Groups propose religious freedom amendment – The Denver Post<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFocus on the Family leads a coalition seeking a constitutional amendment prohibiting state government from burdening the religious freedom of a person or religious organization.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shorter version: Focus on the Family wants conservative Christian churches and individuals to be able to do whatever the hell they damn want — hire, fire, build, tear down, discriminate, slander, isolate, bully, whatever — and use their "sincerely held religious belief" as a shield to be allowed to do so. I'll note that the … Continue reading “But some religions are more equal than others”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128677,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/by-their-conference-hosts-you-shall-know-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":26893,"position":0},"title":"By their conference hosts you shall know them","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Nov-15 9:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I can only assume, by accepting the invitation and taking the stage with a radical anti-gay theocrat like Kevin Swanson, is Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee, and Ted Cruze either:a. 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