{"id":55583,"date":"2016-09-08T20:30:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/massachusetts_churches_may_be_covered_by_transgender_discrimination_bans_as\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T20:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:30:27","slug":"massachusetts_churches_may_be_covered_by_transgender_discrimination_bans_as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55583","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts: Churches may be covered by transgender discrimination bans as to \u201d\u02dcsecular events\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the official Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination\u2019s Gender Identity Guidance, just released last week:<\/p>\n<p>Even a church could be seen as a place of public accommodation if it holds a secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open to the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Now, churches hold events \u201copen to the general public\u201d\u009d all the time \u201d\u201d it\u2019s often how they seek new converts. And even church \u201csecular events,\u201d\u009d which I take it means events that don\u2019t involve overt worship, are generally viewed by the church as part of its ministry, and certainly as a means of the church modeling what it believes to be religiously sound behavior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/09\/08\/massachusetts-churches-may-be-covered-by-transgender-discrimination-bans-as-to-secular-events\/?utm_term=.eedd76648b3d\">Read it all<\/a> from Euguene Volokh at the Washington Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the official Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination\u2019s Gender Identity Guidance, just released last week: Even a church could be seen as a place of public accommodation if it holds a secular event, such as a spaghetti supper, that is open<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55583\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,209,168,114,437,435,123,184,151,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-multiculturalism-pluralism","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}