Lunch counter 2012?

The irony of the Chik-Fil-A drama is that, if Dan Cathy had stayed in the closet, nobody would have known he was a bigot. Oh- they might have wondered but, that's the way people are. But, Cathy opted to get all flamboyant about it. Then, other media types who are like him got emboldened and then came out in support of Cathy. Who knew that Mike Huckabee was that way!? He's like a priest or something! And all of Foxnews! It takes all kinds, I guess. Anyway, I guess bigots have their rights too but, do they have to be so flamboyant? Sheesh- I bet they're going to have parades next!

Republicans, Christian conservatives- all those assholes- are extremely flamboyant these days. But, just when you think it's annoying and you wish they'd shut up, you realize that it's best to have them out of the closet and on the public record. See, these people weren't in metaphorical closets, they were in board rooms, senate chambers- positions of power, where they could use their bigotry at their discretion. It isn't just gays. Gays are a pretty easy target in their eyes, or so it would seem. All sorts of people are fighting back against the Dan Cathy types because they are realizing they could be next. Jesus is famous for saying: "That which you do to the least of my people, you do to me." Something like that. There is more of that every day and conservatives are getting more and more flamboyant about it.

True, in many ways they always have. The Klan and Neo-Nazi's have long held public rallies. Now we have Tea Partiers in costume with weapons displayed. What's the difference?

Acceptance. Or, the perception of acceptance. If ten years ago a fast food chain had an anti-gay or anti-anything agenda, we didn't know about it. Now it's front page news so people can know about it and argue about it.

One of the arguments is "Why should we care what Chick-Fil-A thinks?"

Because corporations are people, my friend. Thanks to the Supreme Court they are free to use their money to manipulate American elections. No, Texas can't execute one but, they are considered *people*. And they are rich people whose opinions matter more than mine or yours because they reach a larger audience than you or I.

What's really offensive is that Chick-Fil-A (which has awesome sausage biscuits, by the way) doesn't at all mind alienating a sizable portion of their market by going out of their way to alienate a sizable portion of their market. Seems like bad business to me. While its not exactly the American apartheid of the recent old South with segregated lunch counters, in almost as bad in that, they'll cheerfully serve anyone but, a portion of the profits goes to discriminating against a portion of the clientele.

So, boycott them for their bigotry? Sure. They came out of the closet and got all uppity and in every one's faces about their bigotry. They asked for it!

Dan Cathy has a *right* to his views and values as well. He's even got a *right*, I guess, to be a bad businessman and brag about his views.

We all have a right to choose a side or even ignore the whole deal. Whether gay people marry or not doesn't affect/effect me at all. It really shouldn't matter to anyone but the gay intendeds anyway. What matters to me is any group of people trying to limit another group's rights. Jesus was against that and so is Ferrerman. Someone has to take on the values of Jesus Christ if the Christians are not willing to do it. Jesus just might have been the founder of the liberals.

And besides, now we're stuck with the dilemma of debating whether corporate bigotry is instilled at incorporation or if it's a business model? I wonder what the Bible says about that.