Posted on 02/02/2011 4:57:38 AM PST by Kaslin
Here's a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don't comport with yours. I'm looking at you, New York Times.
Chick-fil-A is an American success story. Founded by Georgian entrepreneur Truett Cathy in 1946, the family-owned chicken-sandwich chain is one of the country's largest fast-food businesses. It employs some 50,000 workers across the country at 1,500 outlets in nearly 40 states and the District of Columbia. The company generates more than $2 billion in revenue and serves millions of happy customers with trademark Southern hospitality.
So, what's the problem? Well, Chick-fil-A is run by devout Christians who believe in strong marriages, devoted families and the highest standards of character for their workers. The restaurant chain's official corporate mission is to "glorify God" and "enrich the lives of everyone we touch." The company's community service initiatives, funded through its WinShape Foundation, support foster care, scholarship, summer camp and marriage enrichment programs. On Sunday, all Chick-fil-A stores close so workers can spend the day at worship and rest.
For the left, these Biblically based corporate principles constitute high social justice crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats are always ready to invoke religion to support their big government, taxpayer-funded initiatives (Obamacare, illegal alien amnesty, increased education spending and FCC regulatory expansion, for starters).
But when an independent company -- thriving on its own merits in the marketplace -- wears its soul on its sleeve, suddenly it's a theocratic crisis.
Over the past month, several progressive activist blogs have waged an ugly war against Chick-fil-A. The company's alleged atrocity: One of its independent outlets in Pennsylvania donated some sandwiches and brownies to a marriage seminar run by the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which happens to oppose same-sex marriage.
In the name of tolerance, the anti-Chick-fil-A hawks sneered at the company's main product as "Jesus Chicken," derided its no-Sunday work policy and attacked its operators as "anti-gay." Michael Jones, who describes himself as having "worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School," launched an online petition drive at www.change.org "demanding" that the company disavow "extreme anti-gay groups." Facebook users dutifully organized witch hunts against the company on college campuses.
Over the weekend, New York Times reporter Kim Severson gave the Chick-fil-A bashers a coveted Sunday A-section megaphone -- repeatedly parroting the "Chick-fil-A is anti-gay" slur and raising fears of "evangelical Christianity's muscle flexing" with only the thinnest veneer of journalistic objectivity. Severson, you see, is an openly gay advocate of same-sex marriage equality herself and the former vice-president of the identity politics-mongering National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association.
In a bitter op-ed on gay marriage laws not changing quickly enough, she asserted: "I don't want the crumbs. I want the whole cake." Severson has voiced complaints about her social and economic status as an unwed lesbian with a partner and child in several media publications.
None of this was disclosed in Severson's advocacy journalism hit job on Chick-fil-A. But therein lies the unofficial motto of The Gray Lady: All the ideological conflicts of interest unfit to print.
Progressive groups are gloating over Chick-fil-A's public relations troubles exacerbated by the nation's politicized paper of record. This is not because they care about winning hearts and minds over gay rights or marriage policy, but because their core objective is to marginalize political opponents and chill Christian philanthropy and activism. The fearsome "muscle flexing" isn't being done by innocent job-creators selling chicken sandwiches and waffle fries. It's being done by the hysterical bullies trying to drive them off of college grounds and out of their neighborhoods in the name of "human rights."
Remember: These were the same tactics the left-wing mob used in California to intimidate supporters of the Proposition 8 traditional marriage initiative. Individual donors were put on an "Anti-Gay Black List." Businesses who contributed money to the Prop. 8 campaign were besieged by fist-wielding protesters. The artistic director of the California Musical Theatre was forced to resign over his $1,000 donation.
Message: Associate with the wrong political cause and you will pay. So much for national "civility."
I love Michelle Malkin ping!
Support Chick-fil-A today. The queers on the left are trying to make wrong into right.
I often hear from non Christians how ‘hypocritial’ Christians are. Since homosexual acts are clearly labeled sin in the Bible, wouldn’t it be hypocritial for the Christian community to vote for and condone gay marriage?
I often hear from non Christians how ‘hypocritial’ Christians are. Since homosexual acts are clearly labeled sin in the Bible, wouldn’t it be hypocritial for the Christian community to vote for and condone gay marriage?
I was listening rather than watching and the first half of his comments sounded appropriate as someone defending ChickFilA.....but then he goes on to say he's GAY and gays are not mutually exclusive to spiritual values or Republican politics....(paraphrasing)....
Brian was interviewing him....
....I was not amused.
makes me hungry for Jesus chicken ;-)
Lunch today at Chick-Fil-A.
Tell the gay to go away.
Hmmmm......I feel like taking the family to Chick-Fil-A today. Maybe taking home some extra for tomorrow, too. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Chick-Fil-A’s business went up now?
I’ve passed Chick Fil-a every day of my life, knowing nothing about it. Me and my little dog are going to become regular customers.
EAT MORE CHIX’N
I personally know some young people they hired in our local community...and these kids are cream of the crop!
The company has high standards and the customers are always treated with respect and courtesy!
I really like the food and the place is very clean.
I might do that too
Tell the gay to go away.
Is it true that gays boys will only eat a Chick-Fil-A sandwich made from a Rooster and lesbos will only eat one made from a hen?
How can they tell?
I’d bet a thousand buch that CFA’s sales go way up whenever a heathen hit piece like this comes out of the media. Christian’s are very good at rallying to support the faithful. I went the very day I first read of this.
The power of gay agitators is incredible. Their propaganda would never work if it were not for the incessant brainwashing about “tolerance” in our public schools.
Hubby and I get Chick Fil A a few times a week. It is called the Dwarf House here and has a sitdown section complete with sweet waitresses who call us Sug and Hon. Met the pie lady at a local wholesale club and we talked awhile about our dogs. The waitstaff invisibly refills our sweet tea that we inhale and gives a wink when we order extra sandwiches for our basset hounds (no pickles) and fried sweet potato pies for my inlaws. They now have a delicious spicy white chili made with grilled chopped chicken and bring me extra sour cream ‘because that is how they like it’. When anyone steps up to the spot to be seated, a genuine smile is flashed and every single time I thank an employee, I get a pat or an arm squeeze with a ‘my pleasure’.
And for Pete’s sake, their sandwiches are out of this world with their buttered buns, the juicy fresh fried chicken and the snap of the pickle slices when you sink your teeth in them combined with their huge waffle cut french fries that are ALWAYS served piping hot, the golden crunch combined with the creaminess of the potato that is served just right is nothing short of a religious experience.
Come on people. Where else can you get a hug from the waitress when you leave any restaurant and walk out feeling like you are family??!!
Matter of fact, I propose a Freerepublic ‘lunch-in’ at the Newnan, Ga Dwarfhouse on the corner of Bullsboro Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 1 pm which concidentally is Tuesday -Buy- One-Sandwich= Get -One-Free -when -you- dine- in day.
By God, I’ll be there.
Every Christian worth his salt will stop in and support the local Chick-fil-A, if they aere fortunate enough to have one nearby. That is part of “encouraging one another in the faith” that St. Paul wrote about. The ungodly should be resisted when they attack fellow Christians.
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