{"id":16523,"date":"2020-04-23T03:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16523"},"modified":"2020-04-23T03:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T10:16:06","slug":"quick-takes-woke-wars-no-male-artists-protected-vegan-beliefs-no-lgbt-right-to-your-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/04\/23\/quick-takes-woke-wars-no-male-artists-protected-vegan-beliefs-no-lgbt-right-to-your-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Woke Wars: No Male Artists; Protected Vegan Beliefs; No LGBT Right To Your Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Mother<\/span> <em>Government<\/em> may I or may I not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xmckWVPRaI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Apparently art is a tool of the Patriarchy, and the only way to fight it is to use public funds to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redstate.com\/alexparker\/2019\/11\/30\/baltimore-will-bought-less-citys-museum-art-announces-wont-buy-works-theyre-made-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">buy only art by women<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf you\u2019ve been wanting to appreciate art lately but\u2019ve been deterred by the genitals of people creating it, take heart: In order to fight the patriarchy, the Baltimore Museum of Art has made a promise \u2014 in 2020, they will refuse to purchase any composition if it was made by a guy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat\u2019s right: If you\u2019re a male artist, your masterpiece won\u2019t be welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Belief in the Bible is not a protected religious belief in the U.K., but \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/ethical-veganism-is-now-a-protected-belief-in-the-u-k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ethical veganism<\/a>\u201d is\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYesterday, I noted a potential test case in British employment law. Jordi Casamitjana brought his former employers, the League Against Cruel Sports, to court because \u2014 he argued \u2014 he was fired for his vegan beliefs. His employer claims it was gross misconduct: Casamitjana allegedly violated company policy by revealing to other workers that they had invested in companies involved in animal testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToday, Casamitjana won his case. This means that under Britain\u2019s 2010 Equality Act, \u2018ethical veganism\u2019 is protected, as is climate change. Still, belief in the Book of Genesis, and in the biological reality of sex (that it is binary and immutable), are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But maybe a mother who wants to give her baby up for adoption will regain <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/145e048d0db24d3893904c42f929137d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the right to have a say<\/a> in who gets the kid.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe White House says the rule from the Department of Health and Human Services is needed to remove barriers that prevent some nonprofits from helping vulnerable people in their communities. It would apply to a broad range of organizations that receive federal support, such as those that get federal funding to help the homeless or prevent HIV. But the focus from supporters and detractors Friday was on foster care and adoption services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnder the proposed rule, HHS would redo an Obama-era rule that included sexual orientation as a protected trait under anti-discrimination protections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said that restricting the work of faith-based organizations, as the Obama rule threatened to do, was unfair and serves no one, \u2018especially the children in need of those services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/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=\"Woke Wars: No Male Artists; Protected Vegan Beliefs; No LGBT Right To Your Kid\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Government may I or may I not?\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Mother Government may I or may I not? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/04\/23\/quick-takes-woke-wars-no-male-artists-protected-vegan-beliefs-no-lgbt-right-to-your-kid\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9,55,24,48],"class_list":["post-16523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-europe","tag-gender","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523","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=16523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16524,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16523\/revisions\/16524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}