{"id":7736,"date":"2009-05-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/20\/trinidad-and-tobago-s-queen-s-medal-unlawful-for-being-too-christian\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:00:00","slug":"trinidad-and-tobago-s-queen-s-medal-unlawful-for-being-too-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/20\/trinidad-and-tobago-s-queen-s-medal-unlawful-for-being-too-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s Medal Unlawful For Being Too Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/defence\/5296757\/Queens-medal-unlawful-for-being-too-Christian.html\">www.telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">TRINIDAD, May 8, 2009: Ruling on a case brought by the Muslims and Hindus of Trinidad and Tobago, the Privy Council has ruled that the Trinity Cross, a national medal of honor, is unconstitutional because its Christian symbolism violates the nation&#8217;s right to equality and freedom of belief. The award, initiated 40 years ago for distinguished service and bravery, will be withdrawn; but the 62 individuals already awarded the cross will retain it.<\/p>\n<p>In the Privy Council judgement, Lord Hope of Craighead said the Trinity Cross was &#8220;perceived by Hindus and Muslims living in Trinidad and Tobago as an overtly Christian symbol both in name and in substance.&#8221; He said that it breached the islands&#8217; Constitution of 1976.<\/p>\n<p>A parliamentary review of British honors has recommended streamlining the system with new titles that have no reference to Christian saints or symbols.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.telegraph.co.uk TRINIDAD, May 8, 2009: Ruling on a case brought by the Muslims and Hindus of Trinidad and Tobago, the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}