{"id":25464,"date":"2016-10-04T14:52:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T21:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=25464"},"modified":"2016-10-04T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T22:17:46","slug":"senator-gaines-disappointed-in-sighing-of-senate-bill-1146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=25464","title":{"rendered":"Senator Gaines Disappointed In Signing Of Senate Bill 1146"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Senator Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado) today issued the following statement regarding Governor Brown\u2019s signing of Senate Bill 1146 (Lara), a bill that discriminates against all religious-based universities and infringes their ability to ensure faith-based practices are upheld on campus, undermining the concrete right of religious freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1.png\" alt=\"ted-gaines-screen\" width=\"1153\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1.png 1153w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1-300x52.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1-768x133.png 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1-1024x178.png 1024w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1-570x99.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1-701x122.png 701w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen-1-1067x185.png 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1153px) 100vw, 1153px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heading towards a one belief system, and anyone who strays from that state-sponsored orthodoxy gets punished. This bill is a step towards putting a scarlet letter on the chest of all religious institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe First Amendment is clear: Christian and other religious institutions should be free to practice their faith without state interference. This is phase one of a radical strategy to tear down religious institutions. First it\u2019s to identify the target, isolate it, then demonize it. This bill could have been worse, but as part of a larger strategy to eliminate religion, it\u2019s alarming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornia prides itself on multiculturalism, but it seems like Christians are one culture the ruling elites fear and target more than any other. We are blessed to live in a free nation and we should be able to respect beliefs that differ from our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ted Gaines represents the 1st Senate District, which includes all or parts of Alpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, Shasta, Sierra and Siskiyou counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230;Senator Ted Gaines (R-El Dorado) today issued the following statement regarding Governor Brown\u2019s signing of Senate Bill 1146 (Lara), a bill that discriminates against all religious-based universities and infringes their ability to ensure faith-based practices are upheld on campus, undermining the concrete right of religious freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment. \u201cWe are heading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1599,"featured_media":25465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ted-gaines-screen.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}