I’m concerned. Have you heard about the attacks on Chick-fil-A?
Right now, the company is under attack because the fast-food restaurant’s president told a Christian news organization that it supported “the biblical definition of the family unit.” For years, Chick-fil-A has fought for traditional values in the public sphere and is, remarkably, one of the few companies I know that voluntarily closes on Sundays.
But, the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, said today the company’s views are “anti-gay” and “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values.” I certainly hope not!
But Emanuel didn’t stop there. He demanded that the restaurant chain’s leader change his opinion or keep his restaurants out of Chicago.
These are dangerous tactics designed to delegitimize our participation, as people of faith, in the public sphere. For decades, through the media and our education system, the Left has exalted extreme individualism that promotes notions of freedom detached from moral truth. For the Left, there is absolutely no room for people like you and me in the public sphere — no room in the inn.
We’re losing our freedom and we cannot afford to stay silent. We will not allow Virginia to close the doors on our faith. Without people of faith in our government, we fall prey to totalitarian interpretations of humanity and the nature of our culture. Help us play a critical and urgent role to counter the cultural currents in our state.
Our religious freedom is more than just the freedom to worship. That’s why we need your immediate support to demand guarantees of respect for our freedom of conscience in our laws. If we don’t stand up for our faith, who will?
The Family Foundation is already in the middle of this fight. During the last legislative session, we protected the religious liberty of private adoption agencies after we discovered they were going to be forced through new state regulations, against their conscience, to adopt children to homosexual couples.
It was a difficult battle but we succeeded. If we didn’t have the support from people like you, imagine what would have happened if that regulation against their conscience was allowed to pass? Now we see attacks on our religious freedom in Obamacare, where radical secularists are right now denying the right of conscientious objection to religious institutions and individuals.
Our faith is not a constraint or threat to freedom as leftists tell our fellow Americans. Instead, our faith is the basis for liberation and a humane world and we must stand up and protect what we believe. Do you agree? If so, raise your voice! Join with me and don’t let the radical secularists continue to delegitimize our participation in public debate.
As usual, religious conservatives all over the country galvanize around the cause of anti-gay ‘Biblical principles.’ But you people ignore the fact that CEO Cathy sets an even better example for people and businesses – not by anti-gay rhetoric – but by a steadfast refusal to profiteer from the toils of others on the Sabbath. This is clear evidence that you’re driven by politics, not by Christian ethics and ‘family values.’ Amazing that people don’t see through your guises but perhaps your supporters reflect the same hypocrisy.
[...] *Left’s Attack On Chick-fil-A Is One More Battle In War On Religious Freedom [...]
[...] Christians are rising up. And many are saying the vitriol against Chick-Fil-A is just another "battle in the war on religious freedom", to borrow the words of Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation, based in Richmond, Virginia. [...]
Chick-Fil-A is not under attack because of their founder’s beliefs. Chick-Fil-A is under attack because of the millions of dollars that have been donated to anti-gay organizations that are often demeaning or hateful.
As a Christian, I am disgusted that people believe that gay people being sinners makes it okay to treat them terribly.
I try to live remembering how Jesus treated sinners, and therefore I choose not to eat at Chick-Fil-A. It is not because of the stated beliefs, but because of how they have been expressed with millions of dollars toward hatred.
Coming from a Christian perspective, this seems unloving and legalistic. Conservatism is not the Gospel homie. Your rights are not really being that imposed on. Try going to another country where you have no freedom to worship period and would be killed for having this website up haha. Take a chill pill fam! I hear you, but dang. This sounds a bit too profitable for you…and really shady. Signing out.
In an article published last week, Alise Wright highlighted some of the problematic elements of Family Research Council in particular, which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and has consistently tried to link gays and lesbians to pedophiles. This kind of disinformation is what fuels the fires of ignorance and intolerance. Do you not see how CFA’s funding of a hate group could be even remotely bad, when it comes to human rights? It’s not about your opinion or mine on gay marriage/rights. It’s about your consumer dollars funding a group that blatantly lies, under the guise of religion, and then claims persecution based on the backlash. If it were any other group’s rights that were being violated so abhorently, we would all take a stand. But because this is a group of people whose way of life you may not agree with, funding THEIR (actual) persecution seems fine? This wasn’t how I was raised, as a good Christian. I was raised to love everyone and respect them, regardless of our disagreements, not wage war on them.
I understand the belief of same sex marriage. What I don’t understand is if someone is homosexual why this sin is more than your own. If they shouldn’t be allowed to provide a loving home to a child who may otherwise be left to the care of the state why should any of us be allowed to adopt. We are ALL sinners. As christians we believe and profess this truth. “No sin is greater that another”, we say. Yet we pick and choose to whom we are going to “ban”. Christianity is about loving each other even with our sins. Setting apart a “group” of sinners does nothing to show them love or further God’s kingdom.
there are agencies already providing children to homosexual couples for adoption,which I believe is horrible for a child.But the issue here was that this law would force faith based agencies to go against their conscience and belief.If a birth mother does not want her child to be adopted by a homosexual couple,why would you take that request away from her?That is her belief for her child,and her right.She can then turn to a faith based agency.This is about taking away the right to choose,and above all ,forcing someone to go against their faith.As sinners,we are to confess that sin,and do our best to obey God’s commandments.We cannot do that by allowing innocent children to be raised in a home that completely contradicts his commandments.We are responsible for innocent little children and their upbringing.Even though we are sinners,that does not mean we just give up and hand the children over to just anybody.I shudder to think of being raised in such a home,it is unfair to a child.