Get posts with custom taxonomy

functions.php

/**
* Conditional function to check if post belongs to term in a custom taxonomy.
*
* @param    tax          string              Taxonomy to which the term belons
* @param    term    	int|string|array    Attributes of shortcode
* @param    _post    	int                 Post id to be checked
* @return             	BOOL                True if term is matched, false otherwise
*/

function pa_in_taxonomy($tax, $term, $_post = NULL) {
    // if neither tax nor term are specified, return false
    if ( !$tax || !$term ) { return FALSE; }
    // if post parameter is given, get it, otherwise use $GLOBALS to get post
    if ( $_post ) {
        $_post = get_post( $_post );
    } else {
        $_post =& $GLOBALS['post'];
    }
    // if no post return false
    if ( !$_post ) { return FALSE; }
    // check whether post matches term belongin to tax
    $return = is_object_in_term( $_post->ID, $tax, $term );
    // if error returned, then return false
    if ( is_wp_error( $return ) ) { return FALSE; }
    return $return;
}

init.php

if (pa_in_taxonomy('genres', 'western')) {
echo "Western films are great";
} else {
// do something else
}

// Note I’m using the tax/term slug, but the is_object_in_term function in use will accept term id, slug, or array of either, so you could do:

if (pa_in_taxonomy('genres', array('western', 'drama', 'comedy'))) {}
// or
if (pa_in_taxonomy('genres', array(1, 2, 3)) {}