{"id":47166,"date":"2016-08-10T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/english-statement-by-rev-samuel-rodriguez-president-of-national-hispanic-christian-leadership-conference-nhclc-regarding-the-amendment-of-california-bill-sb-1146\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T19:14:40","slug":"declaracion-del-reverendo-samuel-rodriguez-presidente-de-la-conferencia-nacional-de-liderazgo-cristiano-hispano-nhclc-sobre-la-enmienda-de-la-ley-del-senado-de-california-1146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/declaracion-del-reverendo-samuel-rodriguez-presidente-de-la-conferencia-nacional-de-liderazgo-cristiano-hispano-nhclc-sobre-la-enmienda-de-la-ley-del-senado-de-california-1146\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, President of National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), Regarding the Amendment of California Bill SB 1146"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 10, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Rev. <span class=\"xn-person\">Samuel Rodriguez<\/span>, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the world&#8217;s largest Hispanic Christian organization, representing millions of Evangelicals worldwide, today made the following statement regarding the decision of Sen. <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricardo Lara<\/span> (D-<span class=\"xn-location\">Bell Gardens<\/span>) to amend <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> bill SB 1146:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Religious liberty stands as the quintessential firewall again secular totalitarianism. Accordingly, we are grateful that Sen. <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricardo Lara<\/span> modified the legislation of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> Senate Bill 1146. Without a doubt, the unmodified version would have jeopardized Christian institutions and egregiously penalized all students of faith, especially Latino and African-American individuals. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As an organization committed to fighting all vestiges of intolerance, bigotry, discrimination and hatred, we hope and pray that future legislative proposals will engage the faith community in a viable conversation that will protect the rights of all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg5076left\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg5076left\" title=\"National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference logo.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference logo.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnvar\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO\"\/><\/div>\n<p><i>The\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhclc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>NHCLC<\/i><\/a><i> serves as a representative voice for the more than 100 million Hispanic Evangelicals assembled in over 40,000 U.S. churches and hundreds of thousands of additional congregations spread worldwide throughout the Spanish-speaking diaspora. Seeking to reconcile evangelist <span class=\"xn-person\">Billy Graham&#8217;s<\/span> message of salvation with Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s<\/span> march of prophetic activism, the NHCLC emphasizes &#8220;7 Directives&#8221; of Life, Family, Compassionate Evangelism, Stewardship, Justice, Education and Youth. For additional information, visit\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhclc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><i>http:\/\/www.nhclc.org<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/photos.prnewswire.com\/prnh\/20120912\/CL72800LOGO<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Aug. 10, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Rev. <span class=\"xn-person\">Samuel Rodriguez<\/span>, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), the world&#8217;s largest Hispanic Christian organization, representing millions of Evangelicals worldwide, today made the following statement regarding the decision of Sen. <span class=\"xn-person\">Ricardo Lara<\/span> (D-<span class=\"xn-location\">Bell Gardens<\/span>) to amend &lt;span&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}