{"id":290723,"date":"2010-02-07T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T23:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2429"},"modified":"2010-02-07T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T23:12:21","slug":"on-balance-we-have-taken-a-small-step-backward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/290723","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On balance, we have taken a small step backward&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Brent Walker, Executive Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjconline.org\/index.php?option=com_frontpage&amp;Itemid=1\">Baptist<br \/>\nJoint Committee on Public Affairs<\/a>, is a church\/state lawyer&#8217;s church\/state lawyer.<span style=\"\"> <\/span>I cannot tell you how often I<br \/>\nrely on his counsel, or how often I steal his insights (and even his<br \/>\njokes).<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>He has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjconline.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3223&amp;Itemid=112\">great<br \/>\noverview <\/a><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>of the past decade in<br \/>\nreligious liberty up on the BJC&#8217;s home page, reviewing the Supreme Court&#8217;s<br \/>\ndecisions in Establishment Clause and Free Exercise cases, as well as Religion<br \/>\nin Public Life and Religious Liberty Abroad.<\/p>\n<p>If only the news Brent has to report were better!<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>His conclusion:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-left: 0.5in;\">In terms of religious liberty and<br \/>\nchurch-state relations, however, it has been a mixed bag &#8212; some good news, some<br \/>\nbad. When compared to the state of religious liberty internationally, we<br \/>\ncontinue to do reasonably well in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Walker, Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, is a church\/state lawyer&#8217;s church\/state lawyer. I cannot tell you how often I rely on his counsel, or how often I steal his insights (and even his jokes).&nbsp; He has a great overview &nbsp;of the past decade in religious liberty up on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}