Matthew Shaffer, a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute, writes:
... the facts show [Chick-Fil-A founder Samuel] Cathy to be a generous philanthropist who devotes millions to uncontroversial education charity; who gives some thousands more to Christian groups; who admits that for theological reasons he opposes the legal institution of same-sex marriage, but isn’t preoccupied by it; and who doesn’t exclude from his charity socially conservative groups. Reasonable people can disagree with WinShape’s requirements for couples on its marriage retreats and dislike aspects of Focus on the Family’s research and advocacy. But no reasonable person can see proof of frothing anti-gay bigotry in Samuel Truett Cathy’s donations, especially when his own words convey “love and respect” for same-sex-marriage advocates.
Activists are obviously welcome to protest and withdraw their patronage from any business, especially one whose political advocacy they disagree with. That’s democracy. But if we really want to “stop the hate” — and we should stop hate where it actually exists — we should look elsewhere than Chick-fil-A and the aged philanthropist at its head.
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Speaking of hate, please see my earlier post regarding something that came out of South Africa:
Speaking of the media, I came across a very disturbing article regarding freedom of speech and the press coming out of South Africa. Read this and feel the chill of the thought police and modern-day anti-liberty liberals:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixUGyyaj9eWX0Sxvu2mVeze_p8CQ?docId=cdf781a4dd6f4756bf5c4434b24eea95
And note that South Africa is the only nation on the African continent that allows SSM. When SSM comes, freedom goes . . .
Actually SC Guy, your implication is not true. South Africa has a problem with a thing called "corrective rape," in which bands of men rape lesbians to "make them" heterosexual. Also, several activists in South Africa have been brutally murdered - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/4982520/Lesbians-subjected-to-corrective-rape-in-South-Africa.html
Truly, it is an act of nithinghood.
Time to go to Chick-Fil-A today. Showing my support, and I love their food.