{"id":15625,"date":"2012-07-22T01:41:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15625"},"modified":"2012-07-22T01:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:41:46","slug":"speaking-of-chick-fil-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15625","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Chick-Fil-A"},"content":{"rendered":"

This behavior<\/a> by the mayor of Boston is appalling:<\/p>\n

Mayor Thomas M. Menino is vowing to block Chick-fil-A from bringing its Southern-fried fast-food empire to Boston \u2014 possibly to a popular tourist spot just steps from the Freedom Trail \u2014 after the family-owned firm\u2019s president suggested gay marriage is \u201cinviting God\u2019s judgment on our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChick-fil-A doesn\u2019t belong in Boston. You can\u2019t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We\u2019re an open city, we\u2019re a city that\u2019s at the forefront of inclusion,\u201d Menino told the Herald yesterday.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

If they need licenses in the city, it will be very difficult \u2014 unless they open up their policies,\u201d he warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ken at Popehat<\/a> comments:<\/p>\n

…the government doesn’t get to pick and choose what social causes are permissible, and any government actor who aspires to that power is a lowlife thug. What’s particularly alarming about Menino’s thuggery is how openly his referencing to licensing “difficulties” reveals how things really work in government: whatever rights you think that you have, practically speaking some bureaucrat can punish you for exercising them on a whim, and there’s very little you can do about it. Menino represents the ethos of government actors who think quite frankly that this is right and just and how it should be \u2014 that they, our masters, should be able to dictate what we think and do and say if we want to do business in their fiefdom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Freedom of speech requires that the government not discriminate against or punish people for the expression <\/em>of their political views ((If the business has a history of breaking laws against discrimination, I think that would be a different matter — that’s a pattern of lawbreaking behavior, not just an expression of political views.)) – even those views I most strongly disagree with. Leave that sort of thing to private citizens acting in a private capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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