Thoughts on the "Chik-fil-A Hate a Gay Day"
I was thinking about this last night on my commute home. I work near the Pentagon and there is a Chik-fil-A right down the block from my office. I heard it was packed yesterday and that ABC7 News was there doing interviews. I started thinking about the lunch counter sit-ins during the Civil Rights era and how this, in a way, is a perversion of those sit-ins for equality. Instead of moving forward, evolving, it seems when it comes to marriage equality and the LGBTQ community in general, we are devolving. This was a sanctioned, publicized and encouraged, public outpouring of bigotry and no one participating seems to get that or cares that what their actions portray.
Could you imagine if the Chik-fil-A CFO was in favor of bringing slavery back, or was publicly in favor of denying women the right to vote. Would it have been okay for Huckabee to go on TV and proclaim and day of appreciation for Chik-fil-A? No, it wouldn't have been but because it is okay in the minds of these people to hate gay people publicly, to demean us, to deny us equal protection, they make a damn party of it. It sickens me that somewhere as "progressive" as the NoVA area is purported to be, that the local Chik-fil-A was packed and that people don't have a clue what their presence there yesterday signaled to anyone paying attention.
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It was about religious freedom, not hating gays... I am FOR gay marriage, but also for free speech, and freedom of religion. Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A stated an opinion, he didn't discriminate against gays.
If Ben and Jerry's and Starbucks can hold liberal / progressive beliefs, than why can't Chick-Fil-A hold conservative beliefs (even IF they are misguided)?
Rahm and the other mayors were the INTOLERANT ones. I didn't hear people calling the president a bigot, when he had the same opinion of gay marriage... Funny how that works.... 
I'm afraid in changing his mind, President Obama will hurt his reelection chances, even though I support him and support equal marriage rights for gays. The black pastors came out in force last week and will continue to gain coverage until November.
Its the money they gave to HATE GROUPS.
But to a lesser extent it is the opinions. As an LGBT supporter I'm somewhat less than inclined to give my money to someone who thinks my LGBT brothers and sisters are "sinners" or "broken" etc. On a personal note Dan KKKathy can go fuck himself with a cactus.
