{"id":16281,"date":"2012-04-21T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16281"},"modified":"2012-04-21T17:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T21:51:58","slug":"atheist-threatens-human-rights-complaint-after-public-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-threatens-human-rights-complaint-after-public-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist threatens human rights complaint after public prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2012\/04\/21\/atheist-ashu-solo-threatens-human-rights-complaint-after-saskatoon-councillors-dinner-blessing\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Christian prayer by a city councillor at a City of Saskatoon volunteer appreciation dinner discriminated against non-Christians, says a volunteer who intends to complain to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Ashu Solo, a member of the city\u2019s cultural diversity and race relations committee, was among the guests at the dinner Wednesday, where Coun. Randy Donauer said a blessing over the food in which he mentioned Jesus and ended with \u201camen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt made me feel like a second-class citizen. It makes you feel excluded,\u201d said Solo, who is an atheist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What can one possibly say to an atheist who feels excluded by prayer? A number of things spring to mind, but I will confine myself to this: Good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A Christian prayer by a city councillor at a City of Saskatoon volunteer appreciation dinner discriminated against non-Christians, says a volunteer who intends to complain to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. Ashu Solo, a member of the city\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-threatens-human-rights-complaint-after-public-prayer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[437,2049,611,1398],"class_list":["post-16281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-ashu-solo","tag-atheism","tag-city-of-saskatoon","tag-saskatchewan-human-rights-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}