This would be a more appropriate venue:
Huckabee said he sees nothing wrong with “National Same Sex Kiss Day at Chick Fil A,” although he is skeptical of the strategy.
“Probably I won’t be there for that,” Huckabee said. “But so what? That’s America. As long as they’re orderly, as long as they don’t disrupt the flow of customers and traffic — if they believe that will help their cause, to put people of the same sex kissing each other in a public place in front of families, if they believe that will encourage people to be more sympathetic, then, you know, more power to them.
“In America, I believe people have a right to do things that I might not agree with,” he continued. “What I don’t want to do is shut down the voices of Christians because they don’t like those voices.”
In America, we used to take that for granted. Unfortunately, the cities of Boston, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco elected politicians who forgot that America doesn’t require an oath to support The Party as a condition of engaging in commerce. In my new column for The Fiscal Times, I point out that this is an essential ingredient in America’s success from the start by guaranteeing equal treatment and regulation regardless of religious belief or political temperament, and that we risk a lot more than a missed chicken filet sandwich if we forget that:
Until now, we have welcomed people of all faiths and creeds into the marketplace as long as they observed rational and reasonable regulation intended to prevent fraud, theft, and abuse, but without trampling on their ability to abide by their beliefs. In return, a large number of people bring their capital and talent to our markets and generate wealth, jobs, stability, infrastructure, and an increased tax base to our communities. If we force these people to take their capital and exit these markets, it will result in seriously degraded economies, restriction on choice, fewer jobs, less demand, and a lower standard of living – not to mention keep some of the most talented people from addressing the difficult issues that we face.
Our founders understood that explicitly. They saw the disruptions and damage done by religious tests not just for office but also for commerce, and acted to ensure that our governments would not impose such systems on Americans. For more than two hundred years, that freedom transformed us into the most powerful nation in the world, economically, militarily, and politically. Imposing a test for political correctness that excludes tens of millions of faithful Americans cannot help but undermine all that progress as well as our natural rights as citizens.
If government has grown so powerful as to be able to impose and prosecute such tests, then that may be the clearest indication yet that government has grown too large and intrusive to the detriment of all.
Instapundit wrote today that he’s less worried about the impact on our economic health than on the First Amendment — and I agree. But it’s worth considering the kind of damage that the demand for political and religious orthodoxy as a condition of doing business will have on us in the long run.
Meanwhile, at Patheos, Fr. Dwight Longenecker marvels at the success of yesterday’s protest — and then decides it wasn’t really a protest as much as a rally as an expression of “ordinary” Americanism:
The Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day yesterday was historic. It was historic because it marks a new method of mass protest. I even hesitate to use the word ‘protest’ because it wasn’t a protest. There wasn’t any anger. There wasn’t any hate. There wasn’t any bullying. There were no unwashed crowds of unhappy people holding a sit in and causing other people stress, inconvenience and expense. There were no protest signs, no marches, no noise makers and attention grabbers. There were no revolutionary slogans, no clenched fists, no class warfare, no sullen adolescents in a stroppy mood.
The classic signs of a protest movement were absent. If they were not actually violent revolutions, the great protest movements in history have often had violent undertones. Subtle threats were made. Bullying tactics, financial and political pressure was exerted. Guns were wielded. Behind the scenes in smoke filled rooms men did deals and crossed swords to determine the future of millions. In the great revolutions hoards of unhappy people filled the streets, rioting and on the rampage they took what they wanted, killed who they wanted and in misplaced zeal for justice overturned an established order. …
Yesterday’s Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was the sort of ‘revolt’ this country needs, but it was even better than the non violent revolutions and peaceful protests which have changed the world because it was so ordinary. It was just plain, ordinary Americans getting in their cars and doing a plain, ordinary American thing: going out for lunch to a fast food joint. It was just plain, ordinary Americans doing something plain and ordinary, but positive and joyful and good. In buying an ordinary tasty chicken sandwich at their corner fast food emporium ordinary Americans were expressing the wish to be left alone to be ordinary Americans.
After two weeks of highly anti-American behavior by elected officials who should know better, it’s good to see Americans acting like Americans — especially in large numbers. That’s true even of the kiss-in, to whatever extent it succeeds. Let’s debate politics and religious values, while allowing everyone to come to market and make their own choices about who and what to engage there. That is what liberty is all about.
The business of thousands will be overshadowed by the acts of a few in the eyes of the MSM.
Lets make sure Christians do not show up and look like the westbourough church people. The only sign I can see working at the kiss in would be... “Pitty them, they have Daddy Issues”
Lets make sure Christians do not show up and look like the westbourough church people. The only sign I can see working at the kiss in would be... “Pity them, they have Daddy Issues”
have it guys and gals.
There are more of us, we work and we stay hungry.
We’ll just keep eating there and Chick Fil A will continue to profit.
CFA after the hopefully banner day yesterday could pull a fast one on the smoochers.....
Pay its employes for their Friday shifts, and simply not open. Kinda like political aikido...don’t be there for the attack.
Or, we could all go back on Friday and buy more tasty chicken.
The Chick-Fil-A franchise in Nashua, NH will probable welcome the Same Sex Kiss-in. They are hosting a Gay Pride Fest this month.
Read on ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2913370/posts
We should let them know the “kiss in” was moved to Sunday. /s
Good. I visual of who they really are and what they do will harm there cause more than anything we could say.
Play the trump card. Let’s do an “eat-in”. Let them have the drive through.
How much you want to bet they’re hoping to be asked to leave and then use that as “proof” that Chik-Fil-A is discriminatory against gay customers?
Well, there goes my appetite.
This would be a more appropriate venue:
How lucky can you get...
The homos better walk a straight line (pun intended)
Otherwise,it would be really funny if a couple of militant mos got tazed as you are enjoying a delicious banana pudding milk shake.
As long as they’re paying customers, go for it. If they’re just loitering, throw them out. There’s probably even some marketing opportunities franchises could take advantage of.
Is there any indication of a proposed time for the “kiss-in”? I’d like to show up to tell ‘em that God loves them and I’ll be praying for them. That really gets ‘em mad!
