Where is the tolerance?

By now, you've all heard about the brouhaha over the perfectly legitimate and true remarks made by the CEO of Chick-fil-a. He has been vilified; banned from Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston (all later retracted when the mayors realized they could get themselves in trouble); and threatened with kiss-in demonstrations and boycotts. What did he say that was so awful? Merely that he believed in biblical values and the biblical definition of marriage and that God's judgment will fall on us for blatantly disobeying His word. You would think the poor man had said, "Let's round up all the queers and burn them at the stake!"

I would like to know where the tolerance is. Can this man not have an opinion and a belief system different from the liberals? Does he forfeit his right to free speech because he is politically incorrect? 

Then we have the CEO of Amazon.com. Jeff Besoz is donating $2.5 million to keep same-sex unions legal in Washington. He joins his counterparts at Microsoft, Starbucks, and Nike in doing so. Why is there no outrage over that? Could it be that Christians are more tolerant than gays? Marc Solomon is a gay rights advocate in New York. He says, "When you have some of the mainstays of corporate leadership stand up, that's important. It sends a powerful message about where our society is right now." So it's OK if the gay people do it, but not OK if the Christians do it?  


The ever-wise Michelle Pitcher, a senior at Coppell High School, weighed in. She said she saw the headline about Chick-fil-a on a Yahoo page. The headline quoted Mr. Cathey (the Chick-fil-a CEO) when he said that gay marriage invited God's wrath. That's very true, by the way. Anyway, the enlightened Michelle said she knew "this was going to be bad. I clicked it anyway. Maybe there had been some slip of the tongue; a rogue executive had accidentally spouted his personal views in a public forum."


God's Word is bad? It was so awful it must have been a slip of the tongue? He accidentally said it? Michelle says she will be eating a lot less chicken from now on. I commend you, Michelle, for your tolerance of people whose views differ from yours. Would that we were all as enlightened and tolerant as you. Incidentally, it's OK that you won't be eating as much of that delicious Chick-fil-a chicken, because I plan to "eat mor chikkin."

"CEO backs gay marriage effort." The Dallas Morning News; July 28, 2012; p. 8A.