Posted on 08/06/2012 10:50:09 AM PDT by scottjewell
I am aware that we can't post pieces from HuffPost but I did find it telling , and worthy of mention, that a major gay advocate (Michelangelo Signorile) from their Gay Voices is asking if the CFA gay protest failed, why, and what can be done now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/chick-fil-a-were-the-prot_b_1746382.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices
What is interesting to me is that he attributes their failure to lack of organization, which is not quite true. The events were organized well in advance and invites posted on Facebook and Twitter - the same tactic used by Huckabee for his Aug 1 CFA Appreciation Day, which we all know was hugely, massively succesful.
Says Singorile:
"How did we allow it to happen? Because there was no coordinated effort on our side. The controversy was largely driven by blogs, social media and very loosely organized grass-roots activists, with no coordinated leadership. The city mayors and politicians calling for banning Chick-fil-A gave an opportunity for the right to reframe the story. The mayors backed off quickly after many on the left decided it wasn't a good idea. That's what we progressives do: We debate and often rethink things, unlike what those on the right did during the controversy over the Islamic center, as James Peron noted. But though the politicians backed off, the damage was done. And there was no leadership on our side aggressively pulling the story back from the right's re-framing."
Denial and rationalization will only go so far to wave away this massive fail.
As one poster commented on the piece:
"Accepting and liking are two different things..."
"I can accept a lot of things I don't like... The problem with this whole issue is that you want people to LIKE gay marriage... You can't make people LIKE it... The fact of the matter is until you make a law that says people have to LIKE gay marriage than there is nothing that this CEO did that is in any way illegal or a "hate crime." You might as well forget a "like" law happening for any issue...."
Do you want to kids to think that homosexuals just hold hands?
Maybe they should just hold hands before they have to grow up and face crude people like you.
Maybe they should just hold hands before they have to grow up and face crude people like you.
Sorry your ox got gored.
Sorry your ox got gored.
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