"But the dinner invitation from Marci Alt and wife Marlysa, who live near Chick-fil-A’s Atlanta headquarters, is no paltry piece of paper, it is backed by an online petition sponsored by Change.org, an online organizing platforms for activists, and GLAAD, a gay rights advocacy group.
“I hope Mr. Cathy will join my family for dinner, where we can share a respectful dialogue about our faith, work and families here in Georgia,” Alt said in a statement. “It’s important that Mr. Cathy meet the people his company is donating millions to stand against."
"It goes on to say "GLAAD President Herndon Graddick said the protest stems not from Cathy’s comments, but from the millions of dollars his company has poured into “anti-gay hate groups.”"
SO, what would you do if you were Don Cathy? Would you accept the invitation? Must he? If so, why? Maybe he ought to invite them to his house for dinner and show them what a great example a father is in a child's life?
Z
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Oh yeah.
I had the hate label thrown at me (online) by people I know who know me better.
Then it's: "Oh, but the organizations Cathy supports"
To which I replied: "Do you still support that hate organization, The Democratic Party, that fostered the KKK and supported segregation and slavery?"
A lot of these people are actually bigots that see us in stereotypes from TV and theater, and they HATE that stereotype (probably rightly so).
But they are the haters.
Thank you for this... kind of proves a point doesn't it!
Those pathetic obnoxious liberals are finally finding out that we on the right are no longer going to stand for their anti American tactics.
We respect the right of other American's to believe how they please to, And to say what they want to..
G-d save us if Barack Obama wins a second term, if he does this nonsense will only spread to every American way of life that we enjoyed in the past. Yes "past"! These anti-American Alinsky tactics have to stop.
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Once again, "Support traditional marriage" is code. Focus on the Family is part of the mechanism to foster the fringe right religious fixation on homosexuality and their determination to get gays back in the closet.
Interesting that there were gays and lesbians who went to Chick-fil-a yesterday (Conservative gays and lesbians), held hands politely, sat and ate their sandwiches, joined in the festivities with the other customers. They said no one said anything negative to them or about them. They were all there for freedom of speech, not because they hate gays
Debbie
Right Truth
http://www.righttruth.typepad.com
I think that the owner should mail the couple some discount coupons. It would be ALL the lifestyle affirmation that THEY are entitled to, from a private individual.
I am so sick of hearing this crap from gays bitching about their rights - all while trying to deny rights to those who hold different values and religious beliefs. Why don't they just shut the hell up, already??? Go about your business!
“Once again, "Support traditional marriage" is code. Focus on the Family is part of the mechanism to foster the fringe right religious fixation on homosexuality and their determination to get gays back in the closet.” —Ducky
I never thought of forcing gays back into the closet, although I admit it is an interesting concept. Is it even possible? How would that work, Ducky? Is there even such a thing as a queer closet? Perhaps you reference a mere expression, suggesting that individuals who behave in such a disgusting depraved manner ought not reveal their decadence to the general public.
Speaking of code, Ducky’s use of the word “fringe right” means anyone who is not a flamer, like him. Actually, conservatives don’t care what people do in the privacy of their homes. And we think it is revealing that these people actually relish shoving their debauchery into our faces 24/7. They even encourage brainwashing schoolchildren, telling them that queer behavior is normal. There was a time when responsible adults would label this child abuse. There was a time when parents would stand up for their children. But I think we all understand why Ducky opposes traditional marriage. We all know why he doesn’t support the American family.
ED....such a good point. VA is littered with "Robert Byrd stadium....hospital...bridge" etc...a KKK recruiter. So honored.
They not only 'see us as bigots', it's the secular left which put us in that position via TV and theater....fun to mock, good for votes to say "we hate".
Mr Cathy employees open gays...they like working there. But he HATES GAYS :-)?
That's like the left saying that if you don't love Obama, you're a racist. Okay, yes...you WOULD have voted for Alan West for anything, but......
WHAT??
Dude...it sure does.
Watchman.....I think that's a good surmisal. The left gets very touchy when we on the right don't "roll over and play dead" in their silly insults and mischaracterizations. And, truly, what do they care, as long as many Americans hear the slams and don't ask "is that true?"
Except I think most Americans are still optimistic and good, and they're seeing the lies and wondering why anybody do that to someone with strong convictions?
Ducky...you don't read, do you.
