I bitched about it on facebook so I'm gonna bitch here too....

[gateruner]

I'm sick to death of hearing about the whole Chick-Fil-A debacle going on right now. And I think what makes me even more irritated about this is that people are shocked at Chick Fil A's stance. Hello?! They CLOSED on SUNDAY'S people. The company was founded by a "god fearing upright Christian" man who, by the way, established the core values

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[huntersglenn]

It never fails to amaze me how people have no regard for freedom of speech when it's so obvious and scream about it being needed when it's a case of something NOT being covered by it. Don't like the stance of the owner? Don't eat there. End of story. For a mayor of a major city to tell the company not to come? That's someone throwing his weight around where it doesn't belong. And the people who are backing this mayor are probably also out there bashing Bloomberg for wanting to put a cap on soda consumption in NYC. And the sad thing is that those people would never see the contradiction.

People are going hungry in the U.S., people are being bombed in Syria because they don't like their government, and we've got mayors and others upset because the owner of a company doesn't believe in certain things (Dave Thomas didn't believe in abortion, but people still eat at Wendy's), or that some immature woman cheated on her boyfriend, which is only news because the two happen to be stars of a hit movie franchise.

But expect these people to actually put their stomachs where their beliefs are and eat elsewhere? How could we dare to expect them to do that?

[gateruner]

I think it's because people can't handle the bigger issues, so they cling to these sort of issues. And true, they are probably contradicting all kinds of issues with this one.

[huntersglenn]

And people quite often do find themselves agreeing with the whole 'freedom of speech' concept when the said speech is something they agree with. Not so much when it's something they don't agree with.

[gateruner]

Exactly! It's all well and good when it has to do with something they want or support.