{"id":2448,"date":"2016-04-03T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2016-04-03T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T14:36:17","slug":"north-carolina-attorney-general-refuses-to-defend-religious-freedom-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2448","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Attorney General refuses to defend religious freedom law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/north-carolina-attorney-general-wont-defend-anti-gay-law\">has refused this week <\/a>to defend the state&#8217;s new religious freedom law in court because he opposes the law and wishes to see it repealed.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cooper will not be defending the law, he is still named as a defendant in current and future lawsuits because of his official position as attorney general. Cooper will be challenging current North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory this fall for the governorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (D) has refused this week to defend the state&#8217;s new religious freedom law in court because he opposes the law and wishes to see it repealed. Although Cooper will not be defending the law, he is still named as a defendant in current and future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[534,370,106,108,107,679],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-glbt-discrimination","tag-glbt-rights","tag-north-carolina","tag-pat-mccrory","tag-religious-freedom","tag-roy-cooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}