fair AND balanced II

Or the gift that keeps on giving!

 Let me start off by saying, like my personal deity, Micheal, that I am sorry. It appears that this whole " meltdown of the economy" thing , is my fault. Well, not just me, but me and my ALL POWERFUL HOMO BRETHREN! ( tremble before our fashion forward presence! )

Since it is Palin-Free-February, we can turn our thoughts to other role model ladies from the 2011 Great American Conservative Women Calendar. ( hey, Scalia and Thomas have needs as well.....) Spotlight today on that bastion of freedom, ( God, but I hate putting her name on my blog, will only do it once, and for the rest of the post just use this: ☠, Michelle Malkin. ( There is not way to do this without posting her entire column, if this is your first dip into the deep pool of bitter that is ☠, then I apologize, again.

A Christian business in the Left’s crosshairs ( really, again with the cross hairs ? really ?? )
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
Here’s a modest proposal for liberals who say they support job creation: Stop smearing successful, law-abiding private companies whose values don’t comport with yours. I’m looking at you, New York Times.
Chick-Fil-A is an American success story. Founded by Georgian entrepreneur Truett Cathy in 1946, the family-owned chicken-sandwich chain is one of the country’s largest fast-food businesses. It employs some 50,000 workers across the country at 1,500 outlets in nearly 40 states and the District of Columbia. The company generates more than $2 billion in revenues and serves millions of happy customers with trademark Southern hospitality.
So, what’s the problem? Well, Chick-Fil-A is run by devout Christians who believe in strong marriages, devoted families, and the highest standards of character for their workers. The restaurant chain’s official corporate mission is to “glorify God” and “enrich the lives of everyone we touch.” The company’s community service initiatives, funded through its WinShape Foundation, support foster care, scholarship, summer camp, and marriage enrichment programs. On Sunday, all Chick-Fil-A stores close so workers can spend the day at worship and rest.
For the Left, these Biblically-based corporate principles constitute high social justice crimes and misdemeanors. Democrats are always ready to invoke religion to support their big government, taxpayer-funded initiatives (Obamacare, illegal alien amnesty, increased education spending, and FCC regulatory expansion, for starters).
But when an independent company – thriving on its own merits in the market place — wears its soul on its sleeve, suddenly it’s a theocratic crisis.
Over the past month, several progressive activist blogs have waged an ugly war against Chick-Fil-A. The company’s alleged atrocity: One of its independent outlets in Pennsylvania donated some sandwiches and brownies to a marriage seminar run by the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which happens to oppose same-sex marriage.
In the name of tolerance, the anti-Chick-Fil-A hawks sneered at the company’s main product as “Jesus Chicken,” derided its no-Sunday work policy, and attacked its operators as “anti-gay.” Michael Jones, who describes himself as having “worked in the field of human rights communications for a decade, most recently for Harvard Law School,” launched an online petition drive at www.change.org “demanding” that the company disavow “extreme anti-gay groups.” Facebook users dutifully organized witch hunt drives against the company on college campuses.
Over the weekend, New York Times reporter Kim Severson gave the Chick-Fil-A bashers a coveted Sunday A-section megaphone – repeatedly parroting the “Chick-Fil-A is anti-gay” slur and raising fears of “evangelical Christianity’s muscle flexing” with only the thinnest veneer of journalistic objectivity. Severson, you see, is an openly gay advocate of same-sex marriage equality herself and the former vice-president of the identity politics-mongering National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association. In a bitter op-ed on gay marriage laws not changing quickly enough, she asserted: “I don’t want the crumbs. I want the whole cake.” Severson has voiced complaints about her social and economic status as an unwed lesbian with a partner and child in several media publications.
None of this was disclosed in Severson’s advocacy journalism hit job on Chick-Fil-A. But therein lies the unofficial motto of the Gray Lady: All the ideological conflicts of interest unfit to print.
Progressive groups are gloating over Chick-Fil-A’s public relations troubles exacerbated by the nation’s politicized paper of record. Not because they care about winning hearts and minds over gay rights or marriage policy, but because their core objective is to marginalize political opponents and chill Christian philanthropy and activism. The fearsome “muscle-flexing” isn’t being done by innocent job-creators selling chicken sandwiches and waffle fries. It’s being done by the hysterical bullies trying to drive them off college grounds and out of their neighborhoods in the name of “human rights.”
Remember: These were the same tactics the left-wing mob used in California to intimidate supporters of the Proposition 8 traditional marriage initiative. Individual donors were put on an “Anti-Gay Black List.” Businesses who contributed money to the Prop. 8 campaign were besieged by fist-wielding protesters. The artistic director of the California Musical Theatre was forced to resign over his $1,000 donation.
Message: Associate with the wrong political cause and you will pay. So much for national “civility.”
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Sigh. As I hope I got across in my own little Chick-fil-a post, if you do not want to eat at this restaurant because of the corporate Christian world view , then don't. This is America.. I don't eat there because I am not a big fan of their food. You think this would be the end of the story, right? Not so much in all-victim-all-the-time -FOXNEWS-land. The all powerful gays are out to destroy the country! Let's just re-read the last couple of paragraphs together." Blah, blah, blah - The fearsome " muscle-flexing "isn't being done by innocent job creators..... it's being done by hysterical bullies trying to drive the jobs out "  The omnipresent pink mafia is coming to knock that lemonade out of your hands, and take away your job!

Number one, we don't have the power to stand up to ANYONE.. Just look at what is happening in IOWA. Same sex marriage has been going on their for a few years, with NO adverse results other than money coming into the state. Yet the state GOP is obsessed with getting the law changed and voiding all the marriages that have taken place. GLBT rights are in peril all over the country.

Number two, " THEY" do it much more than " WE " do. This is the current list of companies that are under a CHRISTIAN BOYCOTT  , mostly because they will not discriminate against their gay employees, or have given money to glbt or progressive causes.:

Ford 

McDonalds

AT&T

Business that pulled funding from the Boy Scouts

Carrier Heating, Air-Conditioning, Refrigeration Corporation

Columbus Dispatch

CVS Pharmacy

Disney

K-Mart

Levi-Straus

Public Broadcasting System (PBS)

Really. Let's just take ☠ at face value, and say that CFA is a 2 billion dollar company... What do you think all of these companies add up too, you twit? And don't you think there are one or two more Christians in the US than there are gays ?? ( and I know this will be news to you ☠, but there is even some overlapping within these two groups!!!! ). 

I get it, I know that the right wing noise machine can not exist with out an other to hate and fearmonger about, I understand, but come on, there are not really enough of us to merit this much fear. End of post, you never ever have to think about ☠ again, as long as you live.....