{"id":3795,"date":"2008-06-16T12:04:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2008-06-16T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:04:57","slug":"ethics-question-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ethics-question-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics question of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91486340\">same sex couple<\/a> in New Mexico wanted to have a commitment ceremony.<br \/>\nThey started looking for a photographer and contacted one via e-mail.<br \/>\nIn returned they received: &#8220;We do not photograph same-sex weddings. But thanks for checking out our site! Have a great day!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe couple was hurt, devastated and apparently angry. They sued the photographer for discrimination.<br \/>\nAt the hearing, the photographer said that when he and his wife formed the company two years ago, they made it company policy not to shoot same-sex ceremonies, because the ceremonies conflicted with their Christian beliefs.<br \/>\n&#8220;We wanted to make sure that everything we photographed \u00e2\u20ac\u201d everything we used our artistic ability for, everything we told a story for or conveyed a message of \u00e2\u20ac\u201d would be in line with our values and our beliefs,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe couple won the case and the photographer was forced to pay the $6,600 in attorney fees.<br \/>\nWho was in the right here? Was anyone? What would you have done if you had been the photographer? What would you have done if you had been the couple?<br \/>\nHow do you think Jesus would have handled the situation?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91486340\">Listen to the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a same sex couple in New Mexico wanted to have a commitment ceremony. They started looking for a photographer and contacted one via e-mail. In returned they received: &#8220;We do not photograph same-sex weddings. But thanks for checking out our site! Have a great day!&#8221; The couple was hurt, devastated and apparently angry. They &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ethics-question-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethics question of the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[1165,1164,1167,626,74,1166,1163],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-politics","tag-ceremony","tag-commitment","tag-ethics","tag-marriage","tag-npr","tag-photography","tag-same-sex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Zd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}