{"id":5531,"date":"2011-11-14T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:05:36","slug":"wisconsin-county-commission-pre-meeting-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/wisconsin-county-commission-pre-meeting-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin County Commission Pre-Meeting Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An attorney representing a Wisconsin foundation has requested that the Manatee County Commission halt prayers before its meetings, contending they violate the nation\u2019s constitutional principle of separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemoving official prayers from government meetings is the only way to respect the rights of conscience of all citizens, and ensure that the board is in compliance with the Constitution,\u201d wrote Patrick Elliott &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/2011\/11\/14\/3651494\/group-prayers-before-manatee-commission.html\">Detail and more here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a comment section.  Go and add your two cents!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attorney representing a Wisconsin foundation has requested that the Manatee County Commission halt prayers before its meetings, contending they violate the nation\u2019s constitutional principle of separation of church and state. \u201cRemoving official prayers from government meetings is the only way to respect the rights of conscience of all citizens, and ensure that the board &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/wisconsin-county-commission-pre-meeting-prayers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wisconsin County Commission Pre-Meeting Prayers<\/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\/p5fhV1-1rd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531"}],"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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}