{"id":1344,"date":"2023-02-24T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:46:30","slug":"the-right-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2023\/02\/24\/the-right-to-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the current battle grounds is around the freedom of belief.  Am I free to believe whatever I want  or am I constrained by what others believe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all know the issue surrounding the christian bakers who refused to produce an openly gay affirming cake. In the end their right not to produce something that offended them trumped the offense taken by the prospective customers, who were, when all said and done, trying to make a point .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here&#8217;s another.  Does a venue have the right to refuse prospective performers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/the-kings-singers-saddened-after-college-in-florida-cancels-show-over-lifestyle-which-violates-scripture-12811513?dicbo=v2-o3eri1c\">https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/the-kings-singers-saddened-after-college-in-florida-cancels-show-over-lifestyle-which-violates-scripture-12811513?dicbo=v2-o3eri1c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the current battle grounds is around the freedom of belief. Am I free to believe whatever I want or am I constrained by what others believe? We all know the issue surrounding the christian bakers who refused to produce an openly gay affirming cake. In the end their right not to produce something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2023\/02\/24\/the-right-to-believe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The right to believe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}