{"id":6333,"date":"2023-10-05T13:09:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/baptists-blast-gov-greg-abbott-for-trying-to-co-opt-church-services-to-push-vouchers\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T18:09:51","slug":"baptists-blast-gov-greg-abbott-for-trying-to-co-opt-church-services-to-push-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/05\/baptists-blast-gov-greg-abbott-for-trying-to-co-opt-church-services-to-push-vouchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptists blast Gov. Greg Abbott for trying to &#8216;co-opt&#8217; church services to push vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s call for pastors to help him push his controversial school voucher plan\u00a0from the pulpit has drawn scorn from the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), whose leaders accuse him of trying to \u201cco-opt a Sunday morning time of worship.\u201d In an open letter posted Wednesday, 21 past and present BGCT leaders railed against Abbott&#8217;s so-called \u201cSchool Choice Sunday&#8221; initiative, which asked Texas faith leaders to tell their partitioners to support school vouchers. The Republican governor&#8217;s request violates the separation of church and state, the leaders argue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s call for pastors to help him push his controversial school voucher plan\u00a0from the pulpit has drawn scorn from the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), whose leaders accuse him of trying to \u201cco-opt a Sunday morning time of worship.\u201d In an open letter posted Wednesday, 21 past and present BGCT leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}