{"id":3328,"date":"2020-03-02T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/the-voluntary-principle-the-us-supreme-court-had-made\/"},"modified":"2020-03-02T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T17:17:15","slug":"the-voluntary-principle-the-us-supreme-court-had-made","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/the-voluntary-principle-the-us-supreme-court-had-made\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voluntary Principle: The U.S. Supreme Court Had Made It Clear There Can Be No Compulsion When It Comes To Religion In Public Schools"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has issued several landmark rulings on the issue of school-sponsored prayer in public schools. If there\u2019s a common thread running through these decisions, it\u2019s this: The high court has taken care to ensure the right of students to take part in non-disruptive, voluntary prayer is protected while striking down religious exercises that are sponsored by school officials or are coercive in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at the court\u2019s rulings in this important area:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[109],"cs_article_type":[160],"class_list":["post-3328","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-march-2020-church-state","cs_article_type-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/3328","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\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}