Chick-fil-A CEO: Supreme Court rulings on gay ‘marriage’ mark ‘a sad day for our nation’

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[Morgana]

ATLANTA, June 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Chickens don’t tweet, but Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy does. Cathy took to Twitter after Wednesday’s twin Supreme Court decisions in favor of same-sex “marriage” to express his opposition to the controversial rulings.

“Sad day for our nation; founding fathers would be ashamed of our gen. to abandon wisdom of the ages re: cornerstone of strong societies,” Cathy posted to the social media site, which limits messages to 140 characters.

He later removed the tweet.

Chick-fil-A spokesman Jerry Johnston said that Cathy’s remarks represented his opinion, and not those of his company. Johnston said in a statement that, “Dan Cathy, like everyone in this country, has his own views. However, Chick-fil-A is focused on providing great-tasting food and genuine hospitality to everyone.”

Asked why Cathy chose to delete the tweet, Johnston told The Huffington Post, “He realized his views didn’t necessarily represent the views of all customers, restaurant owners, and employees, and didn’t want to distract them from providing a great restaurant experience.”

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Statements Cathy made to the Baptist Press last year in support of traditional marriage put Chick-fil-A at the center of a controversy that saw the chicken sandwich chain targeted by boycotts and threats of government retribution.

Efforts by homosexual activists to harm the chicken chain with boycotts, vandalism, and threats proved unsuccessful. Supporters of traditional marriage mobilized en masse to support the chain, organizing a “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” that saw record-breaking sales and interminably long lines at drive-thru windows nationwide.

But the media firestorm was so intense that when convicted terrorist Floyd Corkins showed up at the headquarters of the Family Research Center with a handgun and opened fire at the height of the controversy, he was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches along with the ammunition in his backpack.

In a videotaped confession, the 28-year-old homosexual activist said he intended to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.” He hoped the atrocity would “make a statement against the people who work in that building...and with their stance against gay rights and [for] Chick-fil-A.”

[Yosemitest]

Little Caesars?
Someone once said:

"The only way one can accept the truth and retain their sanity is to trust God."

They may be more to it than that.
Doing is important.
I believe the "fiery trial" has already started.
We haven't been very diligent " ... to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses ... "
and there are consequences for our actions and in-actions.
We are living in the time of those consequences.

Why is it, that so-called religious men allow evil to continue, when God has told us how to put EVIL FROM among us?
Why is it, that God said that many are called, but few are chosen?
Why is it, that God warned us of false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ?

Have you not read:

" Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house;
and it fell not:
for it was founded upon a rock.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them not,
shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house;
and it fell:
and great was the fall of it. "

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, at least you seem to be trying to be logically consistent, you agree that the whole law of Moses must be kept if we are to be justified by that means. So you really ought to be advocating that we deal somehow with the sabbath breakers. Now you’ve already diluted the command to kill homosexuals to “sending them away” without a justification, so I am puzzled how the logic is complete.

Now as a small-o orthodox Christian I believe the New Testament assertion that we are justified now by grace through faith. This does not mean an anything-goes life, but one which is formed from the inside out in righteousness rather than one that uses a maze of law to try to keep self energized sinners in check (and still fails).

I would also ask why the fancy typography. That appears designed to draw attention to you and how clever you can get, not to the glorious Lord. I keep humble formatted prose, to the latter end.

[Yosemitest]

Justified?
You're scared to death to get off of the "Satan-taught" scriptures.
Have you ever read a little before those suggested text, or a little after?

I think not.

Remember:

"For the time is come that JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN at the house of God:
and if it first begin at us,
what shall the end be of them that obey NOT the gospel of God?"

Remember:

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit;
but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

NOT every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord, SHALL ENTER into the kingdom of heaven;
but HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day,
Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?
and in thy name have cast out devils?
and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them,
I NEVER KNEW YOU: DEPART FROM ME, YE THAT WORK INIQUITY.
Therefore whosoever HEARETH these sayings of mine, and DOETH them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house;
and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
And every one that HEARETH these sayings of mine, and DOETH THEM NOT,
shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house;
and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
For he taught them as one having authority,
and not as the scribes.

Think you,

that Jesus came to do away with the Law ?

God forbid !

A wise man one said in a meeting I attended in person:

Sin is the breaking of God's law.
Repenting of sin means being sorry you have broken God's law.
If you are sorry, it means you do not intend breaking His law any further!
Let's illustrate it this way:
You live in a society which must be regulated according to various laws.
There are federal, state, county and local laws which regulate practically every act and deed.
Whether we are speaking here of federal laws, civil codes or simply traffic laws, the same principle applies.

