{"id":3008,"date":"2014-07-21T21:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2014-07-21T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T04:50:59","slug":"executive-order-gaily-darkens-usa-religious-freedom-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2014\/executive-order-gaily-darkens-usa-religious-freedom-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Order Gaily Darkens USA Religious Freedom Further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this how coexistence and tolerance work? <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama signed an executive order Monday barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity &#8212; ignoring the pleas of Christian and other faith leaders to include an exemption for religious organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to your passion and advocacy and the irrefutable rightness of your cause, our government \u2013- the government of the people, by the people and for the people -\u2013 will become just a little bit fairer,&#8221; the president told a gathering in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order would prevent Christian and other religious organizations with federal contracts from requiring workers to adhere to the tenets of their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\"><a href='http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2014\/07\/21\/obama-lgbt-executive-order-endangers-religious-liberty\/'>Obama&#8217;s LGBT Executive Order Endangers Religious Liberty<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author of the article (who also wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/God-Less-America-Stories-Traditional\/dp\/1621365913\/?tag=markroth-ac-20\" title=\"God Less America | Todd Starnes\">God Less America<\/a>) also includes this short paragraph later in the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That explains why a Christian baker in Colorado was ordered by a state commission to undergo re-education training after he declined to participate in a gay wedding celebration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Re-education training?<\/strong> \ud83d\ude2f Is that <em>really<\/em> the terminology used by a state commission in Colorado?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, <span class=\"verse\">&#8220;Honour the king,&#8221;<\/span> says the Bible.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the order include re-education training for violators?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,6,10,20],"tags":[640,39,903,580],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-noah","category-endangered-christians","category-religion","category-youve-been-warned","tag-homosexuality","tag-persecution","tag-president","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}