When the donations of owner of Chick-fil-A started to go to
places that among other things had official stances against gay marriage the
public became suspect of the faith based fast food chain. When the owner was asked about gay marriage
he stated that he believed in a Bible based marriage that recognizes solely the
joining of a man and a woman, all suspicions were confirmed and now Chick-fil-A
has become a nothing short of modern Nazi régime.
But let us wait a minute here. The owner of Chick-fil-A never said he
supports the illegalization of gay marriage.
The owner never said that if someone is homosexual they are terrible
people. In fact there are homosexual
employed at Chick-fil-A. He was asked a
question (no doubt to stir up controversy) and he answered honestly.
There are now protests and articles, and blogs attesting at what
an evil corporation Chick-fil-A is, have we all lost our minds?
The CEOs and owners of Wal-Mart are one of the largest
employers in our country, yet their employees have no health care and fall
under the poverty line because they fail to pay adequate wages, where are the
protests? Apple has been accused of
atrocious crimes of starving, overworking, and putting their employees in
dangers environments to make a cheap popular phone. Apple does not give money to charities and
they force workers to sleep on factory floors, yet we dare not protest one of America's
most favorite products. In fact, the
former deceased owner Steve Jobs has been lifted up as on iconic hero of
marketing and technologies. Companies that
employe children in dangerous factories and sweatshops dehumanize workers
making them nothing more than slaves are our favorite brands that escape the
scathing eyes of justice.
Chick-fil-A has donated millions to charitable organization
and gives their employees a day off to be with their family on Sunday, yet we
have made them our modern society's villain.
Are we truly so blind?
Are we so focused on specks that we fail to notice the logs in people's
eyes? If you believe Chick-fil-A's
ideology is wrong that is one thing, but to put their actions above the
atrocities of Syria, Apple, Wal-Mart and other power hungry companies enslaving
people overseas in unhealthy work environments is a sign we have truly lost our
moral compass here in the United States.
We have become such disoriented wanderers in the pursuit of
our sexuality that we have lost our eye on justice, mercy, compassion, and
love. Can we not open our eyes and ears
and put first things first, can we not recognize good and evil? Don't get me wrong, I am against all kinds of
hate, but I do believe the words spoken by Chick-fil-A may not be words we all
agree with, but they were not words of hate.
We are a lost nation, and either the voices of modern
prophets will turn us around into the direction of love and compassion, or we
will wonder as shepherdess sheep right of the cliff of selfish obsession. Let us become a people concerned with true
justice, true mercy, and let us not become distracted any longer by the perception
of noble causes.
I suggest you listen to Cathy's remarks in interviews other than the one most people list as their "reason for being angry". Here's a direct quote- "It’s very clear in Romans chapter 1, if we look at society today, we see all the twisted up kind of stuff that’s going on. Washington trying to redefine the definition of marriage and all the other kinds of things that we go—if you go upstream from that, in Romans chapter 1, you will see that because we have not acknowledged God and because we have not thanked God, that we have been left victim to the foolishness of our own thoughts, and as result, we are suffering the consequences of a society and culture who has not acknowledged God or not thanked God—he’s left us to a deprived mind. It’s tragic and we live in a culture of that today" This was from a speech Cathy gave. This sounds a whole lot like Louis Gohmert's "the shooting in Aurora happened because Christianity isn't forced upon the masses." (Paraphrased)....or here's another excerpt from the Ken Coleman show, where Cathy stated "“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is about.” Sounds pretty inflammatory. He clearly stands for the stance of marriage being defined as DOMA defines it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this isn't about chicken. Yes, every company you patronize will, in some form, be committed to a cause you disagree with. But people are, and have a right to be, outraged. I suggest you listen to some of the hate speak that is being promoted by "good Christians" about this issue. The Southwest Tea Party tweeted multiple hate-filled statements, using the terms "fag scum" and "sodomy based faggot marriage" in their support of Chick-Fil-A. Its sickening, yet where are the Christians who are outraged by this? It's a case of selective outrage, and both sides are guilty.
Very well written and so great points made.
ReplyDeleteisnt how we really feel judged by God, I'm not really bothered by who marries whom but then again I'm not God. Thank God!
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