{"id":48224,"date":"2014-10-21T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48224"},"modified":"2014-10-19T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T00:59:00","slug":"why-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48224","title":{"rendered":"Why Worry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I discussed same-sex marriage with its proponents before last year, I pointed out that this would, inevitably, lead to the squashing of the First Amendment rights of those who don’t\u00a0<\/em>believe in it.<\/p>\n

“Pshaw”, they said, although not using that exact word. \u00a0“It’s written into the law; the state can’t come into the church and force people in church to perform a same-sex wedding in a church”.<\/p>\n

Which is mighty big of the state, and all, except for people of faith, it’s what happens outside of church that matters.<\/p>\n

Of course, the stories of photographers, bakers and florists who’ve been hauled into court by bitchy gays looking for test cases, looking to flog people into submission using public accomodation law, are all over the place.<\/p>\n

A town in Idaho is taking the next step; attacking not only a minister’s freedom of conscience and religion, but threatening his literal physical freedom<\/a>, for not bowing to the beast:<\/p>\n

The Idaho case involves Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel. Officials from Coeur d\u2019Alene, Idaho, told the couple that because the city has a non-discrimination statute that includes sexual orientation and gender identity, and because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Idaho\u2019s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the couple would have to officiate at same-sex weddings in their own chapel.<\/p>\n

The non-discrimination statute applies to all \u201cpublic accommodations,\u201d and the city views the chapel as a public accommodation.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a same-sex couple asked to be married by the Knapps, and the Knapps politely declined. The Knapps now face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My prediction: \u00a0within the decade, there will be litigation that seeks to place churches under “public accomodation” laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I discussed same-sex marriage with its proponents before last year, I pointed out that this would, inevitably, lead to the squashing of the First Amendment rights of those who don’t\u00a0believe in it. “Pshaw”, they said, although not using that exact word. \u00a0“It’s written into the law; the state can’t come into the church and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48274,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48224\/revisions\/48274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}