{"id":3221,"date":"2018-06-23T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2018-06-25T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:54:08","slug":"restaurants-and-bakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Restaurants and Bakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you firmly believe a baker should be able to refuse to bake for same-sex weddings, how can you think a restaurant owner us wrong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/sarah-sanders-says-red-hen-virginia-restaurant-owner-told-her-to-leave-2018-06-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to\u00a0eject the face of the Trump White House<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not discrimination if you object to the specific actions of an individual &#8211; that&#8217;s an opinion. Were restaurants to wholesale refuse to provide service to anyone who works under the Executive Branch (hard to ascertain that subset of people, but pretend) that\u00a0<em>might<\/em> be discrimination based on political affiliation. But if a baker&#8217;s free speech \/ religion rights permit refusing service to individuals who wish to marry someone of the same gender &#8230; how do free speech \/ religion rights\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>permit refusing service to Republicans as a whole?<\/p>\n<p>The problem seems to be, again, people conflate the freedom from government enacted punishment with freedom from\u00a0<em>consequences<\/em>. You have the right to assemble and spew whatever white supremacist rubbish you want. But you may find yourself fired. Or court marshaled. Or ostracized in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you firmly believe a baker should be able to refuse to bake for same-sex weddings, how can you think a restaurant owner us wrong to\u00a0eject the face of the Trump White House? It&#8217;s not discrimination if you object to the specific actions of an individual &#8211; that&#8217;s an opinion. Were restaurants to wholesale refuse &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[613],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-different-when-its-your-own"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}