Posted on 07/31/2012 9:06:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy is in hot water with the LGBT community because he committed the cardinal sin in an age of political correctness: Thou must not speak ill of anything gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgenders wish to do.
In an interview with the Baptist Press and later on a Christian radio program, Cathy, whose father, the philanthropist Truett Cathy, founded the company, defended marriage between a man and a woman and when asked about the company's support of traditional marriage said, "Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit." Cathy believes American society is rotting (and where is evidence to the contrary?) because the country has turned away from God.
That was it. Cathy did not say he would deny someone with a different view than his the right to eat in or work at any of his fast-food restaurants, which would violate the law. He did not say anything hateful about them. He simply expressed a deeply held conviction rooted in his Christian faith.
The reaction tells you everything you need to know about certain liberals who believe every sort of speech, activity and expression should be protected, except the speech, activity and expression of evangelical Christians.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he would try to deny Chick-fil-A's application for permits to open restaurants in that city. Now that's discrimination. Menino wants to ban Chick-fil-A in Boston, not for discriminating against customers or employees, but because of its owner's beliefs, a threat he has since backed away from. Does Boston have "thought police" who might be ordered to investigate whether other business owners already operating in the city hold similar views? I'll bet there's someone at Durgin-Park who holds similar views. What about a player for the Boston Red Sox? Better follow them to see if any of them go to church.
Maybe Mayor Menino would like to force business owners in the city to testify before an official panel of grand inquisitors and then deny operating licenses to anyone who believes traditional marriage should be the norm?
In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said, "Chick-fil-A's values are not Chicago values." Are Chicago values represented by the anti-Semitic firebrand Louis Farrakhan with whom Emanuel is going to partner in hopes of reducing the number of homicides in his city? Are Farrakhan's anti-Semitic and anti-gay sentiments somehow more palatable, more of value, than Dan Cathy's support of marriage and family?
The Weekly Standard found a video posted on the Nation of Islam's website of a Farrakhan speech two months ago in which he blasted President Obama for endorsing same-sex marriage. Farrakhan said Obama is "the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid." He added, "...sin is sin according to the standard of God" and "the Bible forbids it."
That goes a lot further than Dan Cathy.
The Jim Henson Company has decided to pull its Creature Shop toys from Chick-fil-A and donate profits already made to GLAAD, the media-monitoring group that promotes the image of LGBT people. I knew Jim Henson when we both worked at the NBC-TV station in Washington in the mid-1960s. While we never discussed politics, I don't think at the time, at least, he would have wanted his characters, which appeal to everyone, involved in a cultural and political battle.
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and former Senator Rick Santorum, both also former presidential candidates, have called for a show of support for Cathy. They want people to eat at Chick-fil-A restaurants on August 1.
This is more than an economic battle. It is a First Amendment issue. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution. Dan Cathy has a right to his opinion, so does Farrakhan, so do we all.
The real "war" in this country is not only against the supposed civil right of nontraditional marriage. It is a war against conservative Christians and a denial of the same rights the LGBT community claims for itself. Free speech is an American value. We shouldn't settle for anything less.
Made my first trip today, eating the Spicy Chicken as we type.
I’m going to Chik filet at the mall today. And I’ll laugh at the liberals around the mall lol
Homosexuals and their supporters are the new bigots.
Do they deliver to Washington State?
Chick filet is better than the other fast food places here in this inner city. the Mcdonalds in the inner city has terrible service and rotten food. I won’t go there anymore. the chik filet has courteous peoplee and good food. this city And America are going down. All I see now is feral beasts all around. what a hell hole.
To surmise that a puppeteer is gay based solely on the implied gender of his characters Is a little bit of a stretch. Most male ventriloquists have “male” dummies. Paul Winchell had Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, Edgar Bergan had Charlie McCarthy and Snerdly Snodgrass, and almost all of Terry Fator’s dummies are male, as are Jeff Dunham’s characters.
Then there’s Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Elmer Fudd, Wil E. Coyote, were all male characters, too.
The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis...all male characters too.
It’s true that gays are loud and absurd, but can’t start seeing every pairing of same-sex people as “couples”. Has fear of the gays and political correctness made us that paranoid?
Whether Jim Henson was gay is immaterial, as he is long-since dead. It
is whomever is running his company now that is defending gay marriage by attacking CFA. Any boycott toward the current owners for their attack on CFA is the point, not the gender of imaginary characters.
To be clear, I intend to fully boycott the Henson company, but based on their attack on CFA, not on puppet gender. Being ludicrous will not win the battle...leave ludicrous up to the gays.
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Republican pledges support for medical marijuana, reproductive choice
The two candidates vying for the Florida House District 120 seat took turns Monday night espousing support for gay rights, including the right to marry and adopt babies.
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Yes, you can walk inside and order "to go" or you can go through the drive thru.
Yes like McDonald's it is fast food wrapped in paper and they even have drive-through. But unlike McDonald's the food actually tastes good.
There is not a doubt in my mind that we are having to choose which side we will be on in the coming months and years. I have several gay friends of both sexes, and I love them all dearly; however, I have prayed about this “gay marriage” issue many times and the answer is always the same - obey my Word. It never varies. I am not the hater here, my friends who are foaming at the mouth rabid ideologues are the haters. They will cut me to the quick because I do not believe in their “right” to marriage. Gay marriage will be shoved down our throats in the very near future and it will take tremendous courage to speak out against it. The world is upside down, black is white, evil is good (and vice versa), exactly how the Bible told us it would be.
Chicken NEVER tasted better.
I’ll be eating Chicken tonight
Some in the gay “community” think Jerry Sandusky had a constitutional “right” to man-boy “love”.
The MSM will not highlight this point of view.
Will be there for breakfast.
No, they bury that in silence for obvious reasons.
The mayor has no objections to a mosque being built in his city, even though the head imam has wondered aloud whether homosexuals should be burned to death or tossed off of buildings. I think the city even donated the land for the mosque.
This is a war against Christianity, pure and simple.
Went to support a Chik fil la at the Lakeland (Fl) mall yesterday. The double lane drive thru was totally backed up to the road and was SRO inside.
I waited in line for my order - glad to see everyone supporting them!
Sorry you have to live within 15 miles of the Chick-fil-A in Alliance(FortWorth) and I think Washington is just a smidgen over the limit.
I hear you about ventriloquists having mostly male dummies, but they are only one dummy per lap, reflecting the sex of the ventriloquist -- not an entire cast of characters. Bugs Bunny and the other Warner Bros. cartoon characters you mentioned, the Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, and Martin and Lewis all had two things in common that the Muppets did not:
• first, they were all strictly entertainment and not about children's education; and
• second, they all pre-dated the movement for women's equality that directly coincided with the rise of the Muppets.
Most parents of children of the 80s and 90s were eager to teach both their male and female children that women were not just drag queen figures of fun and that males were not the only persons worth taking the lead role. Since the Muppets were promoted as primarily in the business of children's education, the sex balance mattered a great deal; yet it was decidedly off-kilter for the times then and the times now.
I could care less if Henson was gay or not gay. But for whatever reason, he did not present images of a balance of power, interest or inspiration between the sexes.
Darn. Guess I’ll just have to petitio them to build one here.
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