Menino Chick-fil-A stance shows guns aren’t only freedom ‘progressives’ threaten

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 21 July, 2012 | David Codrea

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Citing an anti-“same sex marriage” stance by its corporate ownership, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has vowed to block Chick-fil-A restaurants in Beantown, the Boston Herald reported Thursday.

“Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion,” the Herald quoted the mayor. “It doesn’t send the right message to the country. We’re a leader when it comes to social justice and opportunities for all.”

That would be for all except those who disagree with the mayor’s political stances. And while the Herald confirms Menino successfully blocked a Walmart using economic factors as justification, what authority he has to block free enterprise over differences on social issues remains unstated, particularly if no zoning, employment or anti-discrimination laws are violated, and in light of incorporated rights ostensibly prohibited from government abridgement by the Constitution and court precedent.

Without further defining his plot to block private parties from entering into contractual agreements, it would appear the mayor is relying on bluster, the potential for bureaucratic harassment and official inflammation of a mob mentality to intimidate the chain from entering “his” fiefdom. And if that’s the case, the mayor is inconsistent and gutless if he does not apply the same exclusion to Boston’s prominent Catholic Archdiocese,

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Far from being inclusive and tolerant, the mayor’s stance reveals the application of a chilling Orwellian Newspeak/Doublethink deception right out of “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” And far from representing all of Boston’s citizens, the mayor has shown himself not only to be unafraid, but enthusiastic about abusing the powers of office to bully political minorities into submission, even when he doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on.

[Tired of Taxes]

We buy food at Chick-Fil-A once a week on average. We haven’t eaten at any other type of fast food restaurant in probably 15 years.

My sons love the food. They all are lean, btw, so it hasn’t affected their weight. (I’m the one who has to order the salad.) ;-) One son has been thinking about applying for a job there.

Now that I read this story, I’m even more glad that we’ve been patronizing the place for years.

[Monorprise]

Conservative towns & states should to do like wise to insure that business america chooses sides rather than just being bullied into all falling behind the left.

We can’t afford every business being made a pawn of the leftist agenda. We must head this off now, the only way we can do that with the power we have is by taking a contrary/retaliatory stance as to insure that a business that joins the left loses here.

That way businesses either remain neutral or pick sides more evenly.

[Monorprise]

I rather it be open and 2 sided than under the table zoning.