Question for those dining at Chick-Fil-A: How come when YOU deliberately eat there, it's all-American, but when I deliberately DON'T eat there, it's an attack on free speech and freedom of religion, even borderline "religious bigotry"?
Voting with your dollars IS free speech, whether your vote is yes or no. And free speech has consequences. Sure, the Chick-Fil-A has a right to say what he thinks of marriage equality. But that reflects on his business, and as the great Western philosopher Ice-T once said, "Freedom of Speech, watch what you say." We all have the right in a free marketplace to choose whether we support his ideas or not. And increasingly, it looks like anti-equality is bad business.
I make my choices with eyes on my politics, my pocketbook, and my priorities, in an order that varies with my mood-ometer. I tried avoiding Wal-Mart for years but it got too difficult once I had a family. The Pagliais are serious local Republican donors and activists, but they make the best pizza in town so I'm very very happy to give them my money. You try to live a 100% politically correct life on either the left or the right, you get hungry pretty fast.
So congrats to the conservatives who voted with their dollars today. Me? I'm having leftover pasta salad.
The worst.
I'll be putting a locally-raised chicken on the rotisserie instead of eating mediocre fried chicken seasoned with odium, acrimony and rancor.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question John, because in the name of tolerance, Democrats are being intolerant. Whether you like it or not, people are standing up for what they believe in, traditional family values, a core belief. That's not intolerance on their part, it's simply what they live life by. It's specific, a man/woman family stucture. Why is it that believing in a marriage between one man and one woman MUST somehow mean a 'hatred' of gays for many of the liberal stripe? That's simply not true for reasonable folks. It's not about hatred, it simply means that's how traditional marriage folks CHOOSE to live their life, with no slight on somebody else's choice. Eat Chick-Fil-A chicken or don't John, it's up to you. Boycotts are silly and usually hypocritical.
ReplyDeleteHey, until recently Barack Obama was a traditionalist, a believer in marriage being between one man and one woman.....
ReplyDeleteGosh, aren't liberal politics *fun*?
Sicko's rational explanation fails to address just why it is that while "traditional marriage folks" go about "CHOOSING to live their lives" without slight on somebody else's choices", they do strive mightily to actually prevent consensual gays from legally living their choices.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that's a lot more proactive than passive.
Michael doesn't address the reality, has the CEO of Chick-Fil-A obstructed anyone? Nope. Not at all.
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