{"id":1001306,"date":"2008-07-17T00:04:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001306"},"modified":"2008-07-17T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T05:04:21","slug":"the-freedom-to-oppress-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/politics\/2008\/07\/17\/the-freedom-to-oppress-others\/","title":{"rendered":"The Freedom to Oppress Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite a quote. See if you can figure out which word I changed, and if it really makes a difference. <\/p>\n<blockquote source='http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/news\/religion\/2008\/07\/16\/gay_marriage_legalization_could_be_costly_for_religious_liberty,_legal_experts_say'><p>Diament and other panelists cited a number of scenarios in which Americans&#8217; religious rights might be infringed on when they clash with legal recognition of &#8220;interracial marriage.&#8221; They questioned if accommodations or exemptions would be permitted for religious adherents or institutions in the following situations, among others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> County clerks who oppose issuing marriage licenses to interracial couples.<\/li>\n<li> Employees who disapprove of diversity training programs that endorse &#8220;interracial marriage.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> Insurance company workers who do not want to sell policies or process claims for interracial couples&#8217; partner benefits.<\/li>\n<li> Owners of small hotels and bed-and-breakfast inns who refuse to serve interracial couples.<\/li>\n<li> Lawyers who decline to provide estate planning for interracial couples.<\/li>\n<li> Psychologists and psychiatrists who refuse to counsel interracial couples. <\/li>\n<li> Doctors who will not provide some services, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), for interracial couples.<\/li>\n<li> Religious colleges that will not open married student housing to interracial couples.<\/li>\n<li> Religious institutions that refuse requests from interracial couples to hold wedding receptions in their buildings.<\/li>\n<li> Christian bookstores and other parachurch organizations that decline spousal benefits for &#8220;interracial marriage&#8221; partners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Original version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/news\/religion\/2008\/07\/16\/gay_marriage_legalization_could_be_costly_for_religious_liberty,_legal_experts_say\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Will Christians be complaining that their religious freedom is imperiled because they&#8217;re no longer allowed to burn witches at the stake or put heretics to the rack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not quite a quote. See if you can figure out which word I changed, and if it really makes a difference. Diament and other panelists cited a number of scenarios in which Americans&#8217; religious rights might be infringed on when they clash with legal recognition of &#8220;interracial marriage.&#8221; They questioned if accommodations or exemptions would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}