Some of the best common sense writing on the whole Chick Fil A controversy, has been authored by my Canadian counterpart in a couple of really great posts. As I noted previously in my own post-" I think this whole outrage over the remarks of Chick Fil A's president is just silly. "
That said however-now that the who's who of GOP douchebaggery has gotten involved, I would not eat a Chick Fil A sandwhich right now, if it were the only food available to me. Its not that I am such a flaming advocate of gay marriage, but when Sarah Palin becomes involved then, to paraphase Churchill: "I would at least make a favorable reference to buggery in the House of Commons".
The best question my counterpart asks is, "Why did we get here at all?" Why was Dan Cathy so f*cking stupid as to put his franchisees at risk-and even worse-why did liberals snap so quickly at something that the Sean Hannitiy's of the world live for?
As I explained in my previous post, I think Dan Cathy is a coward. If he owned and operated his restaurants or if Chick-fil-A was a publicly traded company, I doubt that he would be showing the courage of his convictions the way that he is.
Instead, he's forcing independent franchisees to take the hit for him. And am I the only one who's wondering how Dan would feel if those franchisees put out press releases saying that he's full of shit? How far would their free speech rights be respected? Would national Republicans be standing up for their rights en masse? Of course they wouldn't.
The conservative "free speech movement" is every bit as duplicitous as the liberal one is and it's time someone called them on it
He makes a great point. Chick Fil A is primarily a southern institution, and while they are attempting to branch out across the country, long term issues like this will hold them back. No matter how many fat people show up to eat their sandwhiches.
While I'm on the topic, this isn't just about gay marriage. If Dan Cathy is the God-fearing Christian that he portrays himself to be, and places his marriage statements on "biblical definitions," it follows that he just doesn't like queers very much because the Bible certainly doesn't. But he doesn't have the balls to say that, does he? The chapters of Bible relating to gays don't mention their marrying at all. But it does sanction their being killed. Absent scripture, it's logically difficult to oppose gay marriage, and scripture clearly teaches that gays should be put to death.
Based on that alone, I can hardly fault gays or the people that support their rights for not wanting to eat there. More importantly. superstitious Republicans were lining up in support of Chick-fil-A's stand before there was a wider controversy. Mike Huckabee, who once opinied that the Bill of Rights should be replaced with the Ten Commandments, started the stupid idea that Jesus types eat there today before anyone else piled on.
As I write this, half of all Americans support gay marriage. Pretty much everyone knows or loves a gay person at this point. Dan Cathy is playing to Southern evangelical yokels, which is his primary customer base. But that base, regardless of what shithead radio talk-show hosts and hucktering politicians wish to be true, is shrinking dramatically.In making the statement he did, Cathy limited his own company's growth potential. If you wonder why I can't bother getting so upset about this, now you know.
Sometimes it is not just enough to be right. You have to present your rightness in an acceptable fashion-and that’s something the Chick Fil A supporters are not being required to do because, as he firmly points out, liberal America is enabling this particular stupidity.