Chick-fil-A, Gay Marriage, and Your Grandchildren

Chron.com ^ | Aug 2 2012 | Chris Ladd

[scottjewell]

It’s hard to read about...Civil Rights... without playing a game of ‘what would I have done?’ ...

This spring when Obama described his “evolution”... I felt like I could relate...

When... people rise up and demonstrate their commitment to their rights... how do you say no to them in good conscience?

... one is inevitably reminded of the Civil Rights Movement. The pattern of non-violent resistance adopted by Martin Luther King had a complex beauty, operating at one time on so many levels...

The Civil Rights Movement placed the burden of black suffering squarely on the plates of people all over the country who otherwise felt that they had no part in Jim Crow oppression. It forced citizens [to choose sides]...

I can still make an esoteric argument that gay marriage is meddling or social engineering or whatnot, but I have lost my ability to put my soul behind it. Maybe you can sit across the table from a beloved friend and tell them that your straight family is more legitimate, more right, more legally and politically appropriate than theirs. Perhaps you can look into the eyes of people you care for and respect and explain that providing their children with the full legal protection of an official family would threaten something...

I am not going to do that. Eat your sandwich alone.

Before you put down that shake and reach for your Bible, let’s make something clear. According to the Bible, marriage is a sacred covenant between one man, one woman, his additional wives, his slaves, his wives’ slaves, his concubines, virgins he’s caught raping, and any women he happens to capture in battle...

This week that line of dead-enders stretches out the door of the Chick-fil-A.

Enjoy that sandwich. Your grandchildren will be so proud.

[sportutegrl]

Before you put down that shake and reach for your Bible, let’s make something clear. According to the Bible, marriage is a sacred covenant between one man, one woman, his additional wives, his slaves, his wives’ slaves, his concubines, virgins he’s caught raping, and any women he happens to capture in battle...

God's Divine plan for marriage is one man and one woman. The best thing you can say is that HE allows multiple wives. He does not require them, (Sorry Mormons and Muslims). He simply does not make an issue of it. But they are not His intention for us.

Matthew 19:8-9 8 (Jesus) said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality,[d] and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

Jesus seems to be saying that some things were permitted under Old Testament law, but they were not the Lord's plan for us. When he says that if you divorce your wife and marry another you commit adultery, I think that implies that you shouldn't have another wife.

[shatcher]

Marriage is about family. When you look at all the countries of the world throughout history, marriages are for the purpose of creating a family.

Marriage is a religious institution. If you look for the marriage records of your ancestors, you find them recorded in churches and other religious institutions. That is the ONLY place you can find them.

Marriage is about stability. The children in our country are in trouble. The ones that come from single family homes are in the biggest trouble. The children from same-sex homes crave the attention of the gender of the missing parent. They know something is missing instinctively.

Same-sex marriage is not the end-goal. I am not sure what it is, but I can guarantee if they win this one, the next step in their fight will start immediately; as it was with DADT in the military.

The media has brainwashed a majority of the country into believing the Christians and Republicans hate homosexuals. The people who saw the Chick-Fil-A appreciation day as a movement of hate were told that by the media. Show me one picture of hate expressed that day. There could be one, but I haven't seen it.

Love the sinner, hate the sin. They are attacking marriage and we are defending it peaceably.

[scottjewell]

Exactly. And the left's portrayal of Chick-Fil-A supporters is more and more capitalizing on the civil rights meme, rather that morality which you rightly point out.

[scottjewell]

Right all the way...

[shatcher]

Every time someone in the OT has more than one wife it turns out bad. If your doubt this, show me the example where it turns out well.

Just because God didn't forcibly prevent a man from marrying more than one wife, did not mean he allowed it. The Bible contains a written history of what men did even when it was contradictory to God's plan.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Never mind HIV, saliva and blood (unless they're your wait-perthson)

It's the handle of the water fountain, or bathroom door, or whatever.

There is a myriad of other disgusting contagions carried by the boy-raping horn-dogs, and who knows where those hands have been?

[trailhkr1]

AND....homosexuals admitted to having eaten or handled the feces of their partners. Their spit is definitely a health hazard.

Pretty slim...if not nil. Most std's and diseases in general other than common colds (which can be caught airborne) for instance need actual skin to skin contact.

[Ohioan]

Another reasonably predictable consequence, largely unanticipated by Reformers in the 1960s, was the coming agitation to expand the original matrix: Thus demands--some already fulfilled--to add "Sexual Orientation" to the list of forbidden considerations in employment & housing. Since we do not have a policy of snooping into people's bedrooms anywhere in America, forbidding discrimination on the basis of "Sexual Orientation" is not just about forcing people to hire or rent property to those whose conduct, people of Biblically based faiths consider to be an "abomination." It is about forcing people to hire or rent to those who have elected to flaunt offensive conduct. Those who keep private things private, are really not affected one way or another.

