{"id":5371,"date":"2012-07-31T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2012-07-31T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:09:01","slug":"do-you-hold-your-president-to-the-same-standard-as-your-fast-food-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5371","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hold Your President To the Same Standard As Your Fast-Food Restaurant?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got our last shot at a family summer vacation recently, which is why I’ve been quiet around here. Niagara Falls was wonderful. Thanks for asking. And actually it wasn’t the entire family. My son had marching band camp last week, so my wife stayed here with him for that. Band camp was so early because school starts so early; August 6! And there are some metro Atlanta schools starting this<\/em> week, in July! Maybe they’re trying to ease us into year-round school.<\/p>\n

Over vacation, something of a brouhaha got started around a statement by Chick-fil-a CEO Dan Cathy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The company invests in Christian growth and ministry through its WinShape Foundation (WinShape.com). The name comes from the idea of shaping people to be winners.<\/p>\n

It began as a college scholarship and expanded to a foster care program, an international ministry, and a conference and retreat center modeled after the Billy Graham Training Center at the Cove.<\/p>\n

"That morphed into a marriage program in conjunction with national marriage ministries," Cathy added. <\/p>\n

Some have opposed the company’s support of the traditional family. "Well, guilty as charged," said Cathy when asked about the company’s position.<\/p>\n

"We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that.<\/p>\n

"We operate as a family business … our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that," Cathy emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Combine this with previous statements and look at where the Cathy’s give money, and the worst-kept secret of Chick-fil-a was "exposed"; the Cathy’s are against same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n

This prompted shock — SHOCK — among a group of big city mayors. Boston mayor Tom Menino<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s no place for discrimination on Boston\u2019s Freedom Trail,\u201d Menino wrote to Cathy<\/a> in a July 20 letter, \u201cand no place for your company alongside it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Los Angeles mayor Edwin Lee:<\/p>\n

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\u201cClosest #ChickFilA to San Francisco is 40 miles away,\u201d tweeted<\/a> San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee on July 26, \u201c& I strongly recommend that they not try to come any closer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said something similar. <\/p>\n

All this because the CEO of Chick-fil-a has the same position on same-sex marriage that President Obama had up until six months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian \u2014 for me \u2014 for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God\u2019s in the mix.\u201d – April 17, 2008, while running for president, defining marriage at the Saddleback Presidential Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The previously link Washington Post story also has this addendum.<\/p>\n

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Since making their initial comments, Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel have sought to clarify that they do not intend to use city resources to block Chick-fil-A\u2019s permitting efforts on account of CEO Dan Cathy\u2019s political or religious views. They stand by their comments, however, that the stores do not belong in their cities.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So no organization who’s CEO’s personal beliefs don’t line up with the mayor’s is not welcome. This from the "tolerance" brigade? Does anyone on the Left side of the aisle see the irony here?<\/p>\n

And if it’s just about same-sex marriage, why this<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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After supporting a call to block Chick-fil-A over the religious views of its management<\/a>, the Chicago mayor welcomed an army of men dispatched to his streets by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, the Chicago Sun Times<\/a> reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Islam doesn’t permit same-sex marriage, either. In fact, in Islamic countries, homosexuals are killed. No (honest) Christian is suggesting that be done. If you accuse Christians of having a persecution complex, you must reconcile shunning a Christian-owned business over a widely held Christian belief with welcoming Muslims that have the exact same one.<\/p>\n

And this just in: I hear that, in order to faithfully represent the values of Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, Chick-fil-a will now start murdering people and selling meth. But maybe that’s just a rumor.<\/p>\n

Finally, Mike Huckabee has organized a "buy-cott" of Chick-fil-a for tomorrow, August 1st. There’s an official Facebook event page<\/a> for it that Huckabee started, as well as one that suggests taking a picture<\/a> of the restaurant you go to in order to show how big the crowds are. I’ll see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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