Conservatives are protesting like crazy and citing how liberals are trying to suppress free speech by boycotting Chick-fil-A. I don't buy it. No one is trying to silence Dan Cathy from expressing his opinion. He is free to say whatever he wants. People are also free to express their support or opposition to his view, and they are. The First Amendment is alive and well. I don't see what the big deal is.
Cathy has expressed a view that many people consider to be arcane, if not bigoted. And like-minded people are showing their support for his bigotry, and other people are also expressing their disapproval of his bigotry. Chick-fil-A (what a stupid name- reminds me of Freedom Fries) held a nationwide Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day yesterday. People who support his bigoted position showed up in large herds, standing in long (straight) lines, just so they could be seen as "straight and proud of it".
The whole thing kind of reminds me of the fried chicken owner in Georgia, Lester Maddox, who publicly voiced his bigotry and his opposition to integration back in the sixties. He went on to be elected the Governor of Georgia. Who knows, there are a lot of bigoted people out there. Perhaps Dan Cathy has political ambitions too.
ps- How does a guy with name like Cathy end up hating gays anyway???
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