{"id":8341,"date":"2018-06-25T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2018-06-25T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T13:11:58","slug":"needful-distinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8341","title":{"rendered":"Needful distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An array of people have weighed-in on Sarah Sanders&#8217; removal from a Lexington, Virginia restaurant last Friday evening, and much of the commentary &#8212; left and right &#8212; fails to recognize a needful distinction.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant&#8217;s refusal to serve Sanders was NOT just like refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Gays are born gay; that is an all-but-settled fact.  Sexual orientation is not so easy to see as skin color, but it is no less innate, and discriminating against gays is punishing people for something they can&#8217;t control &#8212; just like discriminating against black people.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant discriminated against Sarah Sanders because she is a rotten human being who lies for a living, who is mean-spirited even as she flaunts her piety, who insults people who expect her to conduct herself professionally &#8212; and those things go to character and <i>are<\/i> under Sanders&#8217; control.  <i>Sarah Sanders hasn&#8217;t any business amongst decent people<\/i>, and it&#8217;s a <i>good<\/i> thing that the excesses of the ongoing national embarrassment of the Trump administration has people willing at too-long last to treat figures like Sanders with the contempt they deserve instead of as celebrities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An array of people have weighed-in on Sarah Sanders&#8217; removal from a Lexington, Virginia restaurant last Friday evening, and much of the commentary &#8212; left and right &#8212; fails to recognize a needful distinction. The restaurant&#8217;s refusal to serve Sanders &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8342,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/8342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}