Calls for the boycott of Chick-fil-A following its CEO’s comments in support of traditional marriage is little more than a witch hunt, former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told CNBC on Thursday.
“You just keep seeing this more and more, which is the absolute intolerance of the left in America. There can be no dissent from what their position is,” he said on “The Kudlow Report.”
The idea that the company would face pressure for its leader’s beliefs was antithetical to the idea of the United States.
“This is why the Hugenots came to America,” Santorum said, adding the Dutch Reform Church and Catholics to that list.
“They didn’t want the government telling them what to believe and that they couldn’t say things in public, that they had to keep it to themselves,” he said, or be “barred from doing business.”
Watch the discussion unfold [via CNBC]:
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We also can't let the government force us to believe that homosexual couples are the same as heterosexual couples and that they should thus be treated identically. This Orwellian nonsense has got to stop, and it's up to the Republicans to communicate the message.
Thanks, Rick, for getting out there and spreading the message.
The story would have more credibility if Santorum himself were more tolerant of those born differently than he.
Santorum is an idiot. To compare what is happening with Chick-Fil-A right now to the Hugenots is beyond pathetic. The government is not stepping in and telling conservatives what they can and cannot say. All that is happening is that conservatives are exercising their freedom of speech to be bigots, and others are using their freedom of speech to call them bigots.
What is good for one is good for the other. But, as always, NOM's hypocrisy shines through in their desire to let conservatives scream biblical crap from the mountain tops and ram it down the country's throat without consequence. But, heaven forbid a non-Christian call them out on their stupidity.
Face it NOM, your days are numbered. More and more of the country is seeing you for what you truly are: A bigoted, hypocritical, organization that is so convinced of your own self-importance that you can't possibly fathom that you are anything other than gods on Earth.
Robert -
I suspect that you are intentionally ignoring the statements by government officials intending to shut down or prevent the opening of Chick-Fil-As and that you are trying, here, to re-frame the issue as one of conflicting speech.
Too late, dude; the jig is up, and the fascist, leftist agenda has been revealed to the world; all the name-calling in the world is not going to change that.
The opposition tries to play dumb by equating freedom of speech to government officials shutting down or preventing businesses from operating.
Or maybe they're not just playing and really can't see the difference.
Thank you Rick, for speaking out on the subject.
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On another note:
Libertarian – sick, sick, sick. Money, money, money. Sex, sex, sex. Money, money, money.
Libertarianism – anything goes. As long as a market can be made of it, anything can be bought and sold! As long as a profit can be made of it. Money, money, money. Sick, sick, sick.
Libertarian morals – money “is” the Good. (And they have proof to back it up...!)
To them, “same-sex marriage” literally means the following: “*+/s&];'”
And their only question is (as it is on any subject), can *+/s&];' be transformed into a money making market.
"Overcame"SSA,
If you can show me any legislation, any actual legal actions that show that any government is trying to block Chick-Fil-A from building or coming in to their cities. Right now, it is little more than power-hungry, bloviating politicians grabbing the pulpit. Until you can do that, you have nothing.
I'm only trying to "re-frame" the discussion in to what it ACTUALLY is, a disagreement over social stances and policies. This is a classic example of the hypocrisy of the Religious Right. Their entire stance on political issues is hypocritical. They demand that people follow THEIR point of view, THEIR bible, and THEIR take on the world. Yet, as soon as someone suggests that maybe Christianity shouldn't be the basis for laws, they scream about religious persecution.
The Religious Right, and organizations like NOM, are pathetic hypocrites who need to be exposed for what they are.
And, for the record, if any politician ever actually uses his or her power to block a business, be they liberal or conservative, from doing business, I will be right their protesting that politician alongside you.
Don't ever assume that being against NOM or their hypocritical stances makes me a "leftist." I am a conservative, but not a member of the Religious Right.
Personally, I've never been to Chik Fil A, in fact, I've never heard of them before this, but I will be sure to find out more about them. I hear one is being built in my area this summer. I support family, and family businesses willing to stick their necks out in support of family is a cool thing.
Robert -
So typically liberal, parsing the difference between unconstitutional threats by government officials and the actual acts of government officials.
When Congress declares war on a country, should we interpret that as political posturing by the legislature until the first missile is fired?
You guys got caught and you're trying to explain it away. FAIL.
Rick Santorum, a man of faith and conviction who loves his family dearly.
