{"id":19026,"date":"2013-03-16T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19026"},"modified":"2013-03-16T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T00:12:59","slug":"you-cant-work-here-youll-upset-the-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/you-cant-work-here-youll-upset-the-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#039;t work here, you&#039;ll upset the atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2294472\/You-work-youll-upset-atheists-What-hotel-told-jobseeker-discovering-committed-Christian.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A graphic designer is suing a hotel after claiming he was turned down for a job there because he is a Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Haxby said he felt &#8216;victimised and persecuted&#8217; after allegedly being told he could not design adverts for the Essex venue due to his faith.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Haxby, a regular worshipper at his local church, says manager Celie Parker apologised for inviting him to the interview after discovering he was a committed Christian.<\/p>\n<p>He claims he was then told he would not be\u00a0considered for the role as his beliefs could upset atheists working there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With rich new veins of material like this, it\u2019s a shame <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yEWzvTxMSws\" target=\"_blank\">Fawlty Towers<\/a> is no more.<\/p>\n<p>Unless reduced to penury &#8211; a hitherto unlikely scenario, but you never know &#8211; I would not want to run a hotel. But if I did, upsetting atheists would be a condition of employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A graphic designer is suing a hotel after claiming he was turned down for a job there because he is a Christian. Jamie Haxby said he felt &#8216;victimised and persecuted&#8217; after allegedly being told he could not design &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/you-cant-work-here-youll-upset-the-atheists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,927],"class_list":["post-19026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-jamie-haxby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}