Hi, Debbie...is that right? I hadn't heard that..makes me kind of want to weep for their goodness. They were just acting like GOOD AMERICANS standing up for freedom of speech.
I doubt if they'll be the same ones kissing their same-sex partners (and any same-sex person who probably comes by) in the KISS INS today at Chick-fil-As.
Thersites...good idea!!
FW...this is a lot about having Americans who aren't curious watch what's happening and thinking Christians are haters. It's about having college students who've been properly indoctrinated by now thinking they can't vote for anybody who'd DENY THE RIGHT of a gay person. (even if it doesn't)...
the truth doesn't matter to the left. Votes do.
SAM. well said...
Personally, I wouldn't use words like decadence, etc., but when it comes to the way we're raising too-small children with inappropriate information for ages in this regard, maybe I would.
I don't like confusion for children...it seems like they can't anymore even consider they deserve a married, committed mom and dad in their life.
That traditional, positive influence gave such a sense of security, I don't know what children do these days, frankly. Except act out. Then we wonder why?
So much of the left's agenda is based upon willful distortion of the vocabulary and sensational propaganda that appeals to raw emotion.
If I were Mr Cathy, I'd go. I've known plenty of gay people, and none of them fit the flamer or angry man-hater stereotypes.
It's interesting to note that up until about two months or so ago, President Obama shared the same view as Mr. Cathy. At least publicly.
I also wonder why, the CAAP(Coalition of African American Pastors) isn't getting the same heat the Mr Cathy is? Or at least the same heat that Focus on the Family seems to garner.
It's interesting to watch as outrage always seems to be so selective.
In Mr. Cathy’s shoes, I would not accept the invitation. What would be the point in doing so? I assume these women are dedicated to their point of view, and I conclude Mr. Cathy —if he is a man of principle— will stick to his. Neither will convince the other to change their minds.
The lesbian couple is demonstrating … what —that they are raising their children in a perfectly normal environment? How should we know this is true until after the children mature? But you’re right, Z. The accusation that Mr. Cathy donates his money to hate groups (sounds just like Napolitano), illustrates that this is clearly an agenda driven affront to what Mr. Cathy believes, and how he has lived his life.
"and their determination to get gays back in the closet.”
And this coming from someone who calls the Tea Party, teabaggers... Need there be more of the hypocrisy?
Do all persond born with abnormalities deserve special rights? If science found a cure for homosexuality would the take it?
Try to look at it this way:
Suppose you were a Jew who wanted to get into a "restricted" Country Club, and went to all the trouble to undergo rhinoplasty, become well read in English literature, take elocution lessons to learn how to stop dentalizing your "t's," stop pronouncing the "g" at the of "ing" syllables, and other speech patterns that are dead giveaways in the USA. Then you legally change your name from Schmedkowitz to Sinclair, convert to christianity, join the Episcopal church and get on the board of deacons.
Suppose you did ALL that just to try to make yourself acceptable to the WASP community and were then rewarded -- once you had achieved the acceptance you'd always craved -- by having to listen to anti-Jewish jokes in the locker room, on the golf course, at board meetings and at casual social gatherings everywhere you went among your new found "friends."
How would you feel?
I imagine that is EXACTLY how homosexuals who are able to "pass" feel as they are confronted every day in a thousand different ways -- not by "HATE" -- but by the deep, unyielding prejudice tightly woven into the warp and woof of "normal" society.
Anti-Semitism is now Politically Incorrect -- i.e. taboo -- "homophobia" is not. It's still Open Season on Gays. The Bible says their way of loving is an abomination, ergo it must be AOK to regard them as not quite acceptable at best.
Please don't REACT. Just THINK about it for a while. Think how that Jew with the nose job must feel. That really says it all.
~ FreeThinke
Mr Cathy can do whatever he wishes. At my blog I suggested that he give a small order of chicken nuggets to anyone who walks up to a Chick_fil-A counter and says, "I'm gay."
Of course, there should be a prize in each box, like a free condom. You gotta promote that safe sex stuff, you know.
By the way, Ducky. "Support traditional marriage" is not code, unless you think of the English language as code. "Gun control" is code. "Women's reproductive rights" is code. The traditional marriage thing is not. It is every day plain language.
"Of course, there should be a prize in each box....like a free condom."
Nope...how about a Koran highlighted for their opinion on it? They'd never accept a Bible.
