{"id":12891,"date":"2016-12-28T01:22:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T08:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=12891"},"modified":"2016-12-28T01:22:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T08:22:16","slug":"queering-the-shirt-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/12\/28\/queering-the-shirt-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Queering the Shirt, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A T-shirt maker who dared to decline to make a shirt that expressed a message contrary to his beliefs was told to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bake the cake<\/span> <em>print the shirt<\/em>, because the T-shirt expressed a <em>privileged<\/em> position about Gay Pride festivals, as <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/15\/queering-the-shirt\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously reported<\/a>. Since then, a circuit court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/04\/28\/christian-t-shirt-company-doesnt-have-to-print-gay-pride-festival-shirts-court-says\/?utm_term=.75bf8cb6c8b4\" target=\"_blank\">overturned<\/a> the ruling that there is a distinction between &#8220;choosing not to print a T-shirt because of the sexual orientation of a potential customer and choosing not to print a T-shirt because of its message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6877\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Gay-T-shirt-NAZI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Gay-T-shirt-NAZI.jpg 307w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Gay-T-shirt-NAZI-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;However, this ruling has been <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/12\/14\/this-small-business-owner-didnt-want-to-make-shirts-for-gay-pride-festival-now-hes-in-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">appealed<\/a> to the Kentucky Court of Appeals (an intermediate appellate court between the circuit court and the Kentucky Supreme Court).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The argument for forcing the T-shirt maker to <em>print the shirt<\/em>? According to the so-called Lexington Human Rights Commission:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;You can\u2019t separate the message from the discrimination. That\u2019s a red herring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Discrimination based on who one wants to screw is considered valid because it was argued that sexual orientation was unchangeable (unless you are straight, of course) and an innate characteristic. Declaring that a political <em>opinion<\/em> is unchangeable and innate thinking would mean that gay and lesbian individuals are incapable of thinking for themselves or forming their own opinion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why, it is so <em>natural<\/em> for gays and lesbians to agitate for particular political positions that obviously any gay or lesbian individual who dares to disagree is <em>mentally ill<\/em> and considered <em>aberrant<\/em>, with such aberrance needing to be corrected with shock therapy or a lobotomy&#8230; one presumes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Such is the fate for those who do not accept the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">divinely<\/span> <em>academically<\/em> revealed axiomatic Politically Correct truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Queering the Shirt Redux\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Why, it is so natural for gays and lesbians to agitate for particular political positions that obviously any gay or lesbian individual who dares to disagree is mentally ill and considered aberrant, with such aberrance needing to be corrected with shock therapy or a lobotomy... one presumes...\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Gay-T-shirt-NAZI.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A T-shirt maker who dared to decline to make a shirt that expressed a message contrary to his beliefs was told to bake the cake print the shirt, because the T-shirt expressed a privileged position about Gay Pride festivals, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2016\/12\/28\/queering-the-shirt-redux\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24,48],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12893,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions\/12893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}