{"id":3364,"date":"2009-11-18T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2009-11-18T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:21:44","slug":"church-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/church-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Church &#038; State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">England has a state church\u00a0(a fact that&#8211;quite reasonably&#8211;gives that church, the\u00a0Church of England, some privileges), but only the one. Now it seems luckless Brits are going to have to put up with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/6569144\/Faith-groups-to-be-key-policy-advisers.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">this<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0John Denham, the communities secretary, said the values of Christians, Muslims and other religions were essential in building a &#8220;progressive society&#8221;&#8230;Mr Denham revealed that a new panel of religious experts has been set up to advise the Government on making public policy decisions. The move has been criticised by secularists who warned that it represented a worrying development. However, Mr Denham argued that Christians and Muslims can contribute significant insights on key issues, such as the economy, parenting and tackling climate change.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2009\/11\/the-privileges-of-piety.html\" target=\"_blank\">H\/t David Thompson <\/a>who also has a few unkind\u00a0remarks to make about absurd comments recently made by the absurd Archbishop of Canterbury and on which I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3335\" target=\"_blank\">here <\/a>yesterday.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 England has a state church\u00a0(a fact that&#8211;quite reasonably&#8211;gives that church, the\u00a0Church of England, some privileges), but only the one. Now it seems luckless Brits are going to have to put up with this: \u00a0John Denham, the communities secretary, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/church-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[29,403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}