{"id":7647,"date":"2009-11-24T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T17:17:48","slug":"religious-meets-litigious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/religious-meets-litigious\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Meets Litigious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2009\/11\/24\/prayer\"> Religious Meets Litigious<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group that advocates separation of church and state has filed a lawsuit against South Orange Community College District, in California, for opening many of its official events with Christian prayer.<\/p>\n<p>The suit by Americans United for Separation of Church and State challenges prayer at Saddleback College, one of two institutions in the district. It states that, \u201cfor years, the trustees, the chancellor, and the president of Saddleback College have routinely held official prayer at numerous events for college students and faculty, including scholarship ceremonies, graduations, and the Chancellor\u2019s Opening Sessions.\u201d These public prayers, the suit further argues, \u201care insulting to [the] deeply held religious beliefs of some students&#8221;; it also states that these prayers make other students \u201cfeel like outsiders because they do not belong to the \u2026 preferred faith\u201d of the community college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Higher Ed: Religious Meets Litigious A group that advocates separation of church and state has filed a lawsuit against South Orange Community College District, in California, for opening many of its official events with Christian prayer. The suit by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/religious-meets-litigious\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264],"tags":[2805,1288952,6578,1288934,6579],"class_list":["post-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-issues","tag-california","tag-legal-issues","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-south-orange-cc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}