{"id":193,"date":"2010-07-06T00:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T00:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/fourth-of-july-religion-news-roundup.html"},"modified":"2010-07-06T00:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T00:44:22","slug":"fourth-of-july-religion-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/fourth-of-july-religion-news-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July Religion News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my pick for the top five religion news links related to America&#8217;s Independence Day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/faith\/49829475-142\/nation-christian-founders-says.html.csp\">Nation&#8217;s founders: How religious were they?<\/a> (Salt Lake Tribune)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2010\/07\/independence-day-july-4-muslim-islam-freedom\/1?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)\">If government picked who can worship here, what would your faith be &#8216;in&#8217;?<\/a> (USA Today)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/?p=38011\">Happy Atheist &#8212; I Mean Independence &#8212; Day <\/a>(GetReligion)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/2879\/culture_wars_in_school:_a_july_4_reflection\/\">Culture Wars in School: A July 4 Reflection <\/a>(Religion Dispatches)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/04\/opinion\/04fishkoff.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Red, White and Kosher <\/a>(New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a faith-and-freedom&nbsp;bonus,&nbsp;check out&nbsp;last week&#8217;s Religion News Service feature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/index.php?\/rnstext\/can_sikhs_hindus_get_elected_without_converting\/\">&#8220;Can Sikhs, Hindus Get Elected Without Converting?&#8221; <\/a>(The prominent examples of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley may suggest &#8220;no,&#8221; but FYI, my Indian American husband has always said that the big wave of immigrants came with science\/technology expertise, then their kids have branched out into business and the arts, and the next generation will get into politics. In other words, ask again later.)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my pick for the top five religion news links related to America&#8217;s Independence Day: Nation&#8217;s founders: How religious were they? (Salt Lake Tribune) If government picked who can worship here, what would your faith be &#8216;in&#8217;? (USA Today) Happy Atheist &#8212; I Mean Independence &#8212; Day (GetReligion)&nbsp; Culture Wars in School: A July 4&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fourth of July Religion News Roundup - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/07\/fourth-of-july-religion-news-roundup.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fourth of July Religion News Roundup - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s my pick for the top five religion news links related to America&#8217;s Independence Day: Nation&#8217;s founders: How religious were they? 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