{"id":4977,"date":"2011-10-08T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-10-08T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T18:09:25","slug":"you-dont-get-to-ignore-the-law-just-because-you-believe-in-a-particular-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/you-dont-get-to-ignore-the-law-just-because-you-believe-in-a-particular-god\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t get to ignore the law just because you believe in a particular god"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This woman needs to be fired, and, actually, jailed. And stoned maybe.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, I get that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tough economy out there. Lots of people are taking jobs that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily optimal, like working at a fast food joint, cooking meth, or making YouTube videos. And not everyone is able to choose a job that is 100% in line with his or her morals, like a vegetarian flipping burgers, an ex-DEA agent cooking meth, or a normal human being making YouTube videos.<\/p>\n<p>Or like a fundamentalist Christian who is a town clerk in New York, where same-sex marriage was recently made legal.<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, there are people in New York who are refusing to approve the marriage licenses of same-sex couples because of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153religious freedom.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one now!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/2011\/10\/dear-theist-do-your-job-or-find-another\/\">Rebecca Watson has the story<\/a>, and a video you won&#8217;t want to miss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This woman needs to be fired, and, actually, jailed. And stoned maybe. You know, I get that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a tough economy out there. Lots of people are taking jobs that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily optimal, like working at a fast food joint, cooking meth, or making YouTube videos. And not everyone is able to choose a job &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/you-dont-get-to-ignore-the-law-just-because-you-believe-in-a-particular-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You don&#8217;t get to ignore the law just because you believe in a particular god<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[896,312],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ih","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}