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Illinois LGBT Group Files Multiple Human Rights Compaints Against Chick-fil-A

From their press release: The Civil Rights Agenda (TCRA), Illinois’ largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights advocacy organization, working with cooperating attorneys and on behalf of claimants, filed multiple complaints against Chick-fil-A with The Illinois Department of Human Rights. Among other things, the complaints allege that Chick-fil-A’s “intolerant corporate culture” violates Illinois […]

The Chick-fil-A "Marriage Cows"

We posted this on our Facebook page but wanted to make sure our blog-only readers saw this as well!

Video: Chick-fil-A Supporter Videotapes Day

One Chick-fil-A supporter’s view as she interviews people there in solidarity not just with Chick-fil-A’s right to free speech but also with Dan Cathy’s support for marriage!

17 Representatives Send Letter Supporting Chick-fil-A

Congressman Alan Nunnelee: Today, Congressman Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss) sent a letter to Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy congratulating him on the dignity with which his company has conducted itself in the face of a vicious smear campaign.  The letter is cosigned by 16 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives. “The criticism they have received […]

Ross Douthat on Defining Religious Liberty Down

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat asks for those who oppose religious liberty to drop the facade that they support it: “…It may seem strange that anyone could look around the pornography-saturated, fertility-challenged, family-breakdown-plagued West and see a society menaced by a repressive puritanism. But it’s clear that this perspective is widely and sincerely held.It […]

Rush Limbaugh on Reveling in the Chick-fil-A Revolution

He says: “… So P. J. Gladnick is who wrote this for NewsBusters, and basically Sally Quinn is recommending that gays and lesbians infiltrate Chick-fil-A restaurants to the point where they become gay hangouts, to such an extent that even gay weddings would be performed there.  This is what Sally Quinn is urging in her […]

NewsBusters: Kirk Cameron Protest Dwarfed by 12,000 Supporters

Taylor Hughes of NewsBusters: If the left’s response to Chick-fil-A proves anything, it’s that the left has a clear method of attacking anyone who supports a traditional definition of marriage. Label that person a bigot and then protest everything they do. This of course is the same plan of action applied to actor Kirk Cameron. […]

LSN: Chick-Fil-A Confirms Record-Smashing Sales on Appreciation Day

Jean McCarthy of LifeSiteNews: As Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day wrapped up Wednesday evening, it took a long time for the dust and feathers to settle. Almost 700,000 people signed up for Mike Huckabee’s event on Facebook, and from all reports they made good on their promise to stand up for free speech and religious freedom by […]

Prof. Matthew Franck on the Weakness of the Case for SSM

Prof. Matthew Franck writes in the Public Discourse on the false framing that looks past the fundamental weakness of the case to redefine marriage: “The trouble for [Prof. John] Corvino begins with the tissue-thin brevity of the positive case he makes for “marriage equality,” as he calls it. In a mere eight pages or so—constituting […]

Forbes Columnist: Chick-fil-A May Have Booked Over $100 Million Yesterday

Derek Broes of Forbes.com: “…So, how was the chicken? Amazing! Now I know why people love this place. The store was run extremely well. Clean, polite and efficient. The staff brought water to those in line, they handed out umbrellas for protection from the sun and they served delicious food quickly. This has been replicated […]

Rush Limbaugh: "On November 6th, Obama's Gonna Get Chick-fil-A'd Himself."

Rush Limbaugh on Chick-fil-A Day: “…Let me tell you something.  I am being bombarded with e-mail from my website account, the Rush 24/7 member e-mail, with stories just like the one you’re telling from all over this country about how crowded the Chick-fil-As are, about how long the lines are.  Get this, Jay, I just […]

Brian Brown on How Same-Sex Marriage Will Help Determine the Election

Our president Brian Brown talks to John Roberts of Fox News: “…”Key Democratic constituencies do not support same-sex marriage,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.  “And I think that you are going to see a real lack of support for President Obama from them and then folks in the middle.” Romney […]

Chicago Church Leaders Roast Rahm Emanuel Over Chick-fil-A Stance

FoxNews: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has ticked off the flocks by criticizing Chick-fil-A. Days after the big city boss blasted the chicken chain over its president’s stance on same-sex marriage, an influential Baptist minister and Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago struck back. The religious leaders, who support the traditional view of marriage, […]

New York Times on the Chick-fil-A Business

The editors of the New York Times include comments and conclude this way: “…Speaker Christine Quinn of the New York City Council also overreached when she sent a letter, on Council stationery, calling for the president of New York University to “sever your relationship” with a Chick-fil-A eatery on campus. “Let me be clear,” she […]

NOM's Peters Reacts to News of Democrats Embracing SSM in Their Platform

OneNewsNow: “…Thirty-two states have defined marriage as between one man and one woman, prohibiting recognition of marriage in any other form. Thomas Peters of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) tells OneNewsNow that President Obama and his party are apparently forgetting that. “He’s reopening a can of worms that the voters in these states all kind […]