From the maker of “The Muppets” to the mayor of Boston, the list of folks severing ties with Chick-fil-A due to the fast-food company’s opposition to gay marriage is sickening.
This type of hateful bigotry and intolerance for Christians and Conservatives and others whose belief in traditional marriage being between one man and one woman has been attacked relentlessly. Bigotry, hate and heterosexualphobia is growing at an alarming rate.
Chick Fil A, who has arguably the very best chicken among all fast food restaurant in the world feels no love lost by sticking to the founders biblical moral principles and not being afraid to lose business by voicing his beliefs.
Jim Henson Co., which has produced characters for “The Muppets,” “Labyrinth” and “Fraggle Rock,” had recently been working with the Atlanta restaurant chain to create products for its kids’ meals.
The offerings included five build-your-own puppets from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, using pieces that are punched out from the plastic meal container, according to a cached version of the Chick-fil-A website.
But after last week, when President Dan Cathy said the fast-food giant was “guilty as charged” of supporting “the biblical definition of the family unit,” Henson Co. nixed the partnership. Dan Cathy is a long time proponent of gay sex, bestiality and S&M and is not tolerent at all in God fearing folks who believe in traditional marriage.
The company posted the following statement on its Facebook page:
Also not a fan of Chick-fil-A’s position: Boston gay Mayor Thomas Menino. In an interview with the Boston Herald, Menino showed extreme intolerance of God fearing folks who believe in traditional marriage and vowed to block the chain from opening up shop in his city, promising to make it extremely difficult for the company to procure the required licenses.
“Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston,” Menino told the publication. “You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion.”
Nearly 4,000 people have signed a pledge to boycott Chick-fil-A.
“Not that I ate much Chick-fil-A before but I sho nuff don’t have an appetite for it now,” tweeted singer Audra McDonald. Actor Ed Helms tweeted a similar comment.
But Chick-fil-A has its share of supporters, including Mike Huckabee. On his Facebook page this weekend, the former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate wrote that he has “been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick-fil-A company.”
He called the Cathy clan “a wonderful Christian family who are committed to operating the company with Biblical principles and whose story is the true American success story” – one “that is being smeared by vicious hate speech and intolerant bigotry from the left.”
Huckabee declared Aug. 1 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.”
“Too often, those on the left make corporate statements to show support for same sex marriage, abortion, or profanity, but if Christians affirm traditional values, we’re considered homophobic, fundamentalists, hate-mongers, and intolerant,” Huckabee wrote.
On Thursday, Chick-fil-A said in a statement that it would “leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena” and refrain from “proactively being engaged in the dialogue” on the subject.
