{"id":7808,"date":"2015-09-13T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T08:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2015-12-03T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T07:23:26","slug":"2015-09-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-09-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear and Equal Choice of Secular Recovery Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Byron Kerr<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>September 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been a march of unanimity by every high court in the U.S., ruling that 12-Step support programs are &#8220;inherently religious.&#8221; The treatment industry and local governments ignore these rulings in violation of the First Amendment, and continue to promote substance abuse treatment that exclusively coerces or compels people into inherently religious 12-Step programs. Byron Kerr is extremely active with LifeRing Secular Recovery (http:\/\/lifering.org), and currently serves as the Chair of the LifeRing Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/139982310\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/139982310\">Humanist Community Forum (2015-09-13): Clear and Equal Choice of Secular Recovery Support (Byron Kerr)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron Kerr September 13, 2015 There has been a march of unanimity by every high court in the U.S., ruling that 12-Step support programs are &#8220;inherently religious.&#8221; The treatment industry and local governments ignore these rulings in violation of the First Amendment, and continue to promote substance abuse treatment that exclusively coerces or compels people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2015-09-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clear and Equal Choice of Secular Recovery Support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7833,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}