{"id":29397,"date":"2015-03-30T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29397"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:17:07","slug":"are-your-religious-liberties-being-violated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/03\/are-your-religious-liberties-being-violated.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Religious Liberties Being Violated?"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29398\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/03\/Religious-Liberties-Violated.jpg\" alt=\"Religious Liberties Violated\" width=\"720\" height=\"342\"><\/p>\n<p>This chart is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rev-emily-c-heath\/how-to-determine-if-your-religious-liberty-is-being-threatened-in-10-questions_b_1845413.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an article in the\u00a0<em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Rev. Emily Heath of the United Church of Christ.\u00a0\u00a0That article deserves to be circulated again in response to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2015\/03\/lambda-legal-fact-checks-indiana-governors-statements-on-this-week-interview\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent laws<\/a> purporting to defend \u201creligious liberty\u201d but in fact in at least some instances defending the right of people to justify infringing on the liberties of others in the name of religion.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chart is based on an article in the\u00a0Huffington Post\u00a0by Rev. 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