{"id":3241,"date":"2020-07-01T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/religious-freedom-and-racial\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:12:14","slug":"religious-freedom-and-racial","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/religious-freedom-and-racial\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom And Racial Justice: A Critical Nexus"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 1, President Donald Trump used religion to advance a racist agenda. The admin\u00adistration deployed tear gas and flash grenades to clear a crowd \u2013 many of them black and brown people \u2013 who were peacefully protesting racist police brutality. They were driven away by force so Trump could pose for a photo op (while holding a Bible upside down) in front of a church near the White House.<\/p>\n<p>This event, sadly, is just the most current instance in a long pattern of the government using religion to justify racism. I will share but a few examples:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[105],"cs_article_type":[159],"class_list":["post-3241","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-july-august-2020-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-perspective"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3241","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\/3241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3241"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}