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Deroy Murdock brilliantly razes the leftist edifice in this column on the Chick-fil-A controversy.
While I differ with Cathy, however, his views are neither extreme nor medieval. Indeed, on May 8, they mirrored Obama’s definition of marriage. That was the day before Obama parroted Vice President Biden and endorsed gay marriage. Obama instantly “evolved” and told ABC News on May 9: “It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that same-sex couples should be able to get married.”Cathy is being excoriated as a homophobic Neanderthal while just four months ago Obama’s position on gay marriage was equally prehistoric.
Rather than combat this year’s 39 percent spike in homicides in his town, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel pole-vaulted into this fracas.
“Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values,” Emanuel declared. If that’s true, Obama similarly lacked Chicago values while Emanuel was his chief of staff. Evidently, that did not bother Emanuel at the time……
Gay activists could encourage people to patronize Starbucks or simply avoid Chick-fil-A. That’s not good enough. Instead, some on August 3 will stage a National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chicks-fil-A nationwide.
Painting heretofore relaxed straight people into a sexual corner is no way to engender gay-friendliness. How would gay activists like to see social conservatives deploy squadrons of husbands and wives to penetrate gay bars and commence male-female lip-locking?
This fiasco confirms the intolerance of the supposedly “open-minded” American Left. Rather than simply dispute or debate Cathy, they immediately pilloried him and vilified those who share his traditionalist outlook.
Murdock is right, on both the Left’s hypocrisy and its totalitarian tendencies. Let freedom ring.
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Teflon93 | 8.3.12 @ 11:32AM
What a bigot---oh wait, he's a gay marriage proponent? Whoops.
Murdock remains a top conservative thinker who really deserves a bigger stage.
Quin Hillyer| 8.3.12 @ 1:31PM
I agree.
Libertyinfinite| 8.3.12 @ 11:50AM
It doesn't really have any effect on the issue to talk about this when the new leader of the right is the one who signed gay marriage as governor. The right has resurrected Washington Irving (wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) & become the headless political side this year.
What has romney said nothing? Oh, same thing he always says. I guess everyone else is the horse (s' @ss)
Tom Kyba| 8.3.12 @ 1:33PM
The gay activists are desperately hoping that this whatever-in will result in some of them getting sh**-kicked while the organizers sit like chickens(pun intended) on the sidelines declaring the results as proof of the country's homophobia.
Hooray for liberals!
spike59| 8.3.12 @ 4:07PM
well, all 5 who showed up need not have worried
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.3.12 @ 2:11PM
"While I differ with Cathy..."
I think here is the problem with many of today's conservatives.
Quartermaster| 8.3.12 @ 3:19PM
Yep. Too many so-called conservatives are Ok with perversion. That is not Conservative in any way. Murdock has micu wrong with his views and has been given too much of a platform in Conservative publications. People like him and the coward Rich Lowry have transformed National Review from a Conservative mag to a moderate rag that occasionally publishes good things.
Oldefarte| 8.3.12 @ 3:22PM
Apparently this is """""Chicago Values""""" :
'....A Torrance Chick-fil-A has been vandalized with spray paint on an outside wall reading “Tastes Like Hate,” KFI reports. It was done in a design similar to a Chick-fil-A ad campaign, complete with a drawing of a cow with a paintbrush. This follows the fast food restaurant being embroiled in controversy over its opposition to gay marriage..... This happens just ahead of a “kiss-in” by gay rights activists and other gay marriage supporters at Chick-fil-A restaurants to protest the chain’s politics. On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of customers showed their support for the restaurant during an “Appreciation Day.” Chick-fil-A says it set a one-day sales record on Wednesday.....”What's next, defecating on cop cars?
At the center of the storm is free speech, which progressives oppose for any ideology that does not mirror their own. They hide their real intention while claiming that they're fighting Chick-Fil-A because the restaurant franchise supports "killing gays in Uganda," a shameless lie already completely debunked. By the way, I'm sure the person doing the vandalizing drove to the establishment after filling up their gas tank with OPEC product, an action which just financially supported countries who rule that simply being gay is punishable by death. Sadly, I wouldn't be shocked to see more leftist vandalism, bullying, and threats of violence before the close of business......'
Oldefarte| 8.3.12 @ 3:59PM
PS: "....Vante of Tucson, AZ Regrets Actions of Former CFO ....Employee Has Left the Company TUCSON, AZ--(Marketwire - Aug 2, 2012) - The following is a statement from Vante: Vante regrets the unfortunate events that transpired yesterday in Tucson between our former CFO/Treasurer Adam Smith and an employee at Chick-fil-A. Effective immediately, Mr. Smith is no longer an employee of our company. The actions of Mr. Smith do not reflect our corporate values in any manner. Vante is an equal opportunity company with a diverse workforce, which holds diverse opinions. We respect the right of our employees and all Americans to hold and express their personal opinions, however, we also expect our company officers to behave in a manner commensurate with their position and in a respectful fashion that conveys these values of civility with others.
We hope that the general population does not hold Mr. Smith's actions against Vante and its employees..."
Oldefarte| 8.3.12 @ 4:02PM
PSII: I would definately take note and comprehend the fact that most all companies have the software capabilities to monitor employees' company-computer emails etc and to react accordingly!!!!!!!!!
spike59| 8.3.12 @ 4:06PM
ObaMao's views have revolved; and the Left just kept spinning as usual