{"id":2007,"date":"2007-03-14T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=252"},"modified":"2007-03-14T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T12:00:22","slug":"libraries-religion-and-the-supremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/libraries-religion-and-the-supremes.html","title":{"rendered":"Libraries, Religion, and the Supremes???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <font size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca9.uscourts.gov\/\">US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metnews.com\/articles\/2007\/fait031207.htm\">declined to revisit the question of church services in library meeting rooms<\/a> (see my earlier post <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=94\">here<\/a>), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancedefensefund.org\/news\/pressrelease.aspx?cid=4036\">case is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Will it actually go before the high court?\u00a0 Depends on whether the justices feel that there are issues in this case that they need to review.\u00a0 This could turn into a defining case for the limits and freedoms of religious expression in government facilities; or they can let the ruling stand as is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">You can find the full text of the ruling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telladf.org\/UserDocs\/FaithCenterRuling.pdf\">here<\/a> (in Pdf format).\u00a0 The library&#8217;s\u00a0meeting room policy can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccclib.org\/policies\/MeetingRmPolicy.pdf\">here<\/a> (also in Pdf).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2007\/03\/14\/adf-attorneys-to-appeal-california-equal-access-library-case-to-us-supreme-court\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has declined to revisit the question of church services in library meeting rooms (see my earlier post here), and the case is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Will it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/libraries-religion-and-the-supremes.html\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2943,2948],"tags":[3345,3346,3127],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-news","tag-church-services","tag-us-supreme-court","tag-us-court-of-appeals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-wn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}