{"id":1945,"date":"2019-05-22T19:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2019-05-22T19:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T19:22:04","slug":"religious-liberty-and-peaceable-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Religious liberty and peaceable assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/church-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/church-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/church-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/church-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/church-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/church.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During a village council meeting I was covering last night, the village administrator said he&#8217;d been contacted by this church about them holding an open-air morning service in the downtown park.  Back and forth discussion ensued among the council members about the interface of &#8220;church and state&#8221; in regard to allowing this.  Then the mayor, who took on sort of a wizard (in the <em>Wizard of Oz<\/em>) sage-like role, said the U.S. Constitution provides for &#8220;peaceable assembly&#8221; on public land.  He surmised the worship service would, indeed, be &#8216;peaceable,&#8217; and the park is &#8216;public land,&#8217; so, huh&#8230;  I once gave a talk at Greensboro College in North Carolina.  I said that while I was for &#8220;separation of church and state&#8221; the way the founders intended, that didn&#8217;t mean, for instance, that you can&#8217;t have a politician who, say, pushes for legislation that matches his\/her moral compass.  In fact, I&#8217;d imagine in a sane society that you&#8217;d want that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a village council meeting I was covering last night, the village administrator said he&#8217;d been contacted by this church about them holding an open-air morning service in the downtown park. Back and forth discussion ensued among the council members <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1945\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}