{"id":149,"date":"2008-01-14T21:19:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:37:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:37:16","slug":"religious-freedom-day-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/religious-freedom-day-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom Day, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Freedom Day takes place\u00a0annually on\u00a0January 16th by Presidential proclamation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/01\/20080114-5.html\">2008<\/a>).\u00a0 The day commemorates the Virginia Legislature&#8217;s passing of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s &#8220;Statute for Religious Freedom,&#8221; which occurred on January 16th, 1786.\u00a0 Notably, this was before\u00a0the Constitution (signed in 1787), of which Jefferson had no part, and the Bill of Rights (passed in 1789), of which Jefferson was one of the leading proponents.<\/p>\n<p>Many on both sides of the issue consider\u00a0the\u00a0statute to be pivotal to the modern struggle\u00a0of religious freedom and church\/state separation.\u00a0 It is interesting that the day gets very little mainstream media attention, particularly given the &#8220;culture wars&#8221; and church\/state issues that have seemed so dramatic over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose and background of RFD can be seen on the privately-funded site <a href=\"http:\/\/religiousfreedomday.com\/\">ReligiousFreedomDay.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Freedom Day takes place\u00a0annually on\u00a0January 16th by Presidential proclamation (2008).\u00a0 The day commemorates the Virginia Legislature&#8217;s passing of Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s &#8220;Statute for Religious Freedom,&#8221; which occurred on January 16th, 1786.\u00a0 Notably, this was before\u00a0the Constitution (signed in 1787), of which Jefferson had no part, and the Bill of Rights (passed in 1789), of which Jefferson was one of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,2,10],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}