Chick-Fil-A...

Disclaimer:  I have visited Chick-Fil-A restaurants since they began in my location in the 80's, and continue to visit them today.

That being said, I can't be anything other than outraged about all this vitriol and hate being sent from the gay community and their leftist allies towards Chick-Fil-A, a company that has been in existence since 1966, closes on Sundays, has the most friendly and hard-working employees out there, has very appetizing meals, contributes to the communities where they are (just ask the Aurora, CO, police who received free meals from the restaurant while they handled the theater shootings there) and just happens to have a founder who has Christian beliefs, and who expressed his favor of traditional male-female marriage vs. same-sex marriage, exercising his First Amendment rights.

I thought the message from the left (which includes most, but not all of, the so-called gay movement) was tolerance for all, but after reading some of the Twitter comments to Chick-Fil-A and former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, they are the exact opposite...some of the most vile utterances I have ever heard from the so-called "tolerant" people, and if you disagree with their points of view, you are automatically branded a "homophobe".  Well, to quote John Wayne:  "Mister, I haven't got a bigoted bone in my body"...and I do disagree with the hatred being slung toward a private-sector restaurant, does that make me a homophobe?

Cities like Boston and Chicago (who happen to have high unemployment and high crime rates to match) are now planning to ban new Chick-Fil-A locations because Chick-Fil-A's values "do not reflect 's values".  What values?  High murder rates?  High unemployment? I would think the citizens of these cities are more interested in available jobs and more businesses (meaning more tax dollars) than the left-wing agenda being carried out there.  Also, Jim Henson's company pulled their toys from Chick-Fil-A, and other Hollywood left-wingers like Eliza Dushku want the restaurants banned altogether and Roseanne Barr hopes patrons of Chick-Fil-A "get cancer"...so much for Hollywood's "tolerance"...and I have another question, just like Rush Limbaugh's battle with Sandra Fluke earlier this year (where most people calling for "boycotts" had never even listened to the show before the controversy hit) how many of the people who are wanting to boycott Chick-Fil-A actually eat at the restaurants so they know the whole story about the business? 

Bottom line is, Chick-Fil-A's business will survive despite the so-called "outrage" of the left, but serves as a reminder of the double-standard among the left regarding certain issues...they forget their leader, Obama, was against same-sex marriage before he was for it (for political expediency) and not a word was said until his flip-flop, while businesses and individuals who do not share the left's views and express their First Amendment right to freedom of speech are pummelled with hate emails, tweets, and worse.