The above is from the current feature at my Conservative Resource Center (Social Reform: Confusion or "Unintended Consequences?".)

Of course, the whole concept of "Civil Rights," is misunderstood by most of the population--no accident, since it has seldom been objectively discussed in the media. What are referred to as "Civil Rights" differ from what the Founding Fathers referred to as "Liberty," in that they flow not from the Creator, but from Legislative Acts, that actually infringe on the natural rights in one's own property or community. Rejecting the demands & values of the "Civil Rights Movement," is not the same thing as being anti-any group That is always a false argument.

William Flax

[trailhkr1]

There is a myriad of other disgusting contagions carried by the boy-raping horn-dogs, and who knows where those hands have been?

Yes, could get e-coli for instance ..wash your hands and you will be all right. I always use a paper towel when opening the bathroom door of a public bathroom.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I don’t know what you might catch, but the filthy pederasts carry hepatitis, syphilis, and gonorrhea and many other diesases.

I usually pull my hand inside my sleeve to grab the door coming out of a public restroom, a problem in warm weather.

[scottjewell]

Thank you for that. Excellent stuff, too bad more people are not as astute as you.

[trailhkr1]

I usually pull my hand inside my sleeve to grab the door coming out of a public restroom, a problem in warm weather.

I would not do that..better to carry in paper towel..I HATE bathrooms with no paper towels and only have those air dryers.

[Tired of Taxes]

... one is inevitably reminded of the Civil Rights Movement. The pattern of non-violent resistance adopted by Martin Luther King had a complex beauty,

Non-violent, eh? Apparently, this writer didn't see this video. He also must've missed the graffiti on a Chick-Fil-A restaurant and all of the obscenity-filled anti-Chick-fil-A comments on the internet, too.

The Civil Rights Movement placed the burden of black suffering squarely on the plates of people all over the country who otherwise felt that they had no part in Jim Crow oppression.

So, in this twisted piece of logic, the writer thinks the two issues are related.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Well my way, if the house catches fire, and we run outside and it’s raining, at least I’ll have one foot dry.

Your way, you’ll be standing in the puddles in your stocking feet.

[revo evom]

There is so much estrogen in our water supply and misunderstood/misdirected adolescence testosterone, the gay section of the Bell curve has widened.

The result is what we are living through now, a sort of "gay bubble" not unlike economic bubbles, such as the housing bubble or tech stock bubble or political bubbles like the one for the One, Bubble Head Obama.

Sooner or later we figure it out and the bubble pops. (Addios, BHO!)

For the gay bubble, the Chick-Fil-A dust up is an aneurysm, likely fatal.

[scottjewell]

Good way of putting it!

[scottjewell]

“So, in this twisted piece of logic, the writer thinks the two issues are related.”

Right, he’s bought into the whole civil rights analogy. To him, Jim Crow and Chick-Fil-A are all of one cloth.

[scottjewell]

THANKS for linking to that article; I added homosexual agenda keyword so it will list in that too.

[GOPJ]

The problem with the cartoon is it's a lie. Just like most of the rhetoric out of the gay movement. And NO, gays wanting marriage to be between any and all groups is NOT civil rights.

Blacks fought for the right to vote, to eat in the same restaurants and to sit where-ever they wanted buses trains, public transportation ... among other things. Their cause was just...

There is not ONE restaurant in the United States that will not serve gays, there is NOT ONE place in the United States that has 'separate but equal' schools, libraries, drinking fountains, hotels, etc... It's all a lie.

What gays want is for marriage to become meaningless. If two men can marry - why not three men? Or one man and 18 wives?

Blacks were discriminated against wrongly - so why can't a man marry his dog? That's what liberals think of as 'logic'?

The argument will come down to what 'groups' can marry and at that point marriage will be destroyed. We have the right to object. Conservatives have 'human rights' too..

Gays can create domestic partnerships - and if they put enough thought into it, who knows, maybe some straights will switch over to 'domestic partnerships... there are options. One option they can't have is to destroy the best most natural way to raise children and to keep a society strong... a man, women and children as a family...

[scottjewell]

Absolutely right in all you say here.
If only more people could see this. It’s so obvious to us, why not to them? I suppose the Left has been being brainwashed for so long, dating back to the ‘60s, that it is susseptible.