feh...
Posted on 04/17/2014 2:03:07 PM PDT by Morgana
NEW YORK, April 17, 2014, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A New York City councilman has effectively told traditional marriage supporters they are “not welcome” in the Big Apple.
In response to Chick-fil-A’s proposed plans to expand their business and set up restaurants in several locations, including New York City, Councilman Daniel Dromm told the Huffington Post that the fast-food chain would not be welcome in the most populous city in the country. Councilman Daniel Dromm
“We don’t need bigots coming to New York City,” Dromm told HuffPost. “They are not welcome here unless they can embrace all of New York’s diverse community, including the LGBT community.”
Chick-fil-A made national headlines in 2012 when CEO Dan Cathy voiced his belief in traditional marriage. His remarks sparked scathing reactions from pro-homosexual politicians and the homosexual lobby.
Despite the onslaught of pro-homosexuality antagonism, the fast-food chain received an even larger outpouring of support after the incident, including a nation-wide “Chick-fil-A Day,” during which the restaurant made record-breaking sales.
Cathy has recently said he wishes to expand the company and consequently not be so vocal about his personal opinions.
This pledge of silence, however, does not placate Councilman Dromm’s desire to keep traditional marriage supporters out of New York City.
“We don’t need bigoted people even keeping their opinions to themselves,” Dromm said. “They need to wake up and see reality.”
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has called Dromm’s remarks “outrageous” and “intolerant.”
“What Dromm has effectively said here is that anyone who believes in marriage as the union of a man and a woman is unwelcome in New York City," Brown stated. “Christians and others are now, it seems, going to be considered guilty of 'thought-crimes' and threatened with all manner of reprisals simply for holding their beliefs."
Brown issued an appeal to marriage supporters to take action by voicing their resentment and offense at Dromm’s statement.
“An individual's own privately-held beliefs,” said Brown, “if they conflict with Mr. Drumm's radical new orthodoxy, even if those beliefs are never publicly expressed, make that person guilty of a ‘thought-crime’ and label him or her a ‘bigot’ that doesn't belong in the Big Apple!”
Brown cited the recent media kerfuffle concerning former Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich’s past monetary support of Proposition 8 in California as another example of the readiness of pro-homosexual lobbies and politicians to jump down the throat and smother all supporters of traditional marriage.
“[Dromm’s] remarks,” Brown stated, “coming amidst a climate of such unseemly attacks on pro-marriage people as we saw with the Mozilla controversy last week, simply reinforce a growing manifestation of hostility and intimidation in the public square toward folks with traditional values.”
While the media was all-too-ready to make Eich’s “controversial” stance known across the world, they have been silent about Dromm’s incendiary remarks. Brown said that Dromm’s remarks “should have stirred public outcry and a flurry of media attention: but instead we hear deafening silence from the media, which is tantamount to a tacit approval.”
Brown is calling on the New York City Council to condemn Dromm’s remarks and issue a formal apology for them.
"Mr. Dromm has alienated and insulted millions of New Yorkers and made them feel like they don't belong in their own home city. The Council should correct this and extend an apology immediately and undo the hurt and wrong that's been done."
yeah sure
on the evil meter we passed S&G quite a while ago.
Is he going to close all the mosques, too?
That is unfortunate, but true. We get them here, in Missouri. They hate [NY, NJ, CA, IL, WI, MA, MD, CT, DE, RI] and cannot bear to live there, yet they move to our neighborhoods and immediately set about remaking our towns in their image. I wish there were a better solution, like Coventry. Or China.
I grew up in the NY Adirondacks. Beautiful land. Real Leave it to beaver kinda place. Once.
Liberals destroyed it. Been out for almost 20 years now. Never went back and never looked at a you tube vid of the place since...until earlier this week. It is a freaking disaster area. And it was getting that way when I left. But now it really is on the way to Detroit. So we may as well use it as a penal colony for the terminally stupid.
Or Cuba. Or Venezuela. Or North Korea.
Endless expansion is a big reason so many retailers get in trouble. Chik-Fil-A can cancel ideas on opening in the Big Anus and still do fine profitwise.
Thats when ‘you’ AKA their neighbors, must exclude them from all normal activities and force them to hate where they live by making their short stay as unpleasant as possible.
hound them at city/town meetings when they try liberalizing your home. Vote them off school boards. Do not hire them.
That’s really great for tourism and business, from a city councilman no less. Could you really be that stupid?
Dromm is an openly queer member of the city council from Queens.. A progressive demorat and schoolteacher elected in 2009 he cares deeply about the children. I bet, especially the boys.
What is he going to do about St. Patrick’s Cathedral? Archbishop Dolan?
Another problem - the Conservative Party has a line on the ballot in NY. Will their candidates be allowed to campaign for office, hold meetings?
feh...
Maybe when they get shut down and thrown out they will decide to fight back instead of pretending that liberals are not really the brownshirts of today. But I doubt it. they have had decades to fight back and instead played nerf darts...at best.
Excellent.
Remember the names... that’s all ill say
When the SHTF and life outside our doors looks like a Fallout 3 video game, this guy and those like him will be enslaved by the ferals they cater to. Which makes me smile. A huge smile.
One need only look to Bosnia or even post WW2 France for what awaits them.
New York's planning on forcing women who believe in traditional marriage to wear a large red "M" - - men will be put in stocks...>
I'm always impressed with the openness and tolerance liberals extend to other liberals.
And as long as conservatives have a monopoly on private gun ownership, we can create a seperatist state. Rule 1: NO LIBS
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