A national restaurant chain has come under fire because they have exercised their democratic right to think and believe in line with their faith and values. The people who are calling them names and planning indignities on their establishments feel they are exercising their freedoms in trying to destroy someone else's business. To me, living in a democracy means that I can believe in what my core values lead me to believe. I give the same freedom to people who disagree with me. Liberals don't work that way, it seems.
Because the founders and owners of Chick-Fil-A believe in traditional marriage, liberals figure they are fair game and would love to see the business taken down and destroyed and count it as a victory for humanity. So, why does freedom end with their thoughts on the subject? Someone put it well when they said that if liberals decide they want to be vegetarians, then they expect everyone to be vegetarian because they have deemed it the best way to live . . . according to their thinking. Well, now the liberal factions have decided that unless all companies are in line with their thinking on marriage, then they have no right to exist.
And, it is not only their meanness in trying to ruin the jobs and business of another because they dare to disagree . . . in a democracy that guarantees them this option, they call names and get nasty about it. I don't know about you but when you have to resort to foul language, you've lost points. Today, Roseanne Barr actually said that people who eat at Chick-Fil-A deserve to get cancer. Tolerance is supposed to be a constant in disagreements. She sure exhibited a great deal of tolerance in her statement . . . or, scary to think, perhaps this is the limit of her definition of tolerant.
Oh, and one guess where we had lunch today? :-)
