{"id":13125,"date":"2012-08-11T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=13125"},"modified":"2012-08-11T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T21:05:12","slug":"can-missouri-students-skip-evolution-assignments-if-they-dont-believe-in-it-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/can-missouri-students-skip-evolution-assignments-if-they-dont-believe-in-it-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Missouri Students Skip Evolution Assignments If They Don&#039;t Believe In It?  I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/\">NCSE<\/a>, Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 2 which protects the right of citizens to pray and express religious beliefs, which was already the case because of the US Constitution. However, the Amendment will have other effects that were not mentioned at the voting booth.  For example, &#8220;no student shall be compelled to perform or participate in academic assignments or educational presentations that violate his or her religious beliefs.&#8221;  What do you think THAT is going to lead to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, according to the NCSE, Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 2 which protects the right of citizens to pray and express religious beliefs, which was already the case because of the US Constitution. However, the Amendment will have other effects that were not mentioned at the voting booth. For example, &#8220;no student shall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/can-missouri-students-skip-evolution-assignments-if-they-dont-believe-in-it-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can Missouri Students Skip Evolution Assignments If They Don&#039;t Believe In It?  I<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86,2030,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-3pH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}