Posted on 07/27/2012 11:40:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Although the ACLU strongly supports same-sex marriage, a senior attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois warned that if Chicago bans Chick-fil-A over the religious views of its management, it will be engaging in "viewpoint discrimination," Fox News reported Thursday.
“The government can regulate discrimination in employment or against customers, but what the government cannot do is to punish someone for their words,” said ACLU senior attorney Adam Schwartz.
“When an alderman refuses to allow a business to open because its owner has expressed a viewpoint the government disagrees with, the government is practicing viewpoint discrimination,” he added.
Chicago Alderman Proco Joe Moreno said he intends to block the chain from opening its second Chicago location over president Dan Cathy's position on gay marriage. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel supports Moreno's position.
Schwartz explained to Fox that "if a government can exclude a business for being against same-sex marriage, it can also exclude a business for being in support of same-sex marriage."
“But we also support the First Amendment,” Schwartz said. “We don’t think the government should exclude Chick-fil-A because of the anti-LGBT message. We believe this is clear cut.”
But Moreno has already said he is not concerned with the First Amendment.
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I’m loving this whole CFA Appreciation Day thing..
It’s a giant “collective” middle finger from America to the left...
Good job, Chick-Fil-A!!!
You nailed it NFHale. I had a good time going down to my local CFA.
It’s hilarious to know this was a big middle finger to the Left. The people from PETA were out there too. People just chewed with their mouths open in approval. /s
The groups are joined at the hip. This was like a one stop thumb in their eye to all of them.
You know, seems to me that if tolerance and acceptance is what the deviants want they only thing they’d have to do to basically just live is - LIVE - and leave other people alone to mind their own business.
Acting like buttwipes, protesting, screaming, and generally just being a pain in the *sss (no pun intended) to folks is a sure fire way NOT to have people accept you. It’s like crying “RAYYYCIIISST!!!!” all the time - sooner or later, people will just say “Fine. So I’m a Racist. So what are YOU going to do about it...” You just get sick of hearing the same old crap from the same old people.
Personally, I’m sick of their whole agenda. It’s about time folks stood up to the leftards and their retarded subgroups.
This was a good day. I’m glad to see it happened on such a large scale.
Glenn Beck was ALL over this. Gotta hand it to the guy; he throws himself into the arena big time.
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