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Pawlenty calls officials' thumbs down on Chick-Fil-A 'chilling, jaw-dropping'
msnbc ^ | July 28, 2012 | Carrie Dann

Posted on 07/29/2012 5:51:03 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012

CARY, NC -- Fresh from lunch at Chick-Fil-A, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said that officials' public objections to the Christian-owned fast food chain are "chilling."

"Now you have the police power of government intimidating and threatening people, being used to intimidate and threaten people, based on their free speech rights and their religious views," Pawlenty said Saturday of city officials' objections to president Dan Cathy's public disavowal of gay marriage. "I mean it’s chilling. I mean it’s stunning, it is jaw-dropping. And so I think strong people who see this need to stand up and say no we don’t do that in the United States."

Several elected officials, including the mayor of Boston, have said that they will discourage the opening of new Chick-Fil-A franchises. Pawlenty noted said that he had sampled Chick-Fil-A's products for lunch earlier Saturday. "It was awesome," he said of the chicken strips and waffle fries he ordered.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boston; chicago; chickfila; homosexualagenda; mn2012; pawlenty; rahm; timpawlenty; tpaw
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1 posted on 07/29/2012 5:51:08 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

It is not only chilling, it is illegal under the Constitution. More importantly though, Jesus reigns and these evil jackals will be unsuccessful in bringing down those who have built on a solid foundation.


2 posted on 07/29/2012 5:54:58 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ilovesarah2012

There can be no doubt that libs and perverts have declared war on conservatives and Christians.


3 posted on 07/29/2012 5:55:22 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: yldstrk

will NOT be successful


4 posted on 07/29/2012 5:55:39 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Pawlenty knocks it out of the park! Liberals don’t understand the 1st amendment.

Here the battle begins, can we now finally throw the Democrats out of office?


5 posted on 07/29/2012 5:57:03 AM PDT by King_Corey (www.kingcorey.com -- OpenCarry.org)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“jaw-dropping”

And that is EXACTLY our problem. To be surprised by the reaction of these mayors shows just how TOTALLY INEPT our highest-level politicians are, on our side.

If the mayors had said something like: “If Cathy every enters my city, he’ll be jailed on hate crime charges”, then yes, that would be jaw-dropping.

But blocking legitimate businesses has been a tactic of the left FOR DECADES and it’s time some grabbed “our leaders” by the sleeve and TOLD THEM THAT!!!!


6 posted on 07/29/2012 5:57:16 AM PDT by BobL ( It's easy to be a saint when you have nothing on the line)
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To: ilovesarah2012

How about conservative media calling the entire Obama agenda what it is: The War on Christians.

Let’s see how that resonates across the airwaves and on the internet.


7 posted on 07/29/2012 5:58:20 AM PDT by txrefugee
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If Christians don’t realize there is an active and orchestrated war on Christianity, they have not been paying attention!


8 posted on 07/29/2012 6:02:28 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Scratch a liberal, find a totalitarian.


9 posted on 07/29/2012 6:04:18 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: ilovesarah2012
I don't want to hear anyone ever again criticize Sarah Palin’s stream of consciousness speaking style, since it seems veep hopefuls are now adopting it, albeit very clumsily.

She does something, the rest come a-running to do it too, just amazing. Whether it's an audience with Donald Trump or dropping into embattled Chick-fil-A in a show of support, the immediate me-tooism has become all too obvious.

Why, again, are these cardboard cutout candidates deemed more electable?

10 posted on 07/29/2012 6:05:27 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ilovesarah2012

Everything liberals do is based on their emotional beliefs of politics. I know liberals that will not eat at CFA because “they’re Christian”, as they say in total loathing.


11 posted on 07/29/2012 6:06:56 AM PDT by CodeToad (History says our end is near.)
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And that is their right. If you don’t agree that a Christian has the right to express his or her view, who cares? However, it works both ways. Liberal perverts don’t seem to recognize that.


12 posted on 07/29/2012 6:09:26 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

Don’t think business executives aren’t paying attention to this and will remember it when it comes time to decide where to move or expand.

Who would want to invest money in a place where the political class can turn on you for frivolous reasons and make your investment worthless?


13 posted on 07/29/2012 6:12:53 AM PDT by DManA
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To: RegulatorCountry

I agree, Tim “Good N’ Paw-lenty” just wanting to still be in the running but Im have to say I was not impressed when he was running as a presidential hopeful. He seemed not much better than other RINOs like Hucklesby, McCain or Romeny.


14 posted on 07/29/2012 6:15:07 AM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: yldstrk

The game began with the national media and Anita Bryant, back in the late 70’s.


15 posted on 07/29/2012 6:20:02 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

That’s right, let’s keep those Jews out.

Make them paint a Star of David on their window so we know who they are.

What?

Sorry, my bad.

Wrong year and wrong country.

Don’t worry boys and girls it could never happen here.


16 posted on 07/29/2012 6:22:00 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: King_Corey

Some liberal believer in free speech took it upon himself to remove my anti-Obama bumper sticker the other day. As I told my wife, that just gave me the OK to go get something really offensive like “prove you’re stupid, vote for Obama.”


17 posted on 07/29/2012 6:26:22 AM PDT by cyclotic (People who live within their means are increasingly being forced to pay for people who didn't.)
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To: DManA
Last week my son had a seminar at school. There were about a hundred students. Lunch was included in the day's schedule. Since the union school workers are on summer break and would not serve lunch, a group of parents placed a hugh delivery order with Chick-Fil-a. The teachers and administrators were visibly upset, but could not do a damn thing about it. The kids went nuts over the lunches and asked to have them served on a regular basis.

The caveat is that they came out to be cheaper than the regular school lunches on a per person basis...............

18 posted on 07/29/2012 6:26:47 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

How utterly disgusting and base for elected political hacks to be pedestalizing a very small segment of people who turn their backs on God and shove their pee-pees up another man’s poo-poo!

Do these idiotic politicians, and their drooling sycophants, actually believe that homosexual behavior is a good thing for this nation? Do they truly believe that it’s a glorious and ‘natural’ thing to sponsor people of the same sex to wed? What kind of society are these weasels micromanaging? They use the military as a kind of laboratory to test these satan-inspired ideas. They’re rather like a Doctor Mengele.

Next, brothers and sisters can wed thanks to the state and central socialist governments, but they’re not fooling me! Homosexuals are inherently pedophiles they prey on young children.

Is this the next stepping stone for the Great Society?

This is an evil, disgusting society where people like the ‘late’ Michael Jackson and others who call what vomits from their mouths and their on-stage behavior music. It is far from music, but it is intended to scandalize and lower the morals of the youngsters of America.

All this descent into hell, where the leftist politicos hold our youth by the hand, telling them what was bad is good and what was good is bad: masturbate, sodomize, kill 55 million innocent babies.

Tie a millstone around their necks.

And another thing. Those that continually indulge in homosexuality over time have warped their little gray cells. Many ignore the statistics that many of the serial, or mass murderers were, in fact, practicing homosexuals.

So continue to grovel before and support the homosexual agenda and your asses will surely be voted out and you may return to your home districts and chase little boys....and girls.

America will NEVER recover morally or economically until these evil politicians and all homosexual agenda sycophants are recognized and quarantined.

Pass the Chic-Fil-As.


19 posted on 07/29/2012 6:35:40 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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To: blackdog

Thanks for sharing this Black Dog!


20 posted on 07/29/2012 6:36:57 AM PDT by IbJensen (If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed)
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