{"id":6167,"date":"2009-11-03T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2009-11-03T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T15:54:04","slug":"crucifixes-banned-in-italian-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/crucifixes-banned-in-italian-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucifixes banned in Italian schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8340411.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child&#8217;s right to freedom of religion.<\/p>\n<p>The case was brought by an Italian mother, Soile Lautsi, who wants to give her children a secular education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Soile Lautsi is so averse to her children seeing a crucifix in school, perhaps she should home-school them to ensure the expunging from their education of all vestiges of Christianity, even though it underpins the human rights to which she believes she is entitled.<\/p>\n<p>Or she could move to an explicitly secular state like North Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/crucifixes-banned-in-italian-schools\/\">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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[2267],"class_list":["post-6167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167","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=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}