{"id":25091,"date":"2015-07-31T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=25091"},"modified":"2015-07-31T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T06:47:10","slug":"it-really-is-a-kind-of-war-you-know-and-religious-freedom-really-is-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/07\/it-really-is-a-kind-of-war-you-know-and-religious-freedom-really-is-under-siege.html","title":{"rendered":"It really is a kind of war, you know, and religious freedom really is under siege."},"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_25092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25092\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/07\/ReligiousFreedomStamp.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25092\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/07\/ReligiousFreedomStamp.jpg\" alt=\"Federal stamp from years ago.\" width=\"219\" height=\"328\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This three-cent stamp is obsolete.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/lgbt-grant-maker-wants-to-win-religious-liberty-fight-within-three-years-96064\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/lgbt-grant-maker-wants-to-win-religious-liberty-fight-within-three-years-96064\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are some crucial lines from the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cWe are at a crossroads where the choices we make will mean we will fight religious exemptions for two to three years or have a protracted twenty year struggle on our hands,\u201d Tim Sweeney told leading business executives and others attending the Out &amp; Equal Workplace Advocates executive forum, held in San Francisco in late March 2015. . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Bohnett has been an outspoken critic of religious groups who are not aligned with LGBT advocacy. In an Oct. 9, 2009 acceptance speech for the GLSEN Lifetime Achievement Award, he characterized Catholic, evangelical and Mormon leaders as \u201camong our greatest adversaries\u201d and said that \u201cevangelical and fundamentalist groups that teach homosexuality is a sin\u201d are those who \u201cstand in the way of fairness and equality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This thing is far from over. \u00a0Unless and until the dissenters surrender.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Victoria, British Columbia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/lgbt-grant-maker-wants-to-win-religious-liberty-fight-within-three-years-96064\/ \u00a0 Here are some crucial lines from the article: \u00a0 \u201cWe are at a crossroads where the choices we make will mean we will fight religious exemptions for two to three years or have a protracted twenty year struggle on our hands,\u201d Tim Sweeney told leading business executives and others attending the [&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-25091","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>It really is a kind of war, you know, and religious freedom really is under siege.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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