Chick-fil-A Chickens Out

The Left is trying its hardest to make Americans, and
therefore America, think, talk, walk, eat, drink, and vote
as they tell us to. Being good little totalitarians, they
realize that they have to get everyone on the same page,
bar none, in order to transform our country into something
which we would not recognize and would want nothing to
do with, but they themselves would be deliriously
happy with. One of the ways in which they are trying to
accomplish this is to apply political and economic pressure
to businesses which either openly espouse support for
traditional view of marriage (heterosexual only) or keep
quiet and neutral on same. They try to force companies
to cease financial contributions to organizations which
these lefty "social justice warriors" deem bigoted,
reactionary, and anti-LGBTQ, such as the Salvation Army
and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; these two entities
had long received such financial gifts from Chick-fil-A,
but that is over and done with thanks to a successful
campaign by the aforementioned far left-wing bullies.  

The backstory: in 2012 Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy,
a committed evangelical Christian, cheesed off these
enlightened souls by his own support for the traditional
view of marriage. A vicious political campaign was raised
against them, which included a boycott of their restaurants.
Earlier this year, three U.S. airports denied Chick-fil-A
concessions contracts --- no Chick-fil-As to set up shop
on their premises. Soon after, the campaign crossed the
Atlantic to pressure the landlord of the site where Chick-
fil-A was to open the first of their restaurants in the U.K.
Although the restaurant organization has, in fact, never
turned away customers which were openly gay or at least
thought to be by the restaurant managers, and has hired
openly gay people to their staffs, the lefty loudmouths
have accused the company of supporting organizations
"hostile to LGBTQ rights" and causes. 

COO Tim Tassopoulos recently announced that Chick-fil-A
will no longer give money to the "offending" organizations.
All this firm and its restaurants want to do is serve chicken
sandwiches and waffle fries, the likes being magnificently
delicious (yes indeed, your beloved Peasant has visited a
couple of Chick-fil-As here in the Milwaukee vicinity and
thoroughly enjoyed my meals!); they don't seek to wage
political fights over the rights and wrongs of the morals
regarding sexual behavior. And given their welcoming gay
patrons and employees, how have they harmed gay people,
or any of the other people represented by the other letters
in the name of this cluster of sexual grievance groups?
Whatever happened to the right of someone holding
and expressing an opinion which may not, at least in
some quarters, be popular, as long as they are not trying
to force it upon others? Seems that the Far Left has
become the biggest practitioners of this hostility to
First Amendment rights. And whenever they gain a
victory as they have in this instance, they become more
emboldened, they have more swagger, and they think
that they are invincible. To see Chick-fil-A knuckle
under to these totalitarians, even after weathering
boycotts and business property management owners
backing out of leasing deals while picking up the
patronage and the support of a growing number of
loyal customers, is not only disappointing,
it's sickening.

Add to all this is the fact that these LGBTQ radicals
do not speak for all gays or other sexual preference
groups; your inquisitive Peasant has heard gay people
call in to conservative radio talk shows, local and
national, stating that these rowdies neither speak nor
act for them. I have also read letters to the editor of
newspapers and magazines from gay readers to that
effect. But the LGBTQ crowd and their social justice
warrior allies never take "no' for an answer when they
declare their purpose and intentions; they have even
less time and patience for those whom they purport to
speak for when the latter do not accept them as their 

leaders and spokespeople than they have for the 
"usual suspects"; straight, white, male, heterosexual, 
politically conservative of politics and conservative 
of religious faith. 

And these putrid people claim to be doing all this in
the name of tolerance and diversity. God help us if
they ever decide to embrace intolerance and
homogenization! May Chick-fil-A locate their 

corporate spine and stand up to their oppressors 

and send them into full retreat.


MEM