Loves Chick-fil-A. Is not chicken.

Certain folks have become all wee-weed up in recent days about an outrageous statement made by Dan Cathy, COO of Chick-fil-A.

Mr. Cathy, on behalf of the phenomenally successful company founded in 1946 by his father, S. Truett Cathy, has taken a vocal public stand in favor of traditional marriage. In doing so he took a stand in opposition to same-sex marriage.

Clap him in irons! I don’t believe you’ll hurt Chick-fil-A’s bottom line.

If you’re lucky enough to live where there are Chick-fil-A restaurants, when is the last time you walked into one and didn’t have to wait in line? They’re always jammed.

Generally speaking if you choose to eat in, you’re practically bumping elbows with other patrons the whole time.

I once left a deposition in Greenville, South Carolina, with about an hour for lunch. I headed for the nearest Chick-fil-A and found that it had not one, but two drive-thru lanes. The parking lot was full and the restaurant was full.

Both drive-thru lines were so long, by the time I got my sandwich, my only option was to park in a neighboring lot to scarf it down before I had to get back to work.

As always, it was well worth it.

So you might as well clap me in irons too, because not only am I a loyal and enthusiastic patron of Chick-fil-A, but I agree with Dan Cathy on the subject of traditional marriage.

(And the homosexuals are just as free to disagree with Dan Cathy as I am to agree with him. That’s one of the things that makes this America: freedom of speech, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.)

There have been Internet rumors that the homosexual community is organizing a “National Same-Sex Kiss Day” at Chick-fil-A restaurants on August 3rd, 2012.

How adult and mature and responsible of them! Let’s make sure little kids see men making out with men and women making out with women in a family-oriented atmosphere, just so the homosexuals can make their point that nobody has the right to disagree with them.

How about this? How about TG and I go to one of our many Columbia-area Chick-fil-A locations on August 3rd, take a booth inside, and commence making out?

How about if we then try the same thing at Burger King or McDonald’s or Arby’s or Bojangle’s or Popeyes or Hardee’s or Cracker Barrel or Ruby Tuesday or Applebee’s or Chili’s or Olive Garden or Romano’s Macaroni Grill or O’Charley’s or Pizzeria Uno or Fatz Cafe or Buffalo Wild Wings or LongHorn Steakhouse or Lizard’s Thicket or Outback or Schlotzsky’s or McAlister’s Deli or Zaxby’s or Panera Bread or Five Guys or Red Robin, or even the Barnes & Noble Starbucks?

Just settle in, order some lunch, get comfortable, and start making out.

My guess is, before long, when engaging in such behavior for any length of time at any one of those places, we will be asked to either cease and desist our exhibitionism, or to leave.

And in asking us to stop or leave, would the management be guilty of heterophobia? Or of opposing traditional marriage? After all, we are married!

Of course they wouldn’t. They would be fully justified in asking us to stop or leave because our behavior is inappropriate for the time and place. We are doing something in public that should be done only in private.

But I promise you, if the homosexuals show up at Chick-fil-A restaurants all over America on August 3rd and start making out, nobody will ask them to leave. Or if they do, there will be trouble.

And it will make the national news, and Chick-fil-A will be portrayed as hatemongering homophobics opposed to civil rights in the form of “marriage equality.”

However there was no trouble -- and no mainstream reporting -- when, about six weeks ago, the White House sponsored a swanky reception for “important” gay people from Philadelphia.

(Is there any such thing, really, as an “important” homosexual? Just a thought. But let’s press forward.)

Homosexual couples of both sexes attending said reception positioned themselves in front of the official portrait of President Ronald Reagan and began making out, while simultaneously lifting their hands in a rude gesture to the portrait.

They were not asked to leave our White House for lewd behavior, or even to stop being disrespectful to a dead president.

(But pretty soon, the person who invited them there will be evicted from our White House. You may count on it.)

I remember my first visit to the White House. I also remember my first visit to Chick-fil-A. It was at the Toco Hills store in suburban Atlanta, probably around 1972.

The chicken! The soft bun! Extra pickles! Waffle fries! Lemonade! The flavor combinations, then as now, were positively intoxicating.

Back then, while enjoying our sandwich and accompaniments, we didn’t have to debate whether men should ... ahem ... marry only women and women stick to marrying men.

