The campaign against Chick-fil-A is off-the-rails crazy.
Opposition to gay marriage is not my position, and it may or may not be yours, but it is not a radical one. Even as support for it has increased, there are still 100,000,000 Americans, give or take, who think gay marriage is a bad idea. If you truly believe that they’re all carrying some heinous prejudice, then you’re deranged. They merely disagree with you, and isn’t ideological diversity grand?
Oh, but it seems your “tolerance” pulls up short of differing viewpoints in polite society, doesn’t it?
You know, it’s not like there’s any real support for gay people here either. As Dana Loesch pointed out last night, these nitwits spewing hate at Chick-fil-A haven’t the first problem ignoring or even actively enabling brutally anti-gay policies in other parts of the world. When you support a president who believes in the legitimacy of a group like Muslim Brotherhood, is that not what you’re doing? Want to tell me again how the Taliban should be appeased, as opposed to defeated? How about you spend a little effort on actively undermining religious groups who wish to kill people for their homosexuality?
This whole stink has a lot more to do with hating Christians than it does defending gay people.
Put that in your “tolerance” pipe and smoke it.
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If Chick-fil-a had refused to serve someone who’s gay, then I’d be in favor of a boycott. But privately held beliefs? None of their business.
Doc Zero had this column, which repeats some of your points, Bo.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/07/24/the-chick-fil-a-gay-marriage-controversy/
Right now I don’t particularly like the president, Chik-fil-a, or the Muslim Brotherhood… but Obama and Islamic fundamentalists weren’t getting any money from me in the first place.
I don’t think everyone who opposes gay marriage is a bad person with malicious prejudice, but I do think that their pursuit of some vague ideal is hurting others. What is that vague ideal, anyway? Why don’t we see anti gay-marriage people trying to ban divorce or criminalize affairs & pre-marital sex? I suspect that their “traditional marriage vales” argument wouldn’t get so much traction if it tried to control behaviors of the straight majority.
Meanwhile, the lack of a legal recognition for same-sex partnerships puts some people in a really unfair position. That is really the only issue from my semi-populist, semi-libertarian point of view. It should be one that is easily fixed, but a large number of people who really aren’t effected refuse to budge because of appeals to tradition and biblical authority. If there were secular arguments against gay marriage, we could address those and try to compromise, but you can’t really argue with what someone believes to be the literal and absolute word of God.
Yeah, like •that’s• the demographic Chik-Fil-A is after. If you don’t have two kids in tow screaming to go to the playground and wolf down six chicken nuggets, S. Truett Cathy never wanted you anyway. I’m sure Chik-Fil-A has issued a collective “Meh.”
John, you and I have large swaths of agreement. Personally I would love to see a genuine and sustained effort to restore what’s important about the institution. I think that pockets of what I’d like to see exist, but far too many still get married too young and throw it in too quickly when there is a bump in the road (the two biggest problems in my mind).
I further agree with you on legal obstacles for same-sex couples. There is no good reason they exist.
I don’t believe for a second, however, that the hatred against Chick-fil-A has anything to do with seeking progress. It has to do with hating people of faith. I think the attitude is no less primitive and belligerent than that exhibited by the “Muslim street” at whatever the infidel Americans’ crime of the day is.
Ironic, really.
Good Lord, people have lost their damn minds. Cancer, Rosanne, really??? I am all about someone using their clout as a consumer. I try to avoid putting money in the pockets of Warren Buffett and Alec Baldwin, for example. But I still totally support their RIGHT to piss me off. This nonsense has gone waaaayy too far. You can’t stop a business from coming into a city because you don’t like the religious beliefs one of its owners. Geez!
An eminently reasonable column from a frequently dubious source:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/in-defense-of-eating-at-chick-fil-a/260139/
Maybe common sense has a chance here.
Isn’t this deja vu of a similar situation with Cracker Barrell some years ago? Yeah, that really killed em. Can’t seem to find a Cracker Barrell anywhere anymore…
I think Chik-Fil-A will be happy to be in Woburn or the like and serve plenty of sammiches to the soccer moms. Kim Kardashian? Lindsay Lohan? They know what a Chik-Fil-A is? Riiiiiight.
BamaDan, good call.
I just read there are “kiss-ins” planned at Chick-fil-a locations now. What a bunch of jackasses.
The difference I think is that suddenly it is okay for municipalities to dictate that they will “ban” the franchises and deny them the ability to operate within their cities (Chicago, Boston most recently). Since when is a CEO saying, “I believe in traditional marriage” a reason to deny them business. They are NOT discriminating against any customers or employees or engaging in any other illegal acts are they? Why is this okay with the populace? People forget, when they let it go because it fits with what they like, then they are enabling it to happen when it fits what their opponent likes. Hey Huntsville, let’s ban stores whose CEOS support abortion, okay???
I haven’t trusted Chick-fil-A since they took out the Peach Bowl. That being said, I may sashay on down there this Sunday and order a flaming chicken sandwich.