Dan Cathy, president and CEO of Chick-fil-A, finds
himself embroiled in a war of words with Boston
mayor Thomas Menino over same sex marriages. As I understand it, Cathy calls them
unchristian and unacceptable to people of faith. Mayor Menino says Boston doesn’t want Cathy’s
franchise in his town, noting that same-sex marriages have been legal in
Massachusetts since 2004. It’s a
high-volume argument—and both men deserve a good scolding.
The mayor should know that the chicken king cannot be
muzzled or muscled out of Boston. That’s
not the way it works in America.
Cathy, however, while
protected by the First Amendment, needs his comeuppance too. I call people like him “religious perverts”
because they pervert the good impulse of religion and twist it into a militant
intolerance, in this case against gays and same-sex marriages. It hardly needs to be pointed out that not
every Christian is of the same opinion as Cathy. Apparently the same Bible admits of multiple
attitudes and interpretations—toward this and other issues of our time. Thank God.
It isn’t clear why the religious pervert chooses
intolerance over tolerance, a merciless Christianity rather than an
all-inclusive, accepting one, or why he crusades against people who are
different from himself and judges them with the severity of the Spanish
Inquisition. Cathy's Christianity
doesn't sound like the love-based religion most of us know and respect.
It's high time we called out religious perverts like Dan Cathy and hold
them accountable for the trouble they cause.
They have a right to their opinion and to open up chicken stores
wherever they want, of course, but we all have the right to eat at KFC.
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