{"id":42559,"date":"2018-01-05T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T03:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42559"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:47:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T05:47:51","slug":"religious-exemptions-arent-special-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/05\/religious-exemptions-arent-special-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Religious Exemptions Aren\u2019t Special Privileges&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42615\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stephaniebarclay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stephaniebarclay.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stephaniebarclay-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/stephaniebarclay-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>Some astute writing from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becketlaw.org\/staff\/stephanie-barclay\/\">Stephanie Barclay<\/a> of the Becket Fund, as published at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2017\/12\/20609\/\">The Witherspoon Institute<\/a> [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Supreme Court has consistently held that a <strong>government\u2019s desire to protect people from emotional harm<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>does not constitute a compelling government interest<\/strong>&#8230;The <strong>Court has protected<\/strong> speech deeply hurtful to the dignity of others, including <strong>protesters at the funeral<\/strong> of a Marine killed in action with signs that say things like \u201cGod Hates Fags\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Court has correctly explained that any other result would \u201ceffectively empower a majority to silence dissidents simply as a matter of personal predilections.\u201d<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These are not simply hypothetical thought experiments. After <!--more-->the recent neo-Nazi demonstrations in Charlottesville, a swarm of <strong>businesses reacted by refusing to continue providing services<\/strong> to white supremacist organizations (including Google, Airbnb, Uber, and PayPal). And in Masterpiece, the Colorado Commission allowed three bakers (including LGBT business owners) to <strong>refuse a religious customer\u2019s request<\/strong> to create custom cakes with religious messages criticizing same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Commission also admitted that a baker could decline to create a cake with a design or symbol that was \u201coffensive,\u201d<\/strong> including \u201ca white-supremacist message for the Aryan Nations church,\u201d or \u201ca religious group\u2019s request for a cake denigrating the Koran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>If one thinks that any of these businesses are justified in denying their services to groups or events to which they object, then one must acknowledge that the government does not have an unassailable interest in coercing any product or service that is already offered to the public<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some astute writing from Stephanie Barclay of the Becket Fund, as published at The Witherspoon Institute [emphasis added]: The Supreme Court has consistently held that a government\u2019s desire to protect people from emotional harm&#8230;does not constitute a compelling government interest&#8230;The Court has protected speech deeply hurtful to the dignity of others, including protesters at the funeral of a Marine killed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[442,149,6459,2,10,171,6488,457,4471],"class_list":["post-42559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-homosexual","tag-marines","tag-masterpiece-cakeshop","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-stephanie-barclay","tag-supreme-court","tag-witherspoon-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}