{"id":10367,"date":"2017-07-15T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2017-07-15T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T11:50:10","slug":"another-good-day-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/07\/another-good-day-religious-liberty.html","title":{"rendered":"Another good day for religious liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Despite the hysterics, the actual courts seem to have fallen on the side of religious liberty more often than not. \u00a0We hear constant outcries that religious freedom is two steps from extinction. \u00a0I can\u2019t help but notice, however, that the courts are preserving religious liberty in many of the high profile cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/court-sides-with-ny-archdiocese-in-major-religious-liberty-decision-20832\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here is an example<\/a>. \u00a0It almost looks like the courts are walking that balance that liberalism was all about back in the day. \u00a0They\u2019re accepting the progressive interpretation of things such as marriage and homosexuality, but saying that people actually have the right to disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Not that there haven\u2019t been some attempts to say otherwise. \u00a0You\u2019ll always have people say a country isn\u2019t big enough for the two of us. \u00a0But the courts appear to be holding their own, and telling Americans that, as of now, America is big enough to allow us to agree to disagree.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the hysterics, the actual courts seem to have fallen on the side of religious liberty more often than not. \u00a0We hear constant outcries that religious freedom is two steps from extinction. \u00a0I can\u2019t help but notice, however, that the courts are preserving religious liberty in many of the high profile cases. 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