{"id":9377,"date":"2024-03-07T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2024-03-07T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:08:23","slug":"christians-excluded-from-serving-on-a-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9377","title":{"rendered":"Christians Excluded From Serving on a Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/christians-excluded-from-serving-on-a-jury\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/christians-excluded-from-serving-on-a-jury\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently expressed concern about the decision by Missouri\u2019s state courts to exclude Christians from serving on a particular jury because of their \u201ctraditional religious views on questions of sexual morality.\u201d The case involves a woman who identifies as a lesbian suing the Missouri Department of Corrections for job discrimination. The US Supreme Court recently declined to review this chilling decision based on a procedural problem.<\/p>\n<p>Alito rightly harkened back to the concern he mentioned when the high court legalized same-sex marriage. He said then that people who opposed homosexuality and same-sex marriage will eventually risk being unfairly \u201clabeled as bigots and treated as such.\u201d He was right. Religious beliefs shouldn\u2019t exclude one from serving on a jury, just as sex and race can\u2019t be the basis for exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/christians-excluded-from-serving-on-a-jury\/ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently expressed concern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9378,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions\/9378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}