Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has officially declared August 1 "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" to show his support for the company CEO's recent anti-gay marriage remarks.
Huckabee, in an effort to affirm his eternal relevance in the political realm, is reportedly upset by the negative feedback the company has received for sticking to its conservative guns and blasting gays for having the audacity to expect equal treatment in this great Christian nation.
The former Arkansas governor, now host of Cumulus Media Networks' syndicated radio program, The Mike Huckabee Show, encourages Christian conservatives to show their commitment to ensuring equal rights are afforded only to people who agree with theirs and the company's values.
"I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick fil-A company because the CEO, Dan Cathy, made comments recently in which he affirmed his view that the Biblical view of marriage should be upheld," said Huckabee in a statement posted to his website.
The controversy has become a favored soap box in recent days: The list of famous faces jumping into the Chick-fil-A fracas include Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, General Mills CEO Ken Powell, and Elliott Management founder Paul Singer, who have all plunked down their dollars in support of gay marriage.
Huckabee asks that his supporters do nothing more than put their money where their proverbial mouths are and show their support for Chick-fil-A by voting with their lunch dollars.
Said Huckabee, "Let's affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the Godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick fil-A on Wednesday, August 1."
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I would be the first to rise in the defense of anyone who wants to have his/her opinion on a subject heard and is being prevented from doing so. I would not hesitate to come to the aide of those who's Constitutional rights were being silenced. I would stand shoulder to shoulder with any American, regardless of whether or not I agreed with that person's point of view, if it in any way, that person's voice was being suppressed from public hearing or rightful presentation.
However, for Mr. Daniel Cathy, the principle owner of the Chick Fil A corporation, to use a portion of the business's net proceeds in an attempt to influence the changing of laws, which by doing so, would lead to the discrimination of other American citizens, is a wrongful act. An act by a person who by placing his religious doctrine and beliefs above the Constitutional rights guaranteed to others. In doing so, he and his supporters, can not now attempt to use the protection of the Constitution's guaranteed right to Freedom of Speech, to absolve him for the discrimination his actions will ultimately levy upon others.
Our country can not and should not allow any person, group of people nor business, religiously based or otherwise, to presume the right to dictate to others how they shoud act, what they should think or how they should conduct their lives. It has been Mr. Cathy's intentions through his actions to force his and his Christian Church's doctrine of what morality should be, on all others.
Religious inquisitions throughout history have always failed to force the Christian designation of morality on others of different faiths and beliefs. The reason being, the Christian Church has always assumed that the church had the right to decide what is and what is not appropriate societal morality. When in actuality, morality and it's application to society's behavioral actions, is and always has been for society to decide. Morality is not now nor has it ever been, the right nor assignment of the Christian Church to determine for society.
IMO, neither Mr. Cathy nor those who support him are acting in the true capacity of a Christian nor are they promoting the Christian beliefs are such is written within the Christian Bible.
If Homosexuals have the right to speak out so do those that do not agree with them. If those in favor of same sex marriage can spend money in support of trying to get gay marriage into every state, then the same should go for those who do not believe in same sex marriage. Also Mr Cathy's views are not those of 2 or 3 people but a majority of the American people. Christians do not dictate morality and it has been proven time and time again that you can not legislate morality no matter how much the majority of the US want to. However it is the Christian's right to believe that God dictates what is right and wrong and it is there right to give there opinion as loud and with as much money as they want to. Just like the opposite is true and those who want same sex marriage have the right to speak out as loud and with as much money as they want to. this is what America is all about. Mr. Cathy should not be discriminated against because of his beliefs as Homosexuals should not be discriminated against because of their sexual preferences.
I am a Christian and though I do not believe in Homosexual marriage I support their right to speak out for there cause just as I have the right to speak out my beliefs.