{"id":27881,"date":"2012-05-12T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/apparently-arizona-believes-in-religious-discrimination-against-the-police.html"},"modified":"2012-05-12T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T03:03:00","slug":"apparently-arizona-believes-in-religious-discrimination-against-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/apparently-arizona-believes-in-religious-discrimination-against-the-police.html","title":{"rendered":"Apparently Arizona believes in religious discrimination against the police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently Arizona believes in religious discrimination against the police<\/b><\/p>\n

Arizona, not willing to let North Carolina win the week's award uncontested for "letting religious beliefs trump other people's rights and needs," enacted a new law:<\/p>\n

"Government shall not deny, revoke or suspend a person\u2019s professional or occupational license, certificate or registration for any of the following and the following are not unprofessional conduct: declining to provide or participate in providing any service that violates the person\u2019s sincerely held religious beliefs except performing the duties of a peace officer."<\/i><\/p>\n

So doctors, therapists, pharmacists, architects, engineers, anyone who gets a state license who decides that providing a service for you — prescribing or delivering a given drug, treating a particular condition, designing or building a particular building, cutting your hair, etc. — is against their "sincerely held" religious beliefs (because you're a slut, or a homosexual, or an atheist, or a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Catholic, or you're of a sinful color, or you want something that Pastor Bob last Sunday monrning said was sinful) don't have to worry about losing their state-provided licenses or being charged with "unprofessional conduct."<\/p>\n

But why include an exception for police officers? Should they be deprived of their religious freedom, too? I mean, maybe they're disgusted that Fred is gay — shouldn't they have the God-Given Religious Freedom to not bother investigating the mugging that Fred reported? Or if Susan is Jewish and wants to complain that her Christian husband stole their child during a custody dispute, shouldn't a good Christian police officer be able to tell her that since she's actually going to Hell, it's best the child be with its father?<\/p>\n

Why the hatred for the religious freedoms of police officers, Arizona?<\/p>\n

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Apparently Arizona believes in religious discrimination against the police Arizona, not willing to let North Carolina win the week's award uncontested for "letting religious beliefs trump other people's rights and needs," enacted a new law: "Government shall not deny, revoke or suspend a person\u2019s professional or occupational license, certificate or registration for any of the … Continue reading “Apparently Arizona believes in religious discrimination against the police”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25019,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/discrimination-of-conscience.html","url_meta":{"origin":27881,"position":0},"title":"Discrimination of conscience","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Jan-12 2:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Churches that become dependent on government money are forced to compromise their beliefs. 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