Now we’re forced to debate it constantly, even if we prefer not to, all the while being accused by the homosexuals of wanting to control what they do in the bedroom.

Don’t tell you what to do in your bedroom? Then don’t broadcast what you do in your bedroom. Believe me when I say, I could not be less interested in what you do in your bedroom.

In an attempt to think of something that bores me more than knowing what anyone -- least of all a homosexual -- does in their bedroom, I came up empty.

Wait! Perhaps feeding soggy Cheerios to a Speedo-clad Joe Biden would interest me less.

Still, I do not care. So do us both a favor and don’t involve me. That way, I won’t have to waste a brain cell thinking about it. Win win.

Judge you? Fear you? Hate you? Not that I would anyway, but if you’d only keep your private activities private, and stop insisting that I’m breaking the law if I prefer not to rubber-stamp every move you make, I wouldn’t even be tempted. Win win again.

Since when does disagreeing with what somebody else does, or choosing to say that you disapprove of a certain lifestyle, constitute judgment or fear or hate? It’s simply a statement of fact.

I notice this week, nobody has had any difficulty judging or fearing or hating the guy who shot up the theater in Colorado. They don’t seem to mind being very vocal about it either. I've had to turn off the TV because I'm sick to death of hearing about it. We know already! We know.

(And yes I made that comparison, and if you don't like it may I remind you that you click out the same way you clicked in. Immorality leading to destruction takes many forms and not all of them in the name of love, and sin when it is finished always brings forth death.)

The point is, each of us are forced to make judgment calls all day long. Do we necessarily hate or fear everything we choose against, or everyone who chooses to do what we choose not to do? Of course not.

The only reason the activism-prone homosexuals whine and gripe and moan and pitch hissyfits about everybody not falling right into lockstep with the wisdom of their choices, is because what they do is immoral and unnatural, and they know it.

It’s like a toddler stomping its foot and throwing itself on the floor, kicking and screaming, in order to manipulate someone into giving them their way so that they’ll shut up.

Read: Do what I say and give me what I want, or I will make life miserable for you.

The only problem is, no matter what ground we give over to the less than three percent of Americans who identify themselves as homosexuals, it will never be enough. They won’t be happy until they have eradicated traditional marriage by re-defining it into something it was never intended to be.

By the way, don’t believe for a second that the mind-and-thought control demanded of you and me and our neighbors by our government and the homosexuals, has anything whatsoever to do with love and marriage.

For one thing, the homosexual lifestyle is more about lust than love. For another, the rights they wish to secure are more financial than familial, more radical than romantic.

As to marriage, it is not “marriage equality” they want so much as to destroy the concept of traditional marriage. That’s so nobody will ever dare to make a comparison again and find the homosexual lifestyle to be abnormal or perverted.

Which it is.

Nobody is born a homosexual any more than they are born an alcoholic. Pursuit of the homosexual lifestyle is a willing choice made by an individual.

But we are created in the image of God, and to the God in Whose image we are created, according to His Word, homosexuality is an abomination. So to maintain that He created someone -- anyone -- a homosexual, is preposterous.

It’s also presumptuous and blasphemous and just plain stupid. Whoever says it, lies.

But whenever you want to control and demonize and legalize thoughts and ideas, simply turn a moral issue into a political issue. Make it against the law to “discriminate” by daring to correctly identify homosexuality as a choice rather than an “orientation.”

I will not de-claw or de-fang any of the above. I will not rethink it, rephrase it, or rescind it. I will not be muzzled and I will not be forced to endorse a lifestyle I believe to be wrong. Ever. Not by any government, not by any group of people, not by any law, not by the decree of any dictator, not by any form of evil terroristic mind-controlling coercion.

I have a first cousin who lives a homosexual lifestyle. She is a beautiful girl and I love her dearly. Over the years I’ve attended a few family social functions where she and her partner were present. I was not afraid of them and I felt no hatred for them.

On the contrary, I enjoy talking to them and find them to be charming young women.

However, I do not approve of my cousin's choices and if she asked for my opinion on the matter, I would tell her as much. The truth is, she already knows my opinion so she does not have to ask, and she won't.

