{"id":5408,"date":"2011-10-25T11:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2011-10-25T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:31:21","slug":"a-statue-of-jesus-in-a-national-forrest-violates-church-state-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/a-statue-of-jesus-in-a-national-forrest-violates-church-state-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Statue Of Jesus In A National Forest Violates Church-State Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a postcard-worthy spot on Big Mountain in Montana stands a statue of Jesus Christ. The statue is in close proximity to Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Mont., and it has been something of a curiosity to skiers over the years.<\/p>\n<p>The statue was put there more than 50 years ago by the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal organization, to honor World War II veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is the statue is on land that is part of a national forrest, so its placement constitutes a church-state separation violation. The U.S. Forest Service had planned to remove the statue after receiving a complaint from the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) until it learned why the statue had been placed there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2011\/10\/24\/monumental-mistake-a-statue-of-jesus-in-a-national-forrest-violates-church-state-separation\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a postcard-worthy spot on Big Mountain in Montana stands a statue of Jesus Christ. The statue is in close proximity to Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Mont., and it has been something of a curiosity to skiers over the years. The statue was put there more than 50 years ago by the Knights of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/a-statue-of-jesus-in-a-national-forrest-violates-church-state-separation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Statue Of Jesus In A National Forest Violates Church-State Separation<\/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":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1pe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408"}],"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=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}