His input is always welcome. I may not agree with the Big Government policies he supported as Senator but our traditional values are at stake here and he embodies them.
"The government is not stepping in and telling conservatives what they can and cannot say."
When a government official threatens," you will not do business in my town." most people call that tyranny. What do you call it?
And whatever you call it, thank God it's unconstitutional.
Wait, wait - Santorum ended his video by saying that the reason the Huguenots came to America was “They didn’t want the government telling them what to believe and that they couldn’t say things in public, that they had to keep it to themselves,” he said, or be “barred from doing business.”
Ah - am I missing something, here? Was this meant to be ironic? Why would Santorum describe exactly why America is a great country, praise it, then condescend to tell gays that they can't "impose" gay marriage on others?
This country IS a great one! No one can tell anyone else what to believe.
So why is Santorum so hot on the subject of telling gays what they can say or do? Or Muslims, too, for that matter? If two Muslims, inside their mosque, get some marriage counseling - and their Imam settles their dispute by applying Sharia law to the situation - how is it that now, Santorum and his buddies now want to make Sharia law illegal in the U.S.?
Why is he heated up over gays getting married? He is professing to believing in a government where they didn’t want the government telling them what to believe and that they couldn’t say things in public, that they had to keep it to themselves - or be barred from doing business.
How does gay marriage "impose" anything whatever on Santorum? After I got married, Santorum wasn't affected in the slightest!
Go ahead, ask him, and ask any other conservatives who believe gay marriage will hurt them. Did my marriage hurt you? How?
I'm happy with it. I'm happy with my life, and I, too, now, just like you all, can love and lean on my spouse, raise my kids with two parents, and have all the legal rights which my STATE confers upon married couples. Sooner or later, probably sooner, we will also receive all the benefits and rights conferred upon married couples by the FEDERAL government, too. And Santorum, who is deathly afraid that my marriage will somehow hurt him - he wasn't even aware of it!
Can someone explain why Santorum will be hurt by my marriage? Keep in mind that before the marriage, I was living with my 'other half' and raising kids anyway; the marriage was for my peace of mind and for the rights I can now claim. The only difference between Before and After is - I'm happy! Everything people accuse gays of doing - I was already doing Before the marriage. Now, what is different here in the After part, what is different from Before the marriage?
Thanks, anyone who can answer this.
Hey- overcamessa - haven't spoken to you in a while! How ya doin?
Oh, yeah - I forgot to say that, regarding the application of Sharia law - Jews do the same thing. In relations between two Jews, in everything from marriage to divorce, from owning property to how it is shared out upon the death of the owner - there are laws in the Torah that cover these things. Jews have been obeying Jewish law since time immemorial; so why does Sharia law frighten anyone so very much?
thx
Robert claims:
"And, for the record, if any politician ever actually uses his or her power to block a business, be they liberal or conservative, from doing business, I will be right their protesting that politician alongside you."
Menino says:
"Because of (Dan Cathy’s) ignorance, I will deny Chick-fil-A a permit to open a restaurant in my ward,”
Robert, you are faced with certain logical difficulties in your statement above, but that's OK.
Logic has never been a strong suit with respect to marriage corruption advocates.
@ alice
I cannot help you to understand how your "marriage" hurts me. For you are not open to understanding. (And it is not "you" who are hurting me – it is my government and my nation.)
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That I can no longer tell my child, "I want you to get married when you grow up".
That my child can no longer say, "I want to get married when I grow up".
That is how your "marriage" has hurt me. You have taken away the word that allowed me to express in clear precision (with out hate or bigotry) one of the most powerful things that I wanted in my life and for the life of my children – the joining to the OPPOSITE sex!
You cannot understand the violent torment you have brought onto humankind through the confiscation of this word. Or you can pretend that it is of pathetically little importance. But the enormous and deep amount of hurt you have (and are) doing to others is enormous! Such a deep and personal hurt cannot but come back one day, to claim revenge. Its only natural.
You have hurt billions to the core of their being. (From nothing other than the taking of this word "marriage" – it did not belong to you!)
(There is nothing wrong with Sharia law (but its not good for libertarian capitalism) as there is nothing wrong with secular law. And Islam and Muslim”s are one of the shining hopes in our world today, in contrast to the west.)
Liberal politicians can't get around the flagrant and documented hypocrisy with how they react to Chick-Fil-A as compared to radical Islamists.