{"id":43246,"date":"2017-07-04T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43246"},"modified":"2017-07-04T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T00:05:19","slug":"religious-freedom-discrimination-debate-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/religious-freedom-discrimination-debate-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Religious Freedom and Discrimination: Why the Debate Continues&#8221;"},"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_43247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43247\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/800px-NewEngland_Fall.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43247\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-43247\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/07\/800px-NewEngland_Fall.jpg\" alt=\"A church in New England\" width=\"596\" height=\"374\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The America represented in this Wikimedia CC photograph is under siege.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to be prepared for the battle that\u2019s raging and\u00a0that, in my judgment, will only\u00a0become worse over the next several years, this book might provide very important preparation:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/book-review-debating-religious-liberty-and-discrimination\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/book-review-debating-religious-liberty-and-discrimination<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It really is, in my view, a struggle for freedom and specifically for freedom of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What we once assumed to be set in stone \u2014 American religious liberty \u2014 is in more danger now than perhaps, generally speaking, it has been at any previous time in the history of the Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 For those who want to be prepared for the battle that\u2019s raging and\u00a0that, in my judgment, will only\u00a0become worse over the next several years, this book might provide very important preparation: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/book-review-debating-religious-liberty-and-discrimination \u00a0 It really is, in my view, a struggle for freedom and specifically for freedom of conscience. \u00a0 What we [&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-43246","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;Religious Freedom and Discrimination: Why the Debate Continues&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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