{"id":888,"date":"2008-12-16T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T02:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=888"},"modified":"2008-12-16T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T03:37:12","slug":"day-of-prayer-day-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/day-of-prayer-day-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Prayer?  Day in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Freedom from Religion Foundation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-na-atheists15-2008dec15,0,5169098.story\">has sued to stop<\/a> Colorado Governor Bill Ritter from issuing a proclamation in support of the National Day of Prayer, reports the Los Angeles Times.\u00a0 My instincts are with my co-bloggers&#8211; secularists should stay out of court as much as possible.\u00a0 Litigating these religion cases only increases what Wally<a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=142\"> has described<\/a> as the religious right\u2019s skillfully cultivated \u201csense of being besieged and persecuted.\u201d\u00a0 Better that politicians should worry that a significant number of voters will find a National Day of Prayer laughable than that they will be hauled into court.\u00a0 Besides, the anodyne, generic version of Christianity\u2014now expanded to Judeo-Christianity\u2014presented in most such public assertions of piety has been so thoroughly tamed by Enlightenment principles of tolerance that it\u2019s a far cry from the sectarian, life-or-death, bloodshed-producing religion that the Founders rightly worried about.\u00a0 If the proponents of these public pronouncements maintain that non-believers shouldn\u2019t take the claims seriously enough to find a Constitutional violation, let\u2019s call that a victory.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (I could be persuaded otherwise in this particular case, however, depending on the details.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Freedom from Religion Foundation has sued to stop Colorado Governor Bill Ritter from issuing a proclamation in support of the National Day of Prayer, reports the Los Angeles Times.\u00a0 My instincts are with my co-bloggers&#8211; secularists should stay out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/day-of-prayer-day-in-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26,15,1],"tags":[29,1133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888"}],"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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}