201creligious freedom.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Now the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights appears to be recommending that we make it official: Our first freedom is first no more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2016\/09\/16\/the-deeply-troubling-federal-report-highlighting-religious-freedom\/?postshare=6361474030034728&#038;tid=ss_tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 225 years after the ratification of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the cause of conscience protected by the principles of \u201cno establishment\u201d\u009d and \u201cfree exercise\u201d\u009d may be losing support in the minds and hearts of the American<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55696\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,168,133,114,155,151,108,424,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55696","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=55696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}