Chick-fil-A Vandalized in Torrance, CA ("Tastes Like Hate")

[angelatc]

Those arrogant, prideful gay people! Wanting to get married like the rest of us! Those heathens, shaking their fist at God! Leviticus tells us that men should not marry men! And that our male and female slaves are to come from the nations around us; from them we may buy slaves. We may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become our property. So let's not shake our fists at god! Let's go buy slaves!

I'm not religious, and I am opposed to gay marriage. Got anything besides "bigot?"

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I'll hand it to the Democrats and the establishment. Operation Red-Herring Fil-A has been a resounding success.

 

[KingNothing]

I'm not religious, and I am opposed to gay marriage. Got anything besides "bigot?"

Are you opposed to straight marriage? I understand and empathize with the "WE NEED TO GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF MARRIAGE!" point of view. That entire concept is absurd. That's goal number one. ...it isn't, however, what many in the Religious Right want to do, though. Their goal is to keep government in marriage, and use the power of the state to prevent homosexuals from wedding one another.

I don't understand why we can't have the same set of rules for gay people as we do straight people, especially for this. It would be such a non-issue if we could just leave people alone.

 

[KingNothing]

I'll hand it to the Democrats and the establishment. Operation Red-Herring Fil-A has been a resounding success.

I don't think the Democrats wanted this. It did nothing but rile up the base-element within the base of the Republican party. If they turn out to vote the way they turned out for fried food, they're going to destroy the Democrats.

 

[DerailingDaTrain]

I'm not religious, and I am opposed to gay marriage. Got anything besides "bigot?"

Wouldn't that be accurate? (Not trying to start a fight. It's not really the offensive term it has come to be these days)

Bigot is defined as somebody with strong opinions, especially on politics, religion, or ethnicity, who refuses to accept different views

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I don't think the Democrats wanted this. It did nothing but rile up the base-element within the base of the Republican party. If they turn out to vote the way they turned out for fried food, they're going to destroy the Democrats.

It distracts from real issues, and both sides of the two-headed monster want that. Plus it riles up both sides of the aisle. Democrats were getting a little lazy. They wanted to get them excited about something.

 

[WhistlinDave]

Liberals in the movement suck. I hate liberals. Go find something on Kos about that.

I don't even know what Kos is. Never been on the website before. I simply Googled "Chick-Fil-A Family Research Council Hate" to see if I could find out why people call FRC a hate group, and this was one of the first links that came up.

But if you insist on labeling me, you should know that I think abortion is murder, people should be free to pray on the steps of a public courthouse if they choose to, affirmative action is wrong, and disliking Obama does not make me racist. But I do think gay people should be allowed to get married if they want to.

And I think atheists who think we should remove "In God We Trust" from our money are overboard zealots who have too much time on their hands and give other atheists a bad name.

Am I still a Liberal? I could use your help here because I am confused as to what collective group I should be lumped in with.

 

[RickyJ]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/08/chick-fil-a-kiss-hate-graffiti-vandalized.html

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God. These fools are messing with the creator, they won't and can't win. Go ahead call God a hater, the one who gave you life, the one who sacrificed his son for your sins, see where that will get you.

 

[dannno]

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God. These fools are messing with the creator, they won't and can't win. Go ahead call God a hater, the one who gave you life, the one who sacrificed his son for your sins, see where that will get you.

Wow, Chik-fil-a is the creator??

I think you guys are takin this a little too far..

 

[mac_hine]

You know what this reminds me of? When people didn't want a permit given to that community center with a Muslim community room in the old Brookfield coat factory several blocks from where the twin towers were attacked. That was sort of in your face, imho, given the guy behind it, but even so, that is not the proper role of the state.

It's just more proof that both sides will use the force of government to pursue their separate agendas.

Redumblicans and Libtards are consistently inconsistent in matters of principle.

This situation is yet another example as to why Libertarianism is the most logically sound political philosophy.

 

[The Free Hornet]

Hate?? Dan Cathy forbids members of the LBGT/Homosexual community from working in his company? He advocates that gays cannot freely associate??? I didn't think so.

Marriage is a contract and is a form of free association. It is what DOMA/Cathy oppose if that contract is described as marriage or domestic union (see NC). Here is a commentary on the North Carolina ban:

Now, whatever their beliefs about homosexuality may be, one thing every conservative considers vital to the health of a free country is freedom of contract and freedom of association (that may be the one sentence in this essay that 100% of the readers will agree on). And here we have not just a law, but a constitutional mandate, that decimates both.

Given various ordinances that might limit a dwelling to family (or limit the number of non-relative occupants), it is not unfair to state that limitations on gay marriage could be limitations on freedom to associate.


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Isn't it so ironic that people accuse them of hate by harrassing their employees, vandalizing their buildings, and severely insulting and degrading the integrity of Dan Cathy, not to mention judging people with similar views.

Are you sayin it is wrong to judge anybody? Or only people who hold views similar to Dan Cathy and you?

Ayn Rand said it best, “Judge, and be prepared to be judged.”

 

[bunklocoempire]

"...I just can't stand the hate..."

 

[QuickZ06]

To bad people wont go out of their way to bring our troops back home but will raise arms over chicken to show support of our constitution and the rights we are granted, but not when it comes to unconstitutional wars. Our priorities are really messed up.

