In case you’ve been living under a news blackout rock, let me fill you in on the Great Chicken Flap. Chick-fil-A, a family-owned fast food chain headquartered in Atlanta, inspired a vigorous wave of protests due to its opposition to gay marriage rights and financial support of pro-hetero marriage groups.
Supporters of same sex marriage – including the mayor of the city of Boston – howled in protest after the company’s president told a Christian news organization that Chick-fil-A supported the “biblical definition of the family unit.” Those who oppose same sex marriage responded by flooding restaurant locations with long lines and appreciation days.
As regular readers know, I’m . If you’re gay and you want to get married, that’s just fine with me. I think our society should support loving, committed relationships, regardless of sexual orientation. I think that “pray away the gay” counseling is insulting and silly. And we have way bigger things to worry about as a nation than whether or not Elizabeth and Amy can join in state-sanctioned matrimony.
Nevertheless, real “tolerance” comes in many forms. And I can’t help but notice that people who claim to love tolerance are tolerant only of those people who agree with their own views.
You’re pro-gay-marriage? Great, join our kiss-in! You’re an evangelical Christian? Go eat a processed-chicken sandwich and have a heart attack, you evil, hate-mongering bigot!
The people on both sides of this debate are unlikely to change their views anytime soon. But I suggest that the best way to encourage tolerance among those who oppose your view is by demonstrating tolerance yourself.
Let’s keep in mind that organized religion and faith in God – whomever you believe Him to be – has been around for thousands of years. Faith has provided the backbone of existence for generations of families in our nation and beyond.
Faith is patient. It is slow to accept change. Its bureaucracy does not respond easily to even abhorrent allegations – as a Catholic, I can tell you that firsthand. The fact of the matter is, even if same sex marriage supporters put Chick-fil-A out of business, that won’t alter a religious conservative’s viewpoint – in fact, it may result in deeper entrenchment and bitterness.
Also, let’s not forget, civil rights are for everyone, not just social liberals! The Cathy family has every right to send money to political groups that support their beliefs. S. Truett Cathy, the company’s founder, was a deeply religious man. Dan Cathy, his son, has always expressed his opposition to same sex marriage. This isn’t even the first time that same sex marriage supporters have demonstrated against Chick-fil-A.
If you support same sex marriage and it bothers you that Chick-fil-A sends some of its profits to pro-hetero groups, send a message with your dollars and eat elsewhere. Alternatively, demonstrate peace and love by taking the venom out of your actions. Spewing socially liberal bigotry via grandstanding letters, vandalism and hate-filled Facebook posts only demonstrates your own intolerance for religious freedom, and mobilizes those who oppose you into action.
But most importantly, remember that the Cathy family is expressing its Constitutional rights, as you are expressing yours.
The fact is Cathy wants to impose his religious views on our society in direct opposition to Separation of Church and State.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ZlUDbBUyQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Obama has also proposed a solution of having insurance companies directly providing services,which they are happy to do as it keeps their costs down, But of course these religious organisations are not happy unless they can control women's private lives.
It is ridiculous to say you do not want to pay for abortions while also trying to deny women access to birth control.
It is not that he does not share my views, it is that he is promoting hate and harm and in the case of Uganda death to others.
tol·er·ance noun 1. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry. 2. a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own. 3. interest in and concern for ideas, opinions, practices, etc., foreign to one's own; a liberal, undogmatic viewpoint. 4. the act or capacity of enduring; endurance: My tolerance of noise is limited. 5. Medicine/Medical, Immunology . a. the power of enduring or resisting the action of a drug, poison, etc.: a tolerance to antibiotics. b. the lack of or low levels of immune response to transplanted tissue or other foreign substance that is normally immunogenic.
ac·cept·ance [ak-sep-tuhns] , noun 1. the act of taking or receiving something offered. 2. favorable reception; approval; favor. 3. the act of assenting or believing: acceptance of a theory. 4. the fact or state of being accepted or acceptable. 5. acceptation ( def. 1 ) .
I am a straignt male and I whole heartedly support "same-sex" marriages. Unfortunately, there appears to be a great many people, who, for whatever reason. don't. Are they wrong? Yes and no. Their beliefs are as valid as mine. I many not aggree with them, but they do have have right to feel that way. It's only when they try to shove those beliefs down other people's throats, that piss me off. let's make a deal, I'll respect your right to an opinion, but allow me the same courtesy. As I don't believe in a God, along with a lot of people, stop using that tired argument that "he" is against this or any other action or life style you find objectionable. If you really disagree with Chic-fil-A's policy, simp;yy don't eat there. And as I've never seen one in Rockland, that point becomes moot. Lisa's correct on all points. There are a whole lot more important America faces than whether Joe and Jim get married or Alice really needs to get an abortion. These are their rights and not your's to belittle or condemn. Think about how much time and effort you've spent discussing these issues and what positive things you could have accomplished instead of spouting these same old tired arguments, which really haven't done anything, except polarize us more.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. This story is getting old; DON'T EAT THE CHICKEN IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THE GUY PERIOD.
What you want to do in your private life is NO concern to me EXCEPT if you want me to validate your actions. I don't really want to know about it either. Stop sticking in our faces!!! Marriage is between a male and a female.
Getting to the post, if you own a business chain, why would you make a statement like that? That's idiotic, it's like you purposely want to lose customers. And I completely agree with @WGMom post..