FT seems intelligent, his supposition lucid, but he appears an inability (or unwillingness) to take his own advice. No one here is rampaging against people who pursue an abnormal lifestyle. We may disagree with this behavior, either from our religious beliefs, or because we find the conduct horrifying … but no one is hauling homosexuals out of their homes and branding them. Heterosexuals have not made an issue of homosexuality; homosexuals themselves have done that.
FT’s analogy doesn’t work with this argument. Any Jew who is contemplating rhinoplasty, in order that he or she may feel more comfortable with Christians, should seek psychiatric counseling for ten or twelve years.
Homosexual behavior horrifies people, but this does not make them homophobic activists. Does FT advocate thought police in order to make deviants feel good about themselves? Imp is correct to describe queer behavior as deviant and unhealthy. Where do we draw the line vis-à-vis abhorrent behavior? If it is okay to sodomize another human being, should we also “progress” to the point of accepting the arguments of the North American Man-Boy Love Association? If the answer to this is yes, then America is in worse shape than anyone ever imagined.
~Louie
FROM Z:
Oh MAN, I responded to each and every one of you and forgot to hit ANONYMOUS below since I'm at my office :-(
Well, I'll try to do more later....took a while to type all that and I don't feel like doing it again!
Thanks!
I will say WELCOME to Mark and tell him his comment is SPOT ON. good one!
I would politely decline the invitation since I would know it was not out of courtesy but a way to throw their lifestyle in his place and to harangue the poor man.
Yeah, I don't think so.
I know that there were gays at CFA on Wednesday supporting Mr. Cathy's right to freedom of speech. It's just the intolerant ones that make it bad for the rest of the people. Such as the hateful person that defaced a CFA restaurant yesterday.
I love CFA, they truly do have great customer service.
"should seek psychiatric counseling for ten or twelve years."
It hasn't worked for Woody Allen has it? The most unstable and neurotic of his tribe.
The gays that I have known support free speech. This is simply a distraction to gin up a base that may or not support his nonsense.
I am referring to Obama!
"Suppose you did ALL that just to try to make yourself acceptable to the WASP community..."
FT...first...I'm married to a Jew, ( and no...I'm not offended cause I've heard it all from those who don't know my marital situation) so I know a hell of a lot of them. And I've never met one so self loathing that they'd give a damn what a "goy" had to say about their noses!
I find most of them proud, confident, accomplished, intelligent, successful, sophisticated and poised.
FT.....that's a stereotype I find totally unnecessary...really...don't you? Isn't it just a tad bigoted FT?
Is it not the same if you said all blacks were on welfare or criminals?
Just asking.
Imp, one of the things I wrote in the longish comment from my office (which disappeared because I forgot to click "anonymous"...see above!) had to do with FT's generalizations.....
FT...that was a little below the belt.
And, by the way, I don't think anybody insults gays anymore and I do believe it's not PC to insult a gay person. And that's the way it should be.
No gay person has to adjust his or her life..just LIVE it. You're the one who often says that, no?
Saying one supports traditional marriage is not insulting gays, it's disagreeing with them.
"If the answer to this is yes, then America is in worse shape than anyone ever imagined..."
Well friend Anon..it's clear to me...that we're there. Because we didn't argue, stand up, vocalize louder than the freaks, anarchists and domestic shit heels...we lost our advantage when the country was...was 95% Christian.
We failed to protect our children...demand accountability from our schools and representatives. We hid...cowered in fear of that we should have fought.
Of the "PC" bullshit and onslaught...no war...against morality, family and established and long respected moral values. We didn't want to be labeled...as jingoists, homophobes, bigots, racists or anti Semites.
We hid out....we succumbed to the lowest common filth that is now the "American way".
We blew it. Period. I don't see any way back at all.
The "progressives" and scumbags will cheer...and watch the country fall into such a disgusting immoral morass...so long as their deviance and perversions are accepted by the common man / woman.
I wish I had enough years left to watch the left...the "progressives" try to reel in their off spring ( of different partners ) into a life of happiness, peace and prosperity while they're bung holing each other and told it's..."Normal".
Free Speech, whether it be statements made or contributions given is what is really under attack here. I would decline the invitation on that basis.
Kid, well said. I agree. NO WAY would I recommend Mr. Cathy goes..WHY? As I said in my post...is it so he can see gay couples feel they live fine lives? WHo doesn't think that, right?
Imp, I'm so glad you wrote this because I didn't zero in on Louie's comment and I always think Louie's smart and a great contributor to Geeez (thanks Louie!)