You are required in order to retain your freedom and your citizenship to obey the laws of our country.
If you break some of them, it may only require a fine or a very small penalty, or even a warning, and you will be allowed to remain free.

Breaking others can be far more serious.
Grand theft, larceny, arson, robbery, burglary, auto theft or murder could get you thrown behind bars
(not withstanding the terrible laxity of the courts today).

Let's suppose you have done precisely this.

Maybe, caught up in an emotional state with wrong companions, you perpetrate some act which is clearly against the law.
Let's assume you are arrested and in due time brought to trial.
But, during the trial, just as the judge has imposed upon you a terrific fine which you would never be able to pay— say, a million dollars—
a completely unknown stranger, your benefactor, stands and says,
"Your honor, I believe this man is seriously contrite.
I believe he got caught up in the emotion of the moment and was under the influence of some evil companions.
I feel he is a man of integrity and wishes truly to mend his ways and live a better life.

"Therefore, I am willing to pay his fine myself so he can go free, and he doesn't need to pay this penalty!"

Although it probably wouldn't happen in our society, it does illustrate the point.
The judge (as a type of God the Father) would say to the benefactor (who is a type of Jesus Christ and His sacrifice for our own sins),
"That will be fine!
You may step up and pay the court $1 million and we will write on the court records
that the man who has been accused is free to go."

Then the judge may look at you, the person who has been arrested, tried and sentenced, and say,
"You are free to go.
But don't ever get caught up in that kind of a situation again!"

Do you see?

You are required, as a citizen of a free country, to obey its laws, or else

In the case of God's divine laws, you are required, whether you know about them or not (ignorance of the law is no excuse), whether you are a Christian, a professing Christian or whatever, to obey God's Ten Commandments.

Though people by the millions freely break the Ten Commandments every single day, they are unknowingly coming under the penalty of the law, which is death! (Romans 6:23).

When you repent, you are saying to God you are deeply sorry you have broken His laws.

Jesus Christ of Nazareth as the counsel for the defense says to God, the Righteous Judge, that He believes in your profession of repentance
and is willing to allow His own sacrifice to be applied in your case!

Then, just as Jesus said to the woman taken in the very act of adultery, God will say the same thing to you,
"Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more!"


True repentance, then, means
being deeply sorry you have broken God's Ten Commandments,
resolving through the power of God's Holy Spirit and the help of Jesus Christ as your daily High Priest and Intercessor,
not to break the Ten Commandments henceforth.

Don't fall into Satan's deception of believing that God's Laws , The Ten Commandments are done away with.

[Yosemitest]

We all “... desire mercy, not sacrifice.”
But isn't that what filled many churches with homosexual pedophiles?
We continue to tolerate the intolerable, and God has told us:

“ Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations,
even these that remain among you,
and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you;
but they shall be snares and traps unto you,
and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes,
until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you. ”

[HiTech RedNeck]

You seem to be rather short sighted and making unmerited assumptions. The mercy in mind here is not the sloppy, excusing kind. It is the focused kind that sees past the sinner’s sin to the sinner’s needy soul and shows him a path that will bring about a conquest of the sin.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You beg the question rather vigorously.

I would like at this juncture to inquire of you what your religious background is. You sound like a sect that is focused upon the perceived need to institute a Mosaic law worldwide in preparation for the return of the Savior. That is simply lousy theology, and anyhow why are you riding the sole hobby horse of homosexuality here when there are something like 613 Mosaic laws when the Decalogue is expanded?

[Yosemitest]

The road to where is paved with good intentionms?

[Yosemitest]

Think where we would be now, if we just OBEYED God !
My religious background?
Isn't that between God and me?
Mosaic law?
Rather the Law given by the Word from our Heavenly Father, is more accurate.

[Yosemitest]

"Decalogue"

Decalogue ?
Sounds weird.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In what bible do you read this? That is a man made statement, and at best it would need to be treated as a proverb, which is something that is true often enough to be worthy of consideration but which is not universally true.

I would be the first to assert that the greatest spiritual discretion and strongest faith is needed to guide homosexuals successfully out of their sin. I would also believe, based on what I have seen of you, that you are not at the point in your spiritual life where you could exercise that. I would suggest that you not personally try. However you could point them to a ministry known as Exodus International. Technically organized as a network of self help groups, it is thoroughly orthodox Christian faith based.