My aunt, my cousin’s mother, loves her daughter and has been as supportive of her as she can be under the circumstances. But she does not approve of her daughter’s lifestyle either, and likewise my cousin knows it.

“Your choices did not affect my values,” my aunt reminded her baby girl during one discussion of the spiritual and societal opposition faced by homosexuals.

My aunt later told me that she wished she’d thought to add: “Any more than my values affected your choices." And I could tell it made her sad to say that.

I think that solves it.

Now let's go have a Chick-fil-A with extra pickles. Waffle fries on the side, large lemonade. I'll take my camera along, just in case anybody's kissing.

Oh! I almost forgot. This video? Yeah. What I'm talking about.

By the way, the gorgeous and luscious-voiced Josh Turner appears with his real, actual, gorgeous wife. Their union has been blessed with three cute little boy children.

There is no way more beautiful than God's way and no ideal design apart from God's design. Ignore it at your peril.

Comments

[Mari]

Amen! You've covered the subject pretty well and I don't have anything to add, except that I wish there were Chick-fil-A around here. Now, I would like to support them more than ever. :)
Heather just told me that she saw that the mayor of Boston is going to ban them from coming to "his" city. Now that's free enterprise and freedom of speech, don't you think?

[Donna (Texas)]

Great Post Jenny!!!! I am SO With you!
We'll meet you at the CFA on Aug 3rd....Can I also wear my fishnet hose??Hahaaa
Hughugs

[glenda]

Right on my friend, right on. And hooray for Mr. Cathy. I've always respected the fact that Chick-fil-A is a business that still closes on Sunday. And I've given them PLENTY of my business for many years.

And, ewwww, to that horrendous, disgusting picture of the parade crowd.

So, in closing, I'll meet you at Chick-fil-A.....order me a Chicken sandwich, Waffle fries, lemonade, and don't forget the extra pickles and lemonade. I won't be kissin' anyone. ;-) .......G.

[Debbie]

Great post. I heard about this and saw an interview on Fox News. I agree completely. Hubby and I were talking about it, neither one of us have ever eaten at Chick-Fil-A, I've heard the food was fantastic. We have two reasons to support them now. Can't wait to visit and give them our business.

[irene]

I hadn't heard about this Chick Fil A bit, but aren't we as free people entitled to our opinion. I am so tired of hearing about how awful we are for not embracing the alternative lifestyle. I believe in marriage, a man and a woman, and a family resulting from that loving union. Thank you for saying it so eloquently. We don't have a chick fil a, in Canada. Enjoy your kiss.

[Donna M.]

Isn't it amazing how the radical lefties demonize anyone who DARES to disagree with them and hold traditional values? They make tolerance a one-way street. We are proud of the Cathy family speaking their mind and sticking to their convictions. We will glad continue to do business with Chick-fil-A!

[Sue the Hobbit]

Last night, I learned that I have been pronouncing Chick-Fil-A wrong in my head. We don't have any around here, or I would be there, with about 50 of my best friends. I keep trying to think of a brilliant way to oppose the stupid kiss-in, but nothing is coming to mind. If everyone stayed away that day, but then mobbed the restaurants the day after, that would make up for lost revenue, wouldn't it? And not give satisfaction to the perverts.
On a happier note, Josh T is one of my favourite country singers, because he is a good man and because of that gorgeous, deep voice. I love that his wife is in the video. Now I shall have to download this song, which I hadn't heard before. Darn you!
Now, go cause a ruckus and then tell us about it!

[Robyn]

Ah, Mrs. Weber! I miss you! I'm so glad I made it back to your blog. I agree and am passing the post on to my friends and boyfriend's family.
Right now I am in Beijing, China studying Mandarin Chinese. I have several pictures and stories to share with you at some point in the near future. On August 10th I'll be flying back to the states and then back up to Vermont August 22nd for my senior year of college. In May I commission with the US Air Force! I cannot believe how quickly the time has passed but I want you to know that I've been thinking of ya'll and miss you very much.

With Love,
Robyn

[Skunkfeathers]

Until this 'controversy' was fuelled by liberal hypocrisy (they attack Chick-fil-A, yet they celebrate both Communism and Islam, both of which condemns gays...go figure), I didn't go out of my way to eat at Chick-fil-A. I will now.