You are SO right..you both are;
WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE?
I WISH THAT FOX'S HANNITY SHOW HAD BEEN REQUIRED WATCHING TONIGHT...OF ALL AMERICANS.
EXCELLENT CONTRIBUTORS, VERY SAD INTERVIEWS OF BUSINESS PERSON AFTER BUSINESS PERSON BEMOANING THAT OBAMA REGULATIONS ARE ABSOLUTELY CHOKING THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE.
And the Left sits dumb, scornful of FOX because CNN said to be, and votes for the man who, as one of the beautiful and brainy females said "systematically killing off every productive part of American society"
But the left watches NBC news and thinks they know it all.
WOW
""Support traditional marriage" is code"
Ducky, traditional marriage goes back centuries! Now, suddenly, it's code? Really?
Our country is being torn to bits by the left, and by our so-called leaders. They want anything to be a distraction from the failures of President Obama.
I for one, am not falling for it, and neither are those of us, who can see through the smoke you and yours pump out on a daily basis.
Pris, you are SO right.
Did you happen to see Hannity tonight? It was such good information...although SO SAD.
PART ONE
Pris, of course, sized up the situation perfectly. Every bit of this nonsense is "Political Theater" designed to DISTRACT the country from President Obama's manifest failures -- and from the president's highly dubious -- frankly contemptible -- background, which Republican candidates have been too polite -- and frankly too stupidly fearful -- to make much of an issue.
I'm sorry, however that my remarks were misconstrued as some sort of attack on Jews or Jewishness, when in fact they were intensely sympathetic to the [probably now former] plight of the Jews.
I didn't realize there would be so much difficulty in understanding the language of parable and parallel.
It would, indeed, be very "nice," if it were true that no one is "insulting" or "demeaning" any of the various minorities anymore, but that's clearly not the case.
~ FT
(CONTINUED)
PART TWO
I don't doubt for a moment the accuracy of what Imp has said about his own situation (which I've known about for more than ten years, incidentally) and that of the Jewish people he knows, but I -- having lived for nearly seventy-two years now -- and having been brought up in and around New York City close to my mother's family of first-generation Italian immigrants -- know the exact situation I outlined has occurred many times with people of ethnic backgrounds once considered "undesirable" who took great pains to disguise their true identity in order to "pass" successfully into the larger community.
In the years immediately following World War Two rhinoplasty was practically de rigeur for upper-middle-class Jewish girls eager to shed the "stigma." I have personally known several -- people with whom I grew up and still know -- who have gone through this process for the reason cited.
I never realized at the time we were all kids together how painful it was for them to have to think of themselves as "different" and possibly "unacceptable." Maybe it was a hangover from the horrors of The Third Reich, which still casts a a long dark shadow even today. At any rate, it was a VERY real phenomenon.
My own mother -- who was ethnically a full-blooded Italian -- had lovely turquoise blue eyes, Titian red (auburn) hair and beautiful clear white skin, as did her mother and two of her three sisters.
My grandmother -- whether you approve of her attitude or not -- was eager for her children to assimilate fully and become as much a part of the then-dominant White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant culture as they possibly could. Grandma was -- literally -- a Roman, and must have remembered the ancient maxim "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," and adapted it to suit the reality of her situation as an immigrant to The Land of Opportunity, as it was then popularly known.
No one could ever accuse my grandmother of being stupid.
~ FT
(CONTINUED)
PART THREE
At any rate, I did not learn of my Italian ancestry till I was nine or ten years old, when my oldest aunt told me about it on day after I innocently asked her why Grandpa talked differently from the rest of us.
My mother and two of my younger aunts were furious. "Why did you have to go and tell him?" they asked. He might say something in school, and get hurt. We've worked so hard to overcome all that and get away from it -- just as Mama wanted us to."
I thought it was interesting, even exciting, and couldn't understand why they wouldn't want people to know.
Then, they started to tell me the stories of the insults they received from teachers in school, the beatings they got from Irish and Polish kids on the sidewalks of New York, and the dirty looks they sometimes got from tradesmen who assumed they must have Mafia connections, etc. They were called WOPS, DAGOS, "SPAGHETTI BENDERS," and accused of "always stinking of garlic." Of course they in turn would shout back at their tormentors and call them "DIRTY IRISH MICKS, " STUPID PO-LOCKS" and all the rest of it -- BUT they not only SURVIVED, they PROSPERED, God bless them!
