{"id":473,"date":"2012-03-05T09:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T09:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=473"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T09:21:30","slug":"religion-leaving-uk-public-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Religion leaving UK public life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_474\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/images-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-474 \" title=\"Church of England\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/images-2-300x62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/images-2-300x62.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/images-2.jpeg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going, going, gone: the C of E&#39;s role in public life is up for debate<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most Brits would tell you they are not religious. Yet the Christian religion is very much present in public life. Prayers are said before meetings in parliament and in local councils up and down the country. But last month the High Court ruled it is unlawful for councils to have prayers as part of their agenda. Secularists rejoice, while Christians say it\u2019s another step towards forcing religion out of public life altogether. Here&#8217;s my report for Inside Europe on Deutsche Welle radio:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" data-boourl=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/697339-religion-leaving-uk-public-life\/embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/697339-religion-leaving-uk-public-life\">listen to \u2018Religion leaving UK public life\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"http:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Brits would tell you they are not religious. Yet the Christian religion is very much present in public life. Prayers are said before meetings in parliament and in local councils up and down the country. But last month the High Court ruled it is unlawful for councils to have prayers as part of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}