Carol Rose, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
..about what I expected
Posted on 07/30/2012 6:54:25 PM PDT by markomalley
If you support Chick-fil-A in the face of left-wing nutcase attacks over the restaurant chain’s support of traditional marriage, ACLU of Massachusetts Executive Director Carol Rose has some advice:
“Did you see that politicians Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee are now trying to rally all homophobes to eat at Chick-fil-A? I’m thrilled. In fact, I encourage all bigots to load up on transfats and carbohydrates. Go ahead — eat your heart out on the “Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit” breakfast! Mmmm.”
Presumably, her idea is to trigger heart attacks.
In her July 27 ACLU blog post entitled “Menino v. Chick-fil-A,” Ms. Rose revealed Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s peculiar understanding of the word “freedom” in his rant to Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy. “There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trial and no place for your company alongside it,” Menino declared.
So far, Mr. Cathy, who in an interview published July 16 in The Baptist Press defended marriage and the “biblical family,” has earned scathing threats from liberal officials in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago, and the list grows. In San Francisco, Mayor Edwin M. Lee tweeted: “Closest #ChickFilA to San Francisco is 40 miles away & I strongly recommend that they not try to come any closer.”
Down the coast in Orange County, protesters on Thursday mobbed the grand opening of a Chick-fil-A store in Laguna Hills, forcing the cancellation of a camp-out for free meal tickets. One marcher dressed as Jesus Christ held a sign saying “No H8.” Another sign said, “God Hates Hate.” One woman in a chicken suit had a placard proclaiming, “Corporate profits should not fund hate groups.”
Not to be outdone, on Friday in Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray joined the mob by sending a tweet calling Chick-fil-A “hatechicken.”
But, back to the ACLU and its supposed protection of our First Amendment rights. Ms. Rose, whose Chick-fil-A piece first ran on July 26 on The Boston Globe’s On Liberty blog, described the city’s imbroglio as merely “a war of words,” and noted that a Chicago alderman’s threat to deny a building permit to Chick-fil-A might give “Mr. Cathy a pretty strong claim under the First Amendment that he is a victim of viewpoint discrimination by a government official.” Well, bully for that!
Finally, her dietary advice is eerily reminiscent of USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux’s remark on PBS in 1994 that she wished newly confirmed conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas would fall victim to unhealthy food. Malveaux said:
“You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.”
This bizarre comment earned Ms. Malveaux the Media Research Center’s coveted “I’m a Compassionate Liberal But I Wish You Were All Dead Award.” Someone ought to nominate Ms. Rose for the honor.
August 1 is Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, when regular people who support marriage, dislike attacks on free speech, or just want to tweak bullies — while having a delicious and nutritious chicken sandwich — will be showing up en masse at one of the chain’s more than 1,600 restaurants.
This is a game of chicken with constitutional consequences.
Carol Rose, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
..about what I expected
Yup.
They don't sell burgers, just chicken. Good chicken. Really delicious chicken on wheat buns, hold the butter, with extra lettuce. Yum.
And great waffle fries, and fruit bowls, and salads, and ice cream. Awesome fresh lemonade, too.
With wholesome books in their kids' meals teaching family values; clean restaurants with friendly, helpful staff, playgrounds that don't smell like a dog's behind, and restrooms I'm not afraid to use.
We were regular patrons long before all this mayhem and foolishness hit. We'll be regular patrons long afterwards.
Leave the political correctness to all the other places that sell processed chicken parts, infused in some funky bread coating, that need dipping sauce to have any taste whatsoever.
They sell burgers now? Fancy that.
Under Obamacare, she’ll get that Addadicktome she desires!
She should get her thyroid checked.
“They don’t sell burgers, just chicken. Good chicken. Really delicious chicken on wheat buns, hold the butter, with extra lettuce. Yum.”
They look like burgers, but with weird (and very tasty) appendages sticking out (especially the ones yesterday). So I’ll continue to call them burgers.
“We were regular patrons long before all this mayhem and foolishness hit. We’ll be regular patrons long afterwards.”
I NEVER went there until last Friday, when I decided it was time to take a stand. I’ve been PERFECTLY HAPPY with McDonald’s for decades and will stay that way (until In-and-Out makes it to Houston, that is) - sorry if that bothers the anti-Walmart and anti-Microsoft bunch. But there is only so much abuse this conservative will take. I’m still a McDouble and Double-Double person at heart - but Chick-a-fill now has a spot in the rotation...after I recover from eating their food daily (except Sunday), probably for 2 weeks solid.
“They sell burgers now? Fancy that.”
See my prior post.
LOL! It's scary, but it DOES happen on occasion!
The original Nazis were homosexual in the oldest cadre. Himmler cleaned a bunch of them out because they were disgusting the Army officers (whose support Hitler needed).
Nevertheless Nazi in-house propaganda material frequently featured crypto-homosexual softcore stuff, such as cover photos of Signaal magazine, the Nazi Party magazine, full of manly SS troopers of the Afrika Korps bathing al buffo along a Libyan beach.
They punished some homosexuals ..... but not for being homosexual. Rather, they punished them for acting out, or not putting out, or for being ..... difficult. Meanwhile, the sub rosa perv culture of high Nazism went on.
That cow is one of the most hateful, malevolent women on the planet.
It’s amazing how leftists love to wish death on those who do not agree with their positions.
Just like the Khmer Rouge, the VC and the Viet Minh.
IMHO
Rahm Emanuel: No regrets on my Chick fil-A comments
BY FRAN SPIELMAN
City Hall Reporter
fspielman@suntimes.com
Last Modified: Jul 31, 2012 02:22AM
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday he has no regrets about saying that “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values” because the company president opposes gay marriage.
“No. I don’t” regret it, the mayor said under questioning at an unrelated jobs announcement.
“And the simple reason is, when it comes to values, there’s a policy as it relates to gay marriage. The values of our city are ones that welcome and recognize that, and I will continue to fight for that.”
Last week, Emanuel hinted strongly that he was prepared to join Ald. Joe Moreno (1st) in blocking Chick-fil-A from opening its first free-standing Chicago store in Logan Square.
Both men cited Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s public opposition to gay marriage.
They aren't fooling anyone.
She has a face like Don Rickles.
That’s my point. I was agreeing with the article of the thread. I’m not afraid of fags. I just do not enjoy their company. I do not hate them. I have worked with several in days of yore. We got along because they did not push their lifestyle choice like the current crop does.
But the bottom line is; unless they repent and forsake that stuff before they pass on, the wrath of God awaits. He has provided a Savior for all of us. If they reject Salvation, they’re doomed; exactly like any “straight” will be who spurns God’s provision of a Savior.
Not surprisingly, the stick bundlers have created a lovely little FaceBook page:
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