What I came to find was people going nuts because a rich executive voiced his opinion.....his opinion. Honestly I thought that with all the hoopla the CEO created a policy at Chick-fil-A to not hire gays, which I'm sure is being practiced to some degree because corporate culture always rolls downhill, but that's not the point here. Nope, just some an out of touch conservative suit saying something that we hear from elected officials on a daily basis.
So the guy hates gay people marrying, and he's extremely ignorant for that stance, but come on Chick-fil-A makes a damn good chxsando.....especially that spicy one with the pepper jack.
He should be able to voice his opinions and make delicious chicken, and we should be able to love who we want. Unfortunately this isn't the case because one is protected by the 1st Amendment, and the latter is loosely protected by a handful of states. But let's embrace the fact that he hates gay marriage because he should be free to do so. The same way we should be free to marry whomever, because that what is Freedom is all about. Not having our government there to tell us how to live our lives, and when you deny someone there right to happiness, you deny them everything America was founded upon.
Every once and a while making a similar argument, you'll get the guy who can't draw the moral line and equates being gay to something horrendous......."Well, what if, what makes someone happy is having sex with little boys? Shouldn't he be free to do so if it's what makes him happy?"
Fortunately this isn't how most people think (or I like to think that), and that as a whole America wants everyone to marry freely, because they truly understand what Freedom is. A Freedom that protects Dan Cathy's opinion on gay marriage, should also protect gay marriage.
With that said elected officials from the other side of the isle shouldn't deny Chick-fil-A the right to conduct business and hate gay marriage. Let the consumer (or the hipster in Logan Square) decide if they want a delicious chicken sandwich, and if the market dictates that no one will eat there because you hate gays, then that is what you deserve.
