{"id":287,"date":"2009-02-05T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:32:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:32:59","slug":"liberty-counsel-stimulus-bill-a-war-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/liberty-counsel-stimulus-bill-a-war-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Counsel: Stimulus Bill a &#8220;War on Prayer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News carries an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/02\/04\/conservative-groups-declare-obamas-stimulus-war-prayer\/\">article<\/a> based on a Liberty Counsel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lc.org\/index.cfm?PID=14102&#038;AlertID=953\">press release<\/a> about the current &#8220;stimulus package&#8221; being debated in Congress.\u00a0 In a section designating funds for schools, the legislation says that funds may not be used for<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities\u00a0(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or (ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, Fox News chose to put a picture of the US Naval Academy Chapel as the article&#8217;s illustration.\u00a0 Liberty Counsel maintains that the restriction is discrimination based on viewpoint, while Americans United for the Separation of Church and State calls it &#8220;Constitutional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Harvard Law professor is quoted as saying there are certainly Constitutional concerns with the legislation, but\u00a0given the current judicial\u00a0direction it is unlikely the Liberty Counsel would prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News carries an interesting article based on a Liberty Counsel press release about the current &#8220;stimulus package&#8221; being debated in Congress.\u00a0 In a section designating funds for schools, the legislation says that funds may not be used for modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities\u00a0(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or (ii) [&#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-287","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\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}