{"id":25984,"date":"2015-07-06T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25984"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:16:19","slug":"the-double-standard-at-work-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25984","title":{"rendered":"The Double Standard At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I posted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25948\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> about Aaron and Melissa Klein, who ran a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bakery\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bakery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">bakery<\/a> called Sweet Cakes by Melissa. They were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Same-sex relationship\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Same-sex_relationship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">lesbian couple<\/a>\u2019s wedding. They were also ordered \u201cto <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cease and desist\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cease_and_desist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">cease and desist<\/a> from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published, circulated, issued or displayed, any communication, notice, advertisement or sign of any kind to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services or privileges of a place of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Public accommodations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_accommodations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">public accommodation<\/a> will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination will be made against, any person on account of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sexual orientation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexual_orientation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">sexual orientation<\/a>.\u201d This occurred in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Government of Oregon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Government_of_Oregon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">State of Oregon<\/a>. I guess <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Michigan\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=44.34,-85.58&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=44.34,-85.58 (Michigan)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Michigan<\/a> doesn&#8217;t do things that way.<\/p>\n<p>This was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RgWIhYAtan4\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> on April 2nd of this year:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgWIhYAtan4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that same-sex marriage is legal, will <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Muslim\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muslim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Muslim<\/a> bakeries still be able to refuse to bake cakes for those weddings without any consequences?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday I posted an article about Aaron and Melissa Klein, who ran a bakery called Sweet Cakes by Melissa. They were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a lesbian couple\u2019s wedding. They were also ordered \u201cto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=25984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9182,1823,9172,9184,2520,2978,9183],"class_list":["post-25984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aaron-and-melissa-klein","tag-first-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution","tag-gag-order","tag-muslim-bakery","tag-oregon","tag-same-sex-marriage","tag-sweet-cakes-by-melissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25987,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25984\/revisions\/25987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}