{"id":178593,"date":"2018-10-19T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/19\/south-carolina-slavery-sedition-and-now-state-sanctioned-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:20:00","slug":"south-carolina-slavery-sedition-and-now-state-sanctioned-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/19\/south-carolina-slavery-sedition-and-now-state-sanctioned-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina: Slavery, Sedition, and Now State Sanctioned Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Specifically, South Carolina is <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/10\/19\/south-carolina-foster-parent-discrimination-miracle-hill-ministries\/\">outsourcing foster parenting to a religious non-profit that refuses to deal with non-Christians<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Trump administration is considering whether to grant a South Carolina request that would effectively allow faith-based foster care agencies in the state the ability to deny Jewish parents from fostering children in its network. The argument, from the state and from the agency, is that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act should not force a Protestant group to work with Jewish people if it violates a tenet of their faith. <\/p>\n<p>The case being made by South Carolina is an extension of the debate around RFRA, which is more commonly associated with discrimination against LGBTQ people, but by no means applies exclusively to that group. <\/p>\n<p>If granted, the exemption would allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a Protestant social service agency working in the state\u2019s northwest region, to continue receiving federal dollars while \u201crecruiting Christian foster families,\u201d which it has been doing since <a href=\"https:\/\/miraclehill.org\/how-we-help\/childrens-home\/foster-care\/\">1988<\/a>, according to its website. That discrimination would apply not just to Jewish parents, but also to parents who are Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian, atheist, agnostic or other some other non-Protestant Christian denomination.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really had enough with how the local, state, and federal government coddle these Talibaptist whack-a-doodles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, South Carolina is outsourcing foster parenting to a religious non-profit that refuses to deal with non-Christians: The Trump administration is considering whether to grant a South Carolina request that would effectively allow faith-based foster care agencies in the state the ability to deny Jewish parents from fostering children in its network. The argument, from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[546,506,368,439,380,508],"class_list":["post-178593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antisemitism","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-religion","tag-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}