{"id":56107,"date":"2016-10-24T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ashers_bakery_loses_appeal_in_case_requiring_them_to_make_a_cake_supporting\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T22:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T22:00:50","slug":"ashers_bakery_loses_appeal_in_case_requiring_them_to_make_a_cake_supporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56107","title":{"rendered":"Ashers bakery loses appeal in case requiring them to make a cake supporting same-sex marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashers managing director Daniel McArthur said he and his family were \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d\u009d with the ruling .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf equality law means people can be punished for politely refusing to support other people\u2019s causes then equality law needs to change. This ruling undermines democratic freedom, it undermines religious freedom, and it undermines free speech,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gay rights activist Peter Tatchell said the \u201cverdict is a defeat for freedom of expression\u201d\u009d and could set a \u201cdangerous, authoritarian precedent\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough I strongly disagree with Ashers\u2019 opposition to marriage equality, in a free society neither they nor anyone else should be compelled to facilitate a political idea that they oppose,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/crime-and-law\/ashers-bakery-loses-bert-and-ernie-gay-cake-appeal-1.2841186\">Read it all<\/a> from the Irish Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashers managing director Daniel McArthur said he and his family were \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d\u009d with the ruling . \u201cIf equality law means people can be punished for politely refusing to support other people\u2019s causes then equality law needs to change. This<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56107\">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":[39,40,50,175,582,589,149,199,168,325,114,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56107","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=56107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}