{"id":138767,"date":"2019-05-14T00:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138767"},"modified":"2019-05-14T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:10:19","slug":"the-banning-of-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/the-banning-of-segregation.html","title":{"rendered":"The Banning of Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brown v. Board of Education\u2014Supreme Court found segregated schools unconstitutional 65 years ago this week: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b2Li6CKViM\">pic.twitter.com\/b2Li6CKViM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeschlossDC\/status\/1127939869995610113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RT @BeschlossDC: Brown v. Board of Education\u2014Supreme Court found segregated schools unconstitutional 65 years ago this week: https:\/\/t.co\/b\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This week we commemorate the banning of &#8220;separate but [though it never was] equal&#8221; as a dodge to allow segregation.<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, remember back when claims of &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; (as some folk used to defend &#8220;the Biblical separation of the races&#8221;) as an excuse for discrimination (racial discrimination in particular) were laughed out of court?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I get nostalgic for those days, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a nation we once stood against discrimination, even when dressed up as &#8220;religious freedom&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,109,108,740,378,8],"tags":[1850,723,1849],"class_list":["post-138767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","category-church-state","category-history","category-race-racism","category-intolerance-persecution","category-zt-pc","tag-discrimination","tag-nt","tag-religousfreedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137364,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/religious-freedom-is-not-just-about-discriminating-against-the-gays.html","url_meta":{"origin":138767,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Religious Freedom&quot; is not just about discriminating against The Gays","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Oct-18 5:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's about discriminating against everyone else.And, in the case of Miracle Hill Ministries, that means not letting anyone mentor or foster children in their care -- for which they get oodles of state money -- who isn't a (straight) Protestant Christian who's able to offer a proper testimony from their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127506,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/cake-baker-is-still-guilty-of-unlawful-discrimination.html","url_meta":{"origin":138767,"position":1},"title":"Cake baker is (still) guilty of unlawful discrimination","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Aug-15 12:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Colorado Court of Appeals upheld (again) the ruling that a Lakewood baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple wanting to celebrate their (Massachussetts) wedding is guilty of discrimination under Colorado law.'The appeals court wrote that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act \"does not compel Masterpiece to support\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137722,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/the-trump-administration-will-protect-religious-discrimination-by-health-care-workers.html","url_meta":{"origin":138767,"position":2},"title":"The Trump administration will protect religious discrimination by health care workers","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Jan-19 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Think those lesbians are nasty sinners who are going to fry in hell so why should you have to provide nursing services to them? 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