the chickety chicken debate
on the topic of the chick-fil-a thing.
while *i* personally do not choose to patronize them because of the Anti-Gay causes they openly support (and if they choose to support them NOT so openly, it doesn't change my opinion--Don't Ask Don't Tell doesn't cut the honey mustard for me), i also do not feel it is up to a government official to ban the restaurants from doing business until they change their opinion.
it's the exact same principle as is not up to the government to ban gay marriage for everyone else because that government official doesn't agree with it. it's a personal choice what people do or don't do.
so buy their chicken or don't buy their chicken. marry a gay person or don't marry a gay person. the government should not be involved in making those decisions.
even if the restaurants were refusing to sell chicken to gay people, banning the restaurant is not how to solve the issue. you take them to court and let justice prevail that way. fighting discrimination with discrimination doesn't HELP.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/chick-fil-a-gay-marriage-chicago/2012/07/26/id/446713
“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.”
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while *i* personally do not choose to patronize them because of the Anti-Gay causes they openly support (and if they choose to support them NOT so openly, it doesn't change my opinion--Don't Ask Don't Tell doesn't cut the honey mustard for me), i also do not feel it is up to a government official to ban the restaurants from doing business until they change their opinion.
it's the exact same principle as is not up to the government to ban gay marriage for everyone else because that government official doesn't agree with it. it's a personal choice what people do or don't do.
so buy their chicken or don't buy their chicken. marry a gay person or don't marry a gay person. the government should not be involved in making those decisions.
even if the restaurants were refusing to sell chicken to gay people, banning the restaurant is not how to solve the issue. you take them to court and let justice prevail that way. fighting discrimination with discrimination doesn't HELP.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/chick-fil-a-gay-marriage-chicago/2012/07/26/id/446713
“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.”
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comments.