Goose Vs. Chicken Eggs: Yet Another Reason Why Chik-fil-A Loves Traditional Marriage

RAHM EMANUEL'S INSISTENCE that Chick-fil-A bow to the icon of gay marriage had (a polarizing) effect, at least upon some. Chick-fil-A is not about gay marriage or Christianity at all, any more than the incident of William Tell was about a hat. It’s about power. It is morphing into an overt test of whether the cultural elite can have its way. The problem with National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day is that it constitutes an act of open defiance by manifesting all too publicly the contempt that a fairly large segment of the population has for shibboleths of political correctness.
---Richard Fernandez @ Pajamas Media

FOUR  FAILURES (OF DISCERNMENT) IN THE CHIK-FIL-A CONTROVERSY

THANKS C! One pic is worth a thousand goose eggs.

APPRECIATION DAY Wednesday was just another big ordinary, dull day at Chik-fil-A, by Fr. Dwight Longenecker:

Yesterday’s Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day was the sort of ‘revolt’ this country needs, but it was even better than the non violent revolutions and peaceful protests which have changed the world because it was so ordinary. It was just plain, ordinary Americans getting in their cars and doing a plain, ordinary American thing: going out for lunch to a fast food joint. It was just plain, ordinary Americans doing something plain and ordinary, but positive and joyful and good. In buying an ordinary tasty chicken sandwich at their corner fast food emporium ordinary Americans were expressing the wish to be left alone to be ordinary Americans.

There were no protest signs (except from a few glum pro-gays who said we were eating ‘hate’ sandwiches) There were no noisy, angry scenes. Folks in the drive through lines did not honk their horns or proclaim their Christianity with bullhorns. There were no statements against homosexuals or homosexuality. (Indeed, the only statement put out by Chick-Fil-A affirmed their commitment to serve and employ all people equally without notice of race, gender, age or sexual orientation.) The brilliance of the event that it used the network of a nationwide fast food chain as the foundation for a visible, peaceful, creative nationwide statement.

There was no bullying, no hateful anti-homosexual loud mouthed preachers. This grace, patience gentleness and community good humor contrasted with the ugly and spiteful comments from the ‘other side’. Nobody wished their enemies to get cancer the way ‘comedian’ Roseanne Barr proclaimed. Nobody was using back room political and financial pressure to bully the majority of Americans the way mayors of Boston, DC and Chicago were doing. For all the talk of the traditional marriage supporters being full of hate, there was not hatred apparent. It was just ordinary suburban Americans sticking up for their way of life by buying a chicken sandwich with their friends and neighbors. These were not scary people like the folks from Westboro Baptist who tote guns and hate homos. They were the folks next door.

Yesterday’s demonstration was a truly American form of revolution. Where else could it happen but the USA?

Kiss In at various Chik locations. I wonder if these drama queens really think outlandish behavior, hatefulness and emotion demands will help their cause? Principled people---especially those who believe in freedom of politically incorrect speech and freedom of religion---don't bend to tantrums and dramatic outbursts. Still these immature people will have to find it out for themselves.

MEANWHILE IN TUCSON WEDNESDAY, this misguided (former) CFO at Vante Corporation made a video of himself bullying a Chik-fil-A drive-up window employee and promptly got fired. Where do these people get the idea that CEO Dan Cathy's belief in the principles of the Bible and holding to the concept of marriage being between one man and one woman is hateful? It's simply astounding and embarrassing:



Today's press release from Vante apologizing for Mr. Adam Smith's ill-advised harassment.