In the meantime please refrain from denigrating the awesome compassionate power of Christ to deliver from sin. There aren’t big parades of “delivered gays” and the reason is not because they don’t exist but because they are forever encountering people who do not understand, either the legalistically condemnatory like you or the excusers or the radical homosexual crowd, and the spiritual toll is immense to them when they do. However, if God presented to you on a silver platter someone ready to walk through the redemptive door of 1 Cor 6, I don’t really believe you’d want to muff it, would you?

I believe I have said all that could be meaningfully said at this point. If you want to talk on, let me think about it. I am not sure it is spiritually wise, though I am not backing off an iota of what I have said.

[Yosemitest]

You think you can do what God has not?
He has told you in more places than one, what to do, yet you do not OBEY !

" the greatest spiritual discretion and strongest faith is needed to guide homosexuals successfully out of their sin."

Nowhere in the Bible will you find anything that would backup such an amateurish statement.
OBEY God!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Your point would be excellent — except that God HAS done it. 1 Cor 6:9-11. We can be ministers of this if we are prepared. You are not prepared; you are blind. The blind can only lead the blind into ditches.

And with that, really all that needs to be said, has been said.

[Yosemitest]

Satan applauds amateurish actions, continuing to allow his EVIL minions to abuse God's children.
HOW DARE YOU!
You do NOT OBEY God!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I am sorry to tell you this, but it appears that you yourself are worshiping a crabbed “God” who is not the real God of the universe, nor the God that inspired Paul to write the passage of scripture I just cited.

You, not I, need to repent in this matter.

You have not revealed your theological background, which is now very suspect to me. You seem to be the amateur, not I; I have learned for 21 years in a bible church, and have also worshiped in Methodist, Lutheran, Free Methodist, and Baptist churches.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Are you willing to dare to discover how God fairly and squarely earns His name of “Wonderful”? Go ahead and be crabbed if you must. But your crabbed-ness does not judge me. God does not damn or even judge me for failing to convince you. You are not my judge. But in the Holy Spirit, I can judge much.

[Yosemitest]

You have only learned how to assist Satan's minions to continue to abuse God's children.
You assist homosexuals, instead of following God's instructions.
You work against God.

[Yosemitest]

There is nothing in 1 Cor 6:9-11. that commands you to go against what God has told you in Romans 1:16-32.
You know as well as I do that Jesus is also the LORD of the Old Testament.
You also know that He told us:

“ For whosoever shall commit ANY of these abominations,
even the SOULS that commit them
SHALL BE CUT OFF from among their people. ”

Then later He told us:

" ...both of them have committed an abomination:
THEY shall surely be put to DEATH;
their blood shall be upon THEM.

You also know that God gave them several chances before He "gave them over to a reprobate mind ..."

Do you remember what Jesus said about the unclean spirit?

" When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man,
he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Then he saith,
I will return into my house from whence I came out;
and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself SEVEN OTHER SPIRITS MORE WICKED than himself,
and they enter in and dwell there:
and the last state of that man is WORSE than the first.
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. "

Yet, you FAIL to OBEY God!
And thereby, you enable Satan's minions to continue to abuse God's children.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, you appear to be so obdurate in your own personal interpretation of scripture that I cannot reach you -- and I will not try.

However, for anyone else who may be following this, I wish to point out that nothing argues for successful ministry of the gospel to homosexual sinners like success. Sinners are not rewarded with such success. Even the blind man who Jesus healed knew that. It is the scoffing, law-stuck (as if they never read the books of Hebrews and Galatians) backwoods bigots -- not even fit to be red necks -- who are going to end up with the short stick in heaven, that is if they even are headed there at all.

Have a day; I turn you over to Satan to be taught.

[Yosemitest]

And where is your statistics on success of converting homosexuals?
I see none.

And as far as

"I turn you over to Satan to be taught."

Be careful ... less you fall yourself into your own pit.

[HiTech RedNeck]

God has not yet brought me such a thing, but has privileged me to observe it elsewhere and I already gave you one example of such an elsewhere. If you were honest, you would contact them yourself rather than scoffing at me, just like the healed blind man told the scoffing Pharisees to see Jesus themselves. God has taught me many things by observation before I ever practiced them, and for everyone who practices them there is always a first. If God did bring me such a thing I sure would know a lot more than you do about how, with respect to him, to “snatch some from the fire and save them” and “preach the gospel, in season and out of season” and “make disciples [learners, students — the Greek root is manthenein] of all peoples.”

What did some homosexual ever do to YOU that you are more invested in their damnation than Jesus is? You are one very, very bitter person. Turning over to Satan is, however, a biblical thing; Paul did it, with the intent of showing someone that there was nothing to be gained in blasphemy. And you, indeed, blaspheme greatly.