Even so, it was hardly a kind, gentle, environment and the taunts, gibes and stupid insults they received stayed with them and haunted them for the rest of their lives.
And so, I got to see early on what a strain it was to feel you must play a ROLE, act a PART, live a FABRICATED STORY about your BACKGROUND in order to feel "SAFE" from potential PERSECUTION.
How unkind it is to require people to DENY their parentage and their culture -- their very IDENTITY -- treat it as though it were something EMBARRASSING and SHAMEFUL -- in order to be considered "ACCEPTABLE" to the majority!
And I'm sorry, but if you think homosexuals are no longer insulted, demeaned, and browbeaten, please reread some of the comments on this and other similar threads.
I think ALL of us are often blind to the effect our thoughts and feelings may have on others. It isn't purely "political" to suggest that putting yourself in someone else's shoes to understand how what-may-be-perfectly-normal-and-acceptable to YOU might affect THEM, if the tables were turned.
But AGAIN, please let me emphasize that I AGREE wholeheartedly that when these issues are raised by "ACTIVISTS" to score purely POLITICAL POINTS the tactic is DEPLORABLE.
Respectfully,
FreeThinke
"And I'm sorry, but if you think homosexuals are no longer insulted, demeaned, and browbeaten, please reread some of the comments on this and other similar threads."
They're aimed at their displeasure in the way the gay agenda (not all gays) are constantly PUSHING PUSHING PUSHING. As I said in a previous comment, my older gay friends never felt the need; they were happy, fulfilled people (though I believe some of them wished they had had traditional families, or so they told me in their older years)
Who ever cared in the past? and who didn't know one's cousin was gay ...but we just lived our lives and he, his?
"I think ALL of us are often blind to the effect our thoughts and feelings may have on others. It isn't purely "political" to suggest that putting yourself in someone else's shoes to understand how what-may-be-perfectly-normal-and-acceptable to YOU might affect THEM, if the tables were turned."
If people don't give thought to putting their feet in others' shoes, they're simply not thinking and are void of compassion or curiosity.
"rhinoplasty"...let's call it a NOSE JOB, it takes a little of the PC off of it, doesn't it.
Last Wednesday, AKA Chick-Fil-A appreciation day, set a sales record for the restaurant chain. Friday, AKA same sex kiss day at Chick-Fil-A ....uh....not so much.
I want to help them make their statement in whatever small way I can. So, in the spirit of loving compassion, I cordially invited them to boycott me over at my place.
ED....such a good point. VA is littered with "Robert Byrd stadium....hospital...bridge" etc...a KKK recruiter. So honored. They not only 'see us as bigots', it's the secular left which put us in that position via TV and theater....fun to mock, good for votes to say "we hate". Mr Cathy employees open gays...they like working there. But he HATES GAYS :-)? That's like the left saying that if you don't love Obama, you're a racist. Okay, yes...you WOULD have voted for Alan West for anything, but...... WHAT?? Dude...it sure does. Watchman.....I think that's a good surmisal. The left gets very touchy when we on the right don't "roll over and play dead" in their silly insults and mischaracterizations. And, truly, what do they care, as long as many Americans hear the slams and don't ask "is that true?" Except I think most Americans are still optimistic and good, and they're seeing the lies and wondering why anybody do that to someone with strong convictions? Ducky...you don't read, do you. Hi, Debbie...is that right? I hadn't heard that..makes me kind of want to weep for their goodness. They were just acting like GOOD AMERICANS standing up for freedom of speech. I doubt if they'll be the same ones kissing their same-sex partners (and any same-sex person who probably comes by) in the KISS INS today at Chick-fil-As. Thersites...good idea!! FW...this is a lot about having Americans who aren't curious watch what's happening and thinking Christians are haters. It's about having college students who've been properly indoctrinated by now thinking they can't vote for anybody who'd DENY THE RIGHT of a gay person. (even if it doesn't)... the truth doesn't matter to the left. Votes do. SAM. well said... Personally, I wouldn't use words like decadence, etc., but when it comes to the way we're raising too-small children with inappropriate information for ages in this regard, maybe I would. I don't like confusion for children...it seems like they can't anymore even consider they deserve a married, committed mom and dad in their life. That traditional, positive influence gave such a sense of security, I don't know what children do these days, frankly. Except act out. Then we wonder why?
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