{"id":5100,"date":"2012-02-24T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2012-02-24T10:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:00:03","slug":"carroll-county-maryland-employees-to-take-bible-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/carroll-county-maryland-employees-to-take-bible-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll County Maryland Employees to Take Bible Class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/carroll\/bs-md-ca-constitution-class-20120223,0,4011531.story\">Yeah, more or less:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carroll County commissioners have asked county employees to attend a seminar on the Maryland Constitution led by a conservative Christian minister, sparking accusations that local officials are overstepping the boundary between church and state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The minister in question is David Whitney, who is one of those guys who thinks he can reconcile American Law with the Bible, by making American Law like the Bible.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will be looking at the language of our founding fathers who wrote they were &#8216;grateful to Almighty God for civil and religious liberties&#8217; front and center on this document. The Bible is the source of the authority that they looked to.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United are annoyed with the $800 of government money funding the operation.  Rob Boston, of Americans United asks, &#8220;Do these commissioners realize what a mess they have stepped into? This is a toxic stew, and employees should not be forced to dine there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, more or less: Carroll County commissioners have asked county employees to attend a seminar on the Maryland Constitution led by a conservative Christian minister, sparking accusations that local officials are overstepping the boundary between church and state. The minister in question is David Whitney, who is one of those guys who thinks he can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/carroll-county-maryland-employees-to-take-bible-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carroll County Maryland Employees to Take Bible Class?<\/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":[],"tags":[388,280],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1kg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100"}],"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=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}