{"id":24554,"date":"2015-08-25T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate\/"},"modified":"2015-08-25T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:10:20","slug":"chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Christie: \u201cBusinesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chris Christie: \u201cBusinesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate\u201d<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/WhatsAtStake_Imageshare(3)-blgo263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        At the Iowa Soapbox on Saturday, presidential hopeful and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie offered his insight on religious freedom laws, admitting that private organizations should not be able to refuse service.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Christie: \u201cBusinesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate\u201d At the Iowa Soapbox on Saturday, presidential hopeful and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie offered his insight on religious freedom laws, admitting that private organizations should not be able to refuse service. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris Christie: \u201cBusinesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate\u201d - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/chris-christie-businesses-should-not-be-allowed-to-discriminate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chris Christie: \u201cBusinesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate\u201d - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chris Christie: \u201cBusinesses Should Not be Allowed to Discriminate\u201d At the Iowa Soapbox on Saturday, presidential hopeful and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie offered his insight on religious freedom laws, admitting that private organizations should not be able to refuse service. 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