{"id":931,"date":"2010-09-24T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/breaking-news-independent-islamic-republic-of-minnesota-arrests-bacon-eaters\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:13:00","slug":"breaking-news-independent-islamic-republic-of-minnesota-arrests-bacon-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/breaking-news-independent-islamic-republic-of-minnesota-arrests-bacon-eaters.html","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Independent Islamic Republic of Minnesota Arrests Bacon-Eaters"},"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>No, that headline doesn\u2019t reflect reality. But it sounds like the impression this Fox news report gives:<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W0vItJqpQ8U?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W0vItJqpQ8U?fs=1<\/a>\n<p>Someone I know sent the above clip to me, and I was astonished not by the events underlying it but the bigotry and misrepresentation in the reporting. In another recent post, I mentioned a bakery refusing to sell rainbow cupcakes to a gay organization. It isn\u2019t an instance of theocratic Biblical law being imposed, because they have not made legislation preventing bakeries statewide from selling rainbow cupcakes. It isn\u2019t imposition of rabbinic law if a meat company allows Jewish workers to do something other than process bacon. Why is this construed as reflecting a move to Sharia law? 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In another recent post, I mentioned a bakery refusing to sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","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>Breaking News: Independent Islamic Republic of Minnesota Arrests Bacon-Eaters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No, that headline doesn&#039;t reflect reality. 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