Big Government Hammer Hits As Chick-fil-A Caves
Bobby Eberle / GOP USA
By now you might have heard the story about Chick-fil-A and its efforts to open a store in Chicago. The restaurant corporation, in order to appease the strong-arm tactics of one of the city leaders, agreed to stop funding traditional marriage advocacy groups. That action is shocking enough, but what cuts equally to the core of American fiber, is the fact that the “government” dictated how a business should be run, and the business listened.
As I covered back in July, the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain was thrust into the national spotlight, because its president, Dan Cathy, publicly commented on his beliefs of the Biblical, traditional definition of marriage. This caused the mayor of Boston to threaten the company and write, “There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it. I urge you to back out of your plans to locate in Boston.
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