{"id":16908,"date":"2015-01-13T23:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16908"},"modified":"2015-01-13T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T06:20:05","slug":"dissent-may-or-may-not-be-permitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/dissent-may-or-may-not-be-permitted.html","title":{"rendered":"Dissent may or may not be permitted."},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16909\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/Backburning.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16909\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/Backburning.jpg\" alt=\"fighting a fire at Wikimedia\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How essential is it that firefighters hold Correct Views on same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know enough about this case to be able to come to a firm conclusion regarding it. \u00a0But it worries me. \u00a0It\u2019s certainly possible that a prominent and apparently quite successful government employee was fired for expressing his religious viewpoint. \u00a0If so, that will represent simply one more erosion of our tradition of free expression and religious liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/breaking-news\/church-takes-aim-at-atlanta-fire-chiefs-dismissal\/njk6d\/#__federated=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/news\/breaking-news\/church-takes-aim-at-atlanta-fire-chiefs-dismissal\/njk6d\/#__federated=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I don\u2019t know enough about this case to be able to come to a firm conclusion regarding it. \u00a0But it worries me. \u00a0It\u2019s certainly possible that a prominent and apparently quite successful government employee was fired for expressing his religious viewpoint. \u00a0If so, that will represent simply one more erosion of our tradition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dissent may or may not be permitted.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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