{"id":25946,"date":"2009-02-03T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/03\/dont-pray-for-me-great-britain\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T12:46:41","slug":"dont-pray-for-me-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/dont-pray-for-me-great-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t pray for me Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or Argentina or Nurse Ratchet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In our allegedly multicultural society, there is one religious group which is apparently not to be afforded equal respect, let alone treated for what it embodies &#8211; the foundational creed of this nation. That group is Britain&#8217;s Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Somerset community nurse and committed Christian Caroline Petrie has been suspended and faces being sacked and even struck off for offering to say a prayer for an elderly patient. Although startled, the patient &#8211; herself a Christian &#8211; did not make a complaint and was in no way offended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;. and so on and so forth.  So the assumption here is that Pushy Christians are OK?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I really want to know:  What is the difference between being &#8220;sacked&#8221; and being &#8220;Struck Off&#8221;???<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-1134042\/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-British-police-running-Muslim-demonstrators-Christian-nurse-facing-sack-offering-pray-patient--way-society-dies.html\">This story is here,<\/a> and there is a poll you may want to have a look at on the same site.<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/02\/keep_your_prayers_to_yourself.php\">Pharyngula<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; or Argentina or Nurse Ratchet. In our allegedly multicultural society, there is one religious group which is apparently not to be afforded equal respect, let alone treated for what it embodies &#8211; the foundational creed of this nation. That group is Britain&#8217;s Christians. Somerset community nurse and committed Christian Caroline Petrie has been suspended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/03\/dont-pray-for-me-great-britain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t pray for me Great Britain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ku","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946"}],"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=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}