Posted on 04/17/2014 2:03:07 PM PDT by Morgana
NEW YORK, April 17, 2014, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New York City councilman has effectively told traditional marriage supporters they are “not welcome” in the Big Apple.
In response to Chick-fil-A’s proposed plans to expand their business and set up restaurants in several locations, including New York City, Councilman Daniel Dromm told the Huffington Post that the fast-food chain would not be welcome in the most populous city in the country. Councilman Daniel Dromm
“We don’t need bigots coming to New York City,” Dromm told HuffPost. “They are not welcome here unless they can embrace all of New York’s diverse community, including the LGBT community.”
Chick-fil-A made national headlines in 2012 when CEO Dan Cathy voiced his belief in traditional marriage. His remarks sparked scathing reactions from pro-homosexual politicians and the homosexual lobby.
Despite the onslaught of pro-homosexuality antagonism, the fast-food chain received an even larger outpouring of support after the incident, including a nation-wide “Chick-fil-A Day,” during which the restaurant made record-breaking sales.
Cathy has recently said he wishes to expand the company and consequently not be so vocal about his personal opinions.
This pledge of silence, however, does not placate Councilman Dromm’s desire to keep traditional marriage supporters out of New York City.
“We don’t need bigoted people even keeping their opinions to themselves,” Dromm said. “They need to wake up and see reality.”
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has called Dromm’s remarks “outrageous” and “intolerant.”
“What Dromm has effectively said here is that anyone who believes in marriage as the union of a man and a woman is unwelcome in New York City," Brown stated. “Christians and others are now, it seems, going to be considered guilty of 'thought-crimes' and threatened with all manner of reprisals simply for holding their beliefs."
Brown issued an appeal to marriage supporters to take action by voicing their resentment and offense at Dromm’s statement.
“An individual's own privately-held beliefs,” said Brown, “if they conflict with Mr. Drumm's radical new orthodoxy, even if those beliefs are never publicly expressed, make that person guilty of a ‘thought-crime’ and label him or her a ‘bigot’ that doesn't belong in the Big Apple!”
Brown cited the recent media kerfuffle concerning former Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich’s past monetary support of Proposition 8 in California as another example of the readiness of pro-homosexual lobbies and politicians to jump down the throat and smother all supporters of traditional marriage.
“[Dromm’s] remarks,” Brown stated, “coming amidst a climate of such unseemly attacks on pro-marriage people as we saw with the Mozilla controversy last week, simply reinforce a growing manifestation of hostility and intimidation in the public square toward folks with traditional values.”
While the media was all-too-ready to make Eich’s “controversial” stance known across the world, they have been silent about Dromm’s incendiary remarks. Brown said that Dromm’s remarks “should have stirred public outcry and a flurry of media attention: but instead we hear deafening silence from the media, which is tantamount to a tacit approval.”
Brown is calling on the New York City Council to condemn Dromm’s remarks and issue a formal apology for them.
"Mr. Dromm has alienated and insulted millions of New Yorkers and made them feel like they don't belong in their own home city. The Council should correct this and extend an apology immediately and undo the hurt and wrong that's been done."
Yep.
Liberals don't believe in religious freedom unless the 'religion' agrees with liberal's 'enlightened' beliefs. Trust me, that excludes most people who live in the world... or have ever lived in this world.
Lots of people are not welcome there apparently, when do they start building a bug wall with sniper towers ??
Eventually it will happen after the collapse. Unfortunately in another 250 years, they will forget the faces of their founding fathers as we have and history will repeat for them as well.
Likewise.
Tupper Lake looked like Detroit back in the 60’s...
And how did you guess that MR NSA guy because I never posted the name of the town ;)
It was OK back then. Not Beverly hills but not that bad. But when the libs wrecked the logging industry, that really slaughtered it. Then they closed Big Tupper over snow making and that was another hit. then the OWD and Verneer plant closed and that was all she wrote.
Uptown now looks like a ghetto and the junction is being reclaimed by the swamp.
For kids, it was more fun than Detroit. :-)
That would be Monakey and Meaders Pharm IIRC and yes the Bog was fun. Many a drunken night in my misspent youth there.
I just watched a couple vids as I said and the old Ginsburg building looks ready to collapse. It’s really sad what happened to it...the town in general. But with the jobs all but eliminated, no one has the cash to fix squat and the Adirondack Park Agency is worse than the BLM with their regulations. So no one has a reason to invest there.
They are literally driving people out to ‘reclaim the land’.
Monakey and Meaders...yep. Purchased my NM copy of Conan #1 (Marvel) there...among many others.
APA was usually mentioned by locals in the same sentence with very colorful swear words.
Oh believe it. The list of their BS would make Reid envious. They are run by the Sierra Club and the most corrupt Dems in Albany.
An uncle has a hunting camp on Haymeadow Pond. In one year the lease went from $150 a year to over $2000 a year.
Edit...HAD a hunting camp.
‘Reclaim the land’...you’re right; they are well on their way.
And the water. They are banning motors on boats in a few places already. Sierra now ‘caretakes’ Whitney park/castle.
I doubt I will ever see that area again, so I can chug along on pleasant memories from my youth...
Same here. I have no intention to ever step foot in that state again. It was great to grow up in. But that’s it. No fun to be an adult there. Or a kid really since they closed do much of the land.
Does that mean Muslims who support natural marriage are unwelcome in NYC as well.
The first modern-day Sodom.
Isn’t it expensive as $%^ to live in most major cities nowadays anyways? If so, that’s probably why these leftists are saying what they are. The right-wing people simply often don’t have the money to live there.
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