Chick-fil-A

So, I've decided that I'm pledging to myself to not get confront any more comments on Facebook about the whole Chick-fil-A ordeal. The whole thing makes my blood boil. In order to finally put this to a conclusion, I'm going to link a few articles with which I particularly agree. 

But first, here's a post I made on FB that I find completely at the heart of what's going on:

This is my response to the claim that we should support Chick-fil-A, because doing so would be supporting free speech. I'm only reposting it on my wall, because 1) I'm astounded at my own brilliance and 2) the slight chance that one of my friends might find it somewhat insightful.

"This has nothing to do with an individual's right to free speech. No one is at another's throat, demanding that he ...

be censored or required to have his statements recanted. If you think it does, where were you a few months ago when JCPenney released a catalogue depicting same-sex couples and children and thereby promoting a corporate statement for equality? 'One Million Moms' and other outrageous conservative organizations were up in arms and their rage has as much to do with free speech as the current rage against Chick-fil-A does.

As for your appeal to one's religious sense, I will not contest that the passages in your bible often denounce homosexuality, but they also denounce equally petty things as eating shellfish, playing football, etc.; none of which are illegal. The book also supports slavery, violence towards women and so on, but no one "takes a stand" for those things. And even if all the things I just listed had popular support, they would still have no place in law. The government should not cater to religion. 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...'" 

Anyway, I'm done. Arguing on the interwebs is stressful. 

Noah Michelson of The Huffington Post  mirrors this sentiment well.