Jeff G:
So now a Chicago petty tyrant pol joins with the bigoted mayor of Boston to declare that, to the contemporary “liberal,” tolerance is nothing more than policing conformity of thought — and that he will proudly cast himself as intolerant of intolerance!
And if to do so he needs to engage in a kind of thought policing and religious discrimination? Well, too bad. The secular religion of statist authoritarianism demands we surrender such quaint notions as the ungodly and way too fucking forgiving First Amendment if we’re ever going to have true tolerance, where everyone is tolerant of everyone else because everyone is compelled to parrot the same politically-approved speech (and, if we can figure out a way to do so, the same politically-approved thoughts).
Liberals everywhere will cheer this on — even as it is a quite direct statement about the ability of citizens to make choices themselves based on their own beliefs. The government will fight your personal battles for you — once they tell you what those battles are. You, citizen, can just sit off to the side and clap like a trained seal.
Chicago Tribune:
I’m not one for ”fast food,” but I had never been to a Chick-fil-A before yesterday.
They have a kid’s fruit cup that is fresh, large and a good deal.
Their Southwest char grilled chicken salad with spicy dressing was terrific.
Their diet lemonade was excellent.
I’d go back.
When I don’t feel like cooking, that is.
And their employees are taught manners and respect for customers (at least at the ones I’ve been to). You don’t seem to see that to a great degree in other fast food establishments.
@rich:
They are great. Truett Cathy is a class act and a legend here in Georgia. The man and his wife have taken in more than 150 foster children. He walks the walk and talks the talk. All of his establishments are closed on Sunday so the employees can enjoy the day with their family and worship as they see fit.
I’m not a big chicken fan, and I’m trying to watch my weight; but once a week I stop in for a spicy chicken biscuit for breakfast. Truly a classy place.
Christian? Stay away from Chicago.
Stay away from Boston as well.
Chicago and Boston do not want Christians in their midst.
So the Christians should just pull out now, lest they suffer as the Jews did in Hitler’s Germany.
Mayor Rahm has already teamed up with Minister Farrakhan. And that is double plus ungood.
Besides, the murder rate in Chicago is a little high, right now. Perhaps Mayor Rahm should ban all Christian funerals. That will teach them a lesson.
This sounds like a perfect set up for a slander and defemation lawsuit.
@mathman:
Be mindful that American orthodox Christians are trying to preserve the traditional Western institution of marriage. Be mindful that ‘gay marriage’ was pretty unheard of a generation or two ago. Gay marriage is a “right” fabricated by homosexual activists and Gramscian Marxists whose intent was to undermine the foundational institutions of Western democracy.
There is a range of orthodox Christian approaches to homosexuality. If you are not acquainted with that of the most mainstream of those views I invite you to engage the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the topic of homosexuality. Almost invariability however homosexual activists and Gramscian Marxists and fellow travelers aggressively marginalize Christian proponents of traditional Western marriage as homophobic bigots.
One should be mindful that orthodox Islam not only opposes gay marriage, but orthodox Islam deems homosexuals as worthy of the death penalty!
What depths of cognitive dissonance, what depth of bad faith does it take to target Christians and to simultaneous validate Muslims in this regard?