{"id":673,"date":"2015-07-06T15:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/?p=673"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:31:18","slug":"oregon-silences-bakers-who-refused-to-make-cake-for-gay-wedding-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Oregon silences bakers who refused to make cake for gay wedding | Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2015\/07\/06\/state-silences-bakers-who-refused-to-bake-cake-for-lesbians.html\"><img class=\" size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/1436192344847.jpg?w=614\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>It is open season on Catholics and Evangelical Christians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2015\/07\/06\/state-silences-bakers-who-refused-to-bake-cake-for-lesbians.html\">Oregon silences bakers who refused to make cake for gay wedding | Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really getting tired of being right on things like this. \u00a0The basics of this story is that the bakers were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake the wedding cake for a gay wedding. \u00a0From everything I&#8217;ve been able to learn &#8211; and I&#8217;ve followed this story since it originally broke, this particular case, at least, is a real religious objection.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fine, though, Oregon slapped a gag order on the couple\u00a0<strong><em>prohibiting them from even talking about the case<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Yes, not only the religious liberty side of the First Amendment has been compromised, but their free speech rights have been excluded as well. \u00a0In this case, there is no compelling interest for shutting them up\u00a0<em>except that<\/em> it is politically embarrassing for the State of Oregon. \u00a0This is the precise reason that the First Amendment exists.<\/p>\n<p>That we even know about this, means that they have obviously violated the order. \u00a0The good news is that according to the couple God is providing for them. \u00a0However, they have had to ask themselves will they be willing to be jailed for their belief in God. \u00a0Their answer is, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; \u00a0What&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is open season on Catholics and Evangelical Christians. Source: Oregon silences bakers who refused to make cake for gay wedding | Fox News I&#8217;m really getting tired of being right on things like this. \u00a0The basics of this story is that the bakers were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake the wedding cake for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[90,79,87,93,31,40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ymfK-aR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristiangeek.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}