{"id":5739,"date":"2011-12-16T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T23:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2011-12-16T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T23:40:56","slug":"tuscumbia-city-school-silent-night-irks-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/tuscumbia-city-school-silent-night-irks-au\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuscumbia City School Silent Night Irks AU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans United for Separation of Church and State says it will sue the Tuscumbia City School District if the song Silent Night is sung during a Christmas Program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Tuscumbia City School Superintendent, Dr. Joe Walters, they have been advised by their attorney that the use of traditional Christmas music, including carols such as &#8220;Silent Night,&#8221; in the context of a school Christmas program has been permitted and ruled not to be in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Walters feels the Christmas program includes a variety of well known Christmas songs that advance the students&#8217; knowledge of cultural and religious heritage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waff.com\/story\/16342091\/school-said-singing-silent-night-in-program-doesnt-violate-constitution\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans United for Separation of Church and State says it will sue the Tuscumbia City School District if the song Silent Night is sung during a Christmas Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,280,913],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1uz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739"}],"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=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}