{"id":12720,"date":"2023-10-02T10:02:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.org\/?post_type=cs_article&#038;p=12720"},"modified":"2023-10-02T10:02:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:02:54","slug":"speaking-up-and-fighting-back-separation-of-church-and-state-is-under-sustained-assault-heres-why-i-remain-hopeful-anyway","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/speaking-up-and-fighting-back-separation-of-church-and-state-is-under-sustained-assault-heres-why-i-remain-hopeful-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking up and fighting back: Separation of church and state is under sustained assault. Here\u2019s why I remain hopeful anyway."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent eight weeks working in the Communications Department at Americans United this summer. During my tenure at AU, Christian Nationalist attacks were incessant; the Supreme Court ruled in favor of discrimination in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, book bans around the country have targeted LGBTQ+ voices, and a litany of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[192],"cs_article_type":[158],"class_list":["post-12720","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-october-2023-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-viewpoint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/12720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/12720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=12720"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=12720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}