{"id":3317,"date":"2020-03-02T12:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/barr-says-militant-secularists-are-squelching\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:51:33","slug":"barr-says-militant-secularists-are-squelching","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/barr-says-militant-secularists-are-squelching\/","title":{"rendered":"Barr Says \u2018Militant Secularists\u2019 Are Squelching Religion"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent radio interview, Attorney General William Barr asserted that a band of \u201cmilitant secularists\u201d is trying to drive religion out of American public life.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan\u2019s SiriusXM radio show on Jan. 29, Barr insisted that America\u2019s founders viewed religion as necessary for a free people and added, \u201cThe reason they felt they could grant so much freedom in the Constitution and only provide for limited government was because they felt that religion was there and the people were religious people who could largely govern themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[109],"cs_article_type":[157],"class_list":["post-3317","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-march-2020-church-state","cs_article_type-au-bulletin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3317","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\/3317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}