{"id":40959,"date":"2017-03-31T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40959"},"modified":"2017-03-31T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T22:07:52","slug":"grave-assault-religious-liberty-california-state-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/03\/grave-assault-religious-liberty-california-state-legislature.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Grave Assault on Religious Liberty&#8221; by the California State Legislature"},"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_40960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40960\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/California_State_Capital_Sacramento_February_2011_-_panoramio.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40960\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40960\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/03\/California_State_Capital_Sacramento_February_2011_-_panoramio.jpg\" alt=\"The Capitol of California.\" width=\"597\" height=\"398\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California State Capitol in Sacramento (Wikimedia Commons photo by Kevin.Daniels)<br>I believe that I may have told the story of being given a tour of Sacramento quite a few years ago (I hadn\u2019t been there in a long time) by someone who had hosted me the night before for a lecture to the Sacramento chapter of the BYU Alumni Association. \u201cOver on the right is Sutter\u2019s Fort,\u201d he would say. \u201cAnd that\u2019s x, and that\u2019s y.\u201d As we approached the capitol building, without the slightest variation in tone, he said, \u201cAnd coming up on the left is the headquarters of the state\u2019s largest criminal syndicate.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/essential\/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-an-anti-discrimination-measure-or-blow-1490826757-htmlstory.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cAnti-discrimination measure or blow to religious freedom? California bill sparks debate on employer codes of conduct\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>California Family Council: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiafamily.org\/2017\/new-bill-bans-religious-pro-life-organizations-from-requiring-employees-to-be-pro-life-in-practice\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cNew Bill Bans Religious and Pro-Life Organizations from Requiring Employees to Be Pro-Life in Practice\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David French, in <em>National Review<\/em>: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/446243\/californias-abortion-obsessed-progressives-contemplate-grave-assault-religious-liberty\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cCalifornia\u2019s Abortion-Obsessed Progressives Contemplate a Grave Assault on Religious Liberty\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should the Church Educational System have the right to dismiss an adulterous Institute teacher? \u00a0To fire him if he impregnates someone and then secures an abortion for her?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Los Angeles Times: \u00a0\u201cAnti-discrimination measure or blow to religious freedom? California bill sparks debate on employer codes of conduct\u201d \u00a0 California Family Council: \u00a0\u201cNew Bill Bans Religious and Pro-Life Organizations from Requiring Employees to Be Pro-Life in Practice\u201d \u00a0 David French, in National Review: \u00a0\u201cCalifornia\u2019s Abortion-Obsessed Progressives Contemplate a Grave Assault on Religious [&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-40959","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>&quot;A Grave Assault on Religious Liberty&quot; by the California State Legislature<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; Los Angeles Times: \u00a0&quot;Anti-discrimination measure or blow to religious freedom? 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