An
Updated Version of My Last Chick-fil-A Blog
Especially
in the light of that dreadful bullying incident in Arizona, I’ve updated my
blog on Chick-fil-A, dated August 1st, 2012
Scathing
Responses To Dan Kathy and “Chick Fil A”???
Incredible!
From ABC
News.com/Politics:
Mayor Menino wrote a scathing letter to Cathy last Friday
urging him to keep his restaurant out of Boston.
“I was angry to learn on the heels of your prejudiced
statements about your search for a site to locate in Boston,” Menino wrote.
“There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place
for your company alongside it.”
Menino clarified his remarks on Thursday, noting that
while he use the “bully pulpit” to discourage Chick-fil-A from coming to
Boston, he would not deny the restaurant the necessary city permits to open in
the city.
Days after Menino’s harshly-worded letter Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel levied his own criticism at the restaurant, saying he does not believe
Cathy’s comments “reflects who we are as a city.”
“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values,” Emanuel
said Wednesday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. “And if you’re gonna be part of
the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values.”
San Francisco became the third city to turn a
cold shoulder on Chick-fil-A when Mayor Edwin Lee tweeted his distaste for
the company’s anti-gay stance on Thursday.
“Very disappointed #ChickFilA doesn’t
share San Francisco’s values & strong commitment to equality for everyone,”
Lee tweeted, adding in a subsequent tweet, “Closest #ChickFilA to San
Francisco is 40 miles away & I strongly recommend that they not try to come
any closer.”
My Response:
I’m incredulous… Mayor Menino and
other U.S mayors wanting to ban “Chick-fil-A” from their cities?! And
all because its founder, Dan Cathy, wants to believe as Jesus did that marriage
is a sacred bond between a man and a
woman?! (Mt. 19:4-6)
Is this crazy or what? Thankfully
Mayor Bloomberg from Yankee Country (NYC) had the intelligence to sound off about
the issue with a position statement that still respects the parameters of
common sense, and more importantly, the Bill of Rights protected by the
Constitution of the United States.
Honestly, what are those others
mayors thinking? Personally, I was embarrassed to be represented by some
liberal politician who makes Boston sound like some sort of Police State. Mayor
Bloomberg is right when he says that “You can’t have a test for what the
owners’ personal views are before you decide to give a permit to do something
in the city. You really don’t want to ask political beliefs or religious
beliefs before you issue a permit. That’s just not government’s job.”
Exactly right!!! And God help us if
we move even one step in the direction of the other mayors’ directives.
Especially disturbing is the allegations by Mayor Menino of discrimination and
prejudice directed at Dan Kathy for thinking differently from the powerful
Liberal Left lobby in this country. God forbid. I mean what is this country
coming to?
And
I’m sorry – shame on the people who constantly tell me not to speak my beliefs
for fear that they might offend others, the people who remain silent in an
effort to be kind and compassionate toward others. I am kind and compassionate.
Dan Cathy is too. But he, as well as myself, do not intend to remain silent
when we constantly see the scathing anger and intolerance directed at the
bedrock values upon which this country is founded. Can’t anyone see the anger
and intolerance toward Christian values and teaching reflected in the words of
these of these U.S. mayors? That’s the real issue here: intolerance toward
Judeo-Christian values, and the censorship of any and all speech that disagrees
with the Liberal agenda in this country.
Be silent in an effort to be kind? Bullcrap!
I’m going to say “Merry Christmas!”, not “Happy Holidays!”, and tell those
offended people to be kind and tolerant toward me and to respect my freedom of
speech protected by our Constitution. And don’t give me that hogwash that
because I want to believe in Jesus and His teaching, I’m prejudiced, or that
I’m discriminating and want to treat certain people as less than equal. Not so!
And should I be “banned in Boston”
when I say “Merry Christmas”? Or if I refuse to say “Winter Tree” instead of “Christmas
Tree”? If so, then that is discrimination – to deny access or full
participation in society based on race, color, or CREED!
God forbid that Chick-fil-A, or some
other business should publically say, “Jesus is Lord!” in Boston. God help
them. Perhaps we could set aside one of the islands in Boston Harbor as a
prison where we could put such people – and all political dissidents, or more
specifically, all who dare to think differently from the Liberal Left in this
country.
I really do have a message for all these
people who accuse others of “hate”, “prejudice”, and “discrimination” simply
and solely because they believe differently than the Liberal agenda in this
country:
“Grin and bear it!”,
as they say. And thank the God that you may or may not
believe in that you are free to dissent from the majority consensus in this
country.
“Grin and bear it!” And
thank this God that the majority rule in this country gives you that freedom to
dissent, that they don’t instead try to incriminate you and put you into prison
for believing differently.
“Grin and bear it!” Even
get down on your knees and thank this God that you’re not in Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Libya, Egypt, or Indonesia – never mind Syria! When you are there don’t ever
act offended, insulted, or discriminated against when the majority around you
gives “Praise to Allah!” You’d be in for one “hell of a shock” at what will
happen to you.
Forgive my rant, but all this is so maddening.
I can remember the story in a Catholic high school near by where a non-believer
would take down the cross off the wall while he was teaching, and not allow one
in his homeroom – in a Catholic school mind you! The administration of the school
allowed such behavior in the name of tolerance and so as not to give offense.
Hello?! Where was the teacher’s mandate to be tolerant and understanding toward
the mission statement of the school that paid him: to make Christ known! There
it is in a nutshell - intolerance surrounding us everywhere today permitted,
condoned, and countenanced in the name of tolerance and compassion – it is all
so absurd, and it has to stop, or the cherished biblical values of our
country’s founding documents will soon fade from the public forum, and our
country as we have known it will soon cease to exist.
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