 

[cajuncocoa]

I don't think it's the Christ part of Christianity that gay rights advocates hate. Jesus said lots of things about love but never said one word about homosexuality while he walked the earth as God Incarnate. (Not in any version of the Bible I've ever seen.)

What they hate is people who spend millions of dollars collectively to try to write laws infringing on their freedoms, trying to force them to observe someone else's religion they don't believe in. (i.e. "Marriage is between a man and a woman because the Bible says so.")

If this still doesn't make sense, consider how you would feel if Muslims were spending millions of dollars lobbying to write a law saying Christian marriages are invalid. If you got married in a Christian church, it is not valid, not legal, you are not married in the eyes of society or the government. Why? Well because the one, true, word of God, the Qu'Ran, says so. Only marriages under Islam are valid. It's God's word. (Yes, coincidentally, those Muslims think the same thing about their one and only true holy book that Christians think about theirs. It's the only true word of God.)

So these Muslims are trying to make sure they protect Traditional Marriage, and they're going to change the law to make sure everybody is on the same page. It's for the good of society and the children.

Now how would you feel about those Muslims? Would you think they are nice people? Would you think it was great they cared so much about your soul and society that they were working very hard to take away your freedom to define for yourself what marriage is? Would you think it was great they know better than you do what you should believe and how you should form your family?

I don't agree with hate when it's just unfounded hate and prejudice. But you do have to understand, for a lot of people they have very good reason to not want to put up with Christians. Nobody is trying to tell Christians who they can and can't marry, or how they must define a word, or what they must believe. But many Christians are trying to write laws to do this to everyone else.

I'm just trying to point out the other side of this. I believe in judging every individual based on their character and actions, and I try not to make assumptions about someone just because they Christian, gay, Liberal, or whatever. Those are labels, not people.

If government had never gotten involved in marriage, none of this would even be an issue. We wouldn't need to be writing all of these laws. Muslims could define marriage as they like, as could Christians, Jews, atheists, etc. As a Christian, it shouldn't matter to me whether a Muslim, Jew, or atheist recognizes my marriage or not.

 

[RickyJ]

Wow, Chik-fil-a is the creator??

I think you guys are takin this a little too far..

You know what I meant, please.

 

[WhistlinDave]

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by God. These fools are messing with the creator, they won't and can't win. Go ahead call God a hater, the one who gave you life, the one who sacrificed his son for your sins, see where that will get you.

In Genesis Chapter 16, the Angel of the Lord appeared to Hagar and told her to return to her master and submit.

Does that mean that if my wife is infertile I should rape my female slave to get her pregnant and God is OK with it? It worked out great for Abraham and Sarai... Kind of contradicts the whole "one man one woman" model of Biblical marriage as well, just saying.

It's not my intention to be rude or insult your religious beliefs, I'm just pointing out that some things in the Old Testament were correct for society in the time and culture when they were written thousands of years ago, but today we know these things are not really what God wants, because we have become more enlightened since those days.

Which is why nobody today is advocating rebellious children be brought to the town elders to be publicly stoned to death (Deuteronomy 21:18-21). And nobody today is saying we should protect traditional marriage by making laws to stone adulterers to death (Leviticus 20:10).

And nobody is protesting outside Red Lobster because eating shellfish is an abomination (Leviticus 11:9-12).

 

[cajuncocoa]

Are you opposed to straight marriage? I understand and empathize with the "WE NEED TO GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF MARRIAGE!" point of view. That entire concept is absurd. That's goal number one. ...it isn't, however, what many in the Religious Right want to do, though. Their goal is to keep government in marriage, and use the power of the state to prevent homosexuals from wedding one another.

I don't understand why we can't have the same set of rules for gay people as we do straight people, especially for this. It would be such a non-issue if we could just leave people alone.

Since when have our goals been the same as those of the Religious Right?

 

[angelatc]

Are you opposed to straight marriage? I understand and empathize with the "WE NEED TO GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF MARRIAGE!" point of view. That entire concept is absurd. That's goal number one. ...it isn't, however, what many in the Religious Right want to do, though. Their goal is to keep government in marriage, and use the power of the state to prevent homosexuals from wedding one another.

I don't understand why we can't have the same set of rules for gay people as we do straight people, especially for this. It would be such a non-issue if we could just leave people alone.

Because, as I've explained over and over and over, we're not going to win liberal allies if we give them government benefits. Expanding the government (and the entitlement base) is never the right answer, even if it gives you warm fuzzies.

 

[WhistlinDave]

If government had never gotten involved in marriage, none of this would even be an issue. We wouldn't need to be writing all of these laws. Muslims could define marriage as they like, as could Christians, Jews, atheists, etc. As a Christian, it shouldn't matter to me whether a Muslim, Jew, or atheist recognizes my marriage or not.

I agree. Government should not be involved in marriage at all. No legal definition of it, no tax benefits, no nothing. Let every person define it for him or herself.

 

[cajuncocoa]

You're rant notwithstanding, how is what he said "hate"?

Hate is: "queers are disgusting and should be rounded up and shot".

What he said was a differing opinion based on a religious belief.

In a free society, people are allowed to have differing opinions and should not have to suffer government retribution because of it.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Anti Federalist again.