Evangelical Group: Gov't Leaders' Threats Against Chick-fil-A
'Evident Discrimination'
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July 30,
2012|6:19 pm
The nation's largest evangelical organization, representing more than 45,000 churches, called foul on government leaders who displayed "evident discrimination" against Christian-owned Chick-fil-A by threatening to bar the business from expanding in their cities because of the owner's personal views on marriage.
"Individuals
have the right to decide whether or not to 'eat mor chikin.' But no government
leader should restrict a business or organization from expanding to their
district based on the personal or political views of the owners," said
National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson in a statement
Monday. "Such evident discrimination and attempts to marginalize those
with religious values have no place in American democracy."
The NAE
joins former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and evangelist Billy Graham in
defending the restaurant chain and its president Dan Cathy, who in recent
interviews stated his support for the traditional family unit.
Boston
Mayor Thomas Menino, Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief-of-Staff Rahm
Emanuel, and a Chicago alderman had all swiftly denounced Cathy's comments as
discrimination against part of their city's population, and stated that they
would not welcome Chick-fil-A to their cities.
But
surprisingly, the American Civil Liberties Union, known to be liberal, defended
Chick-fil-A against threats by the elected officials.
"The
government can regulate discrimination in employment or against customers, but
what the government cannot do is to punish someone for their words," Adam
Schwartz, senior attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois,
told Fox News. "When an alderman refuses to allow a business to open
because its owner has expressed a viewpoint the government disagrees with, the
government is practicing viewpoint discrimination."
Similarly,
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended Chick-fil-A's right to do
business in his city and any other city in the U.S.
"I
disagree with them really strongly on this one," Bloomberg said during an
appearance on the John Gambling radio show. "You can't have a test for
what the owners' personal views are before you decide to give a permit to do
something in the city. You really don't want to ask political beliefs or
religious beliefs before you issue a permit. That's just not government's
job."The NAE says it is committed to opposing government interference with the integrity of the family and "innovations such as same-sex 'marriage.'" It also affirms the principles of religious freedom and liberty of conscience.
"If Chick-fil-A is not welcome for embracing traditional marriage, then are Chicago Mayor Emanuel and others saying that evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons aren't welcome either?" Anderson asked.
Huckabee is
calling on people to support Chick-fil-A this Wednesday, Aug. 1,
by eating at one of its locations. So far, some 480,000 people have confirmed
they are going.
1 comment:
[Enjoying your blog, Reformed. Saw this dispatch on exciting web.]
The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad !
(This sinister jihad is part of the end-time "days of Lot" - coordinated worldwide by powerful unseen beings - that Jesus predicted in Luke 17. To see if you are part of this soul-damning craze, read on!)
Google “Zombietime” and click on “Up Your Alley Fair.” After recovering, Yahoo “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up” on the “ucmpage” listing (even Jesus told Judas to hurry up – John 13:27). Also Yahoo “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.”
Read this before the predicted California earthquake happens a la Rev.16:19 (“the cities of the nations fell”) – and before hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and other disasters occur! The fast-moving goal of Gaydom is to quietly sneak its depravity on to every Main Street on earth while normal folks stay asleep and do nothing. I wonder how soon San Francisco's underground saint - San Andreas - will get a big jolt out of the public gay porn that goes on over his head in "Madam" Nancy Pelosi's brothel district in front of children! Not one to mince words, Jesus said in Mark 9:42 that anyone hurting a child in any way deserves to be hanged and have his body thrown into the ocean!
It's far from coincidental that the more America elevates gays and senseless violence (see the predicted "days" of "Lot" and "Noah" in Luke 17), the more the cost of gas, food etc. goes up! If America is smart, it will pick up the big dust-covered book everyone owns and almost never reads - no, not the Sears catalog - and find out that the One who made the universe has some rights too! (Also Google "Obama Fulfilling the Bible.")
Gays like to say that Jesus didn't explicitly mention homosexuality. Well, when gays are about to have a birthday, they don't talk about all the things they don't want. Instead they speak positively about what they'd like to receive. In the same manner Jesus, instead of negatively listing every sexual variation and perversion that He knew mankind would invent, avoided an endless list of "thou-shall-nots" and positively stated that marriage was created for only one man and one woman. BTW, by fulfilling the same "days of Lot," gays are actually hurrying up the return of Christ as Judge and helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(Obama and his porn-protecting California friends - including Brown and Pelosi - did NOT approve of this message.)
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