{"id":17687,"date":"2021-11-30T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=17687"},"modified":"2021-11-30T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:31:49","slug":"polk-county-commissioners-approve-new-invocation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/11\/30\/polk-county-commissioners-approve-new-invocation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Commissioners approve new invocation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With assurance from its attorney, the Polk County Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to change its invocation policy&nbsp;despite opposition from a Central Florida atheist group.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1519912508579.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1519912508579.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/1519912508579-150x150.jpg 150w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting Jan. 1, invocations will be led by one of five chaplains who volunteer with the county&#8217;s fire rescue division. The county will no longer allow outside church leaders of various faith groups&nbsp;to lead a prayer or atheists to share a secular message, as has been the practice since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Names and faith backgrounds of each of the five chaplains who serve the county. Here&#8217;s the list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25baMurphy Hanley &#8211;&nbsp;non-denomination, faith<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25baSherri Grimes &#8211;&nbsp;Baptist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25baBill Dehart &#8211;&nbsp;non-denomination, Pentecostal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25baMike Zarle &#8211; Assembly of God&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25baPatrick Daughtery &#8211;&nbsp;ARP Pentecostal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read More at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theledger.com\/story\/news\/2021\/11\/30\/risking-litigation-polk-county-commission-approves-new-invocation-policy-opposition-central-florida\/8806101002\/?utm_source=theledger-Afternoon%20Update&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=baseline&amp;utm_term=hero&amp;utm_content=FLORIDA-LAKELAND-NLETTER04\">Ledger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With assurance from its attorney, the Polk County Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to change its invocation policy&nbsp;despite opposition from a Central Florida atheist group.&nbsp; Starting Jan. 1, invocations will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[1847],"class_list":["post-17687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-polk-county-commissioners-approve-new-invocation-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}