{"id":25306,"date":"2024-11-02T05:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T12:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25306"},"modified":"2024-11-02T05:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T12:10:04","slug":"deion-sanders-faces-attack-from-anti-religion-group-over-team-chaplain-but-legal-expert-says-hes-within-his-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/deion-sanders-faces-attack-from-anti-religion-group-over-team-chaplain-but-legal-expert-says-hes-within-his-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders Faces Attack from Anti-Religion Group Over Team Chaplain, But Legal Expert Says He\u2019s Within His Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado football coach and NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders has found himself in the crosshairs of an anti-religion group, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), after having a pastor pray over his team following a recent victory. The FFRF issued\u00a0<a href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/ffrf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Colorado-University-Athletics-CO-CORA-Request-LTR-2.pdf\">a four-page letter<\/a>\u00a0condemning Sanders\u2019 actions, accusing him of unconstitutional religious activities for allowing Pastor Dewey Smith to pray with the team after their September 22 win against Baylor University.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/10\/deion-sanders-faces-attack-from-anti-religion-group-over-team-chaplain-but-legal-expert-says-hes-within-his-rights.html\">beliefnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado football coach and NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders has found himself in the crosshairs of an anti-religion group, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), after having a pastor pray over his team following a recent victory. The FFRF issued\u00a0a four-page letter\u00a0condemning Sanders\u2019 actions, accusing him of unconstitutional religious activities for allowing Pastor Dewey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/deion-sanders-faces-attack-from-anti-religion-group-over-team-chaplain-but-legal-expert-says-hes-within-his-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deion Sanders Faces Attack from Anti-Religion Group Over Team Chaplain, But Legal Expert Says He\u2019s Within His Rights<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Aa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25307,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25306\/revisions\/25307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}