A few thoughts on the brouhaha over Chick-Fil-A:
Several weeks ago, Mr. Dan Cathy was asked where he stood on same sex marriage. He didn’t rant or rave. He didn’t fire back with wrathful invective. He didn’t say that homosexuals would be refused service (or even employment) at Chick-Fil-A restaurants. He simply stated that he stood by the traditional one man/one woman definition of marriage. And everyone went batty.
In the mean time, Chicago alderman Joe Moreno (supported by Mayor Tom Menino) boasted about “denying Chick-Fil-A’s permit to open a restaurant in the First Ward.” His reason? Dan Cathy’s “ignorance.” Ah, we all say. Dan Cathy’s ignorance. So that’s the reason.
Just one thing… what, exactly, is he ignorant about? Health and safety regulations? How the permit process works? Zoning? How to properly make a chicken sandwich? Fry a batch of waffle fries?
Nah. Dan Cathy knows about all these things. He just happens to be “ignorant” of the politically-correct and socially-acceptable position on homosexuality.
And everybody, in unison, cries, How dare he! Tar and feather the bastard!
Can someone get me a napkin? I just choked on the coffee I was drinking.
Now, maybe I’m delusional, but last time I checked, we lived in the U.S. of A. Freedom of speech and all that. Not the dang Soviet Union.
Support Chick-Fil-A Day was an opportunity to stick up for a company that supported traditional (i.e. biblical) family values. It was also about standing against corrupt bureaucrats who think they have the right to punish those who don’t agree with them.
Mark Steyn says it well and forcefully,
It’s bad enough that in a supposedly free society you can’t sell a chicken sandwich to your fellow citizen without buying a bazillion permits from the state. If they can prevent you from selling a chicken sandwich because they don’t like your opinions, then what can’t they do to you?
Who the hell is Tom Menino to say you can’t sell chicken in Boston unless you agree with him? Who the hell is Murray Geiger-Adams to say you can’t tell a joke in Vancouver unless he approves it? Until more citizens of free nations are willing to say to statist hacks “Who the hell do you think you are?,” liberty will continue to bleed.
THE INK SLINGER 
Way to go Ink! Tell it like it is!
:) Thanks Christina!
There’s a brother in our church who is a CFA asst. manager. At his store and others, protesters were cordially served by the staff, had conversations with the owner/manager, even given free ice cream. Their anger was met with civility which took the steam out of their protests. Quite a contrast to the other side.
Quite. Amazing the power of repaying evil with good…
Relieved to know we still live in the USA, but on the other hand, you could have told me that before I bought that expensive course for learning Russian…
Darn it – so sorry about that, Amy. But hey, look on the bright side: you’ll be able to read the novels of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in their original language. :)
Oh yay, there’s nothing better than reading 600 page works in Russian. ;)
Nope. Nothing better. ;)
I can only say one thing… I KNOW, RIGHT?! (Pardon the use of all caps and multiple ending punctuation…)
You are pardoned. ;)
I am so thankful you see past the smoke and mirrors of what really went down on that whole issue. I know thirty-something year-old Christians who were completely hoodwinked into the pc of it all. Poor things didn’t think they could possibly maintain a God-pleasing Christian testimony if they appeared at CFA on CFA Appreciation Day. Ink Slinger, you renew my hope for the future. :)
Thanks, heartndixie – I appreciate the encouragement. :) Tis astonishing how easily some fall into the PC-traps of our day…
Well said Mark, well said.
That article is just one of a million examples why Mark Steyn is my favorite political commentator and one of my very favorite writers.
Thoigh we are removed by time from Chick Fil A appreciation day, what you have to say is still very relevant. I too thought it was troubling the fact that politicians can abuse their political power and wrote about it here: http://veritasdomain.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/chick-fil-a-and-the-danger-of-leftists-politicians/
I had planned on writing this post sooner, but for some reason I never got around to it. Better late than never, I suppose. Who knows, maybe people’s heads are a bit cooler now. :D