Do Candidates You Support have Chick-fil-A Values?

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 17, 2012
By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim. On August 1st Truett Cathy’s fast-food restaurants were jam-packed everywhere, all over the country. They were so crowded some went from one Chick-fil-A to another before they could get in. It was glorious! Chick-fil-A businesses were booming after Mr. Cathy told the Baptist Press that the company was “guilty as charged” for backing “the biblical definition of a family.”

After that comment, a Chicago alderman vowed he would block a Chick-fil-A franchise proposed for his district and the mayor backed him up with this comment, “Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.” Then the mayor of Boston joined the persecution with this letter to Mr. Cathy, “There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it.” That’s amazing – a mayor that can’t detect discrimination when it comes out of his own mouth!

That intolerance for Christian values hit a nerve all over the country and former Governor Huckaby’s call for a Chick-fil-A appreciation day mushroomed into an avalanche of business for ALL Chick-fil-A locations. We had Chick-fil-A twice that day at two different jam-packed locations, but by supper-time, that location had sold out of chicken strips and nuggets!

Of course, it made the news and one comment by a Chick-fil-A customer said it all. “We’ve been so tolerant we haven’t taken a stand. Now it’s time to take a stand!” Amen, brother, and he’s not alone! On July 31st, the day before the stampede to Chick-fil-A, CNSNews.com reported this, “The President of the Coalition of African-American Pastors says supporters of traditional marriage are facing the same discrimination that blacks faced during the civil rights movement.”

Rev. William Owens said that in his speech at the National Press Club, then made this promise: “Well, we won’t take it. We will stand up and they will learn, they will learn that they can’t do that to any people, by destroying religion, by destroying the family, we will stand up.”

That African-American pastors conference was held to announce their “Mandate for Marriage” campaign to urge black voters to support the presidential candidate who supports biblical marriage. The persecution of Chick-fil-A was a personal affront to all who believe marriage is the union of a man and a woman, along with others who might not believe in Biblical values, but DO tolerate opposing beliefs … and enjoy Mr. Cathy’s chicken sandwiches. For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.