According to the Support Chick-fil-A Facebook page, more than 550,000 people have committed to visit the fast-food restaurant.Led by former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day has gained the support of influential Christian leaders including evangelist Billy Graham.
The public event was created in response to the backlash the restaurant was facing after its president, Dan Cathy, affirmed his belief in traditional marriage, or the “biblical definition of the family unit.”
His comments were made to the Biblical Recorder, a Baptist publication, and they have been met by protests from the LGBT community, with some elected officials, including the mayor of Boston, threatening to block the company from opening a restaurant in their city.
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary President Daniel Akin has encouraged students to join the action and be a patron Wednesday and expressed gratitude to Cathy and his family for “taking a stand that reflects their biblical convictions” and doing so “with grace and kindness.”
“This entire situation is a sad commentary on the moral slide of our nation and the ‘bully politics’ that too often rears its ugly head,” he said in a blog post. “It is one thing to be a hatemonger and seek the hurt of another. It is something altogether different to take a gracious stand, rooted in biblical conviction, that only wants the best for another, and be labeled as intolerant and a bigot. The intolerance of those screaming for tolerance has become deafening. It is also, in many instances, dishonest.”
Chick-fil-A issued a statement earlier this month saying its “culture and service tradition” is “to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender.”
It also stated, “[W]e plan to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the political arena.”
Dr. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, pointed out the irony in that people were calling for the exclusion of Chick-fil-A “in the name of inclusion.”
“The threats made against Chick-fil-A betray the principle of religious liberty that is enshrined within the U.S. Constitution,” Mohler said in a commentary on CNN. “Civic officials in some of the nation’s largest and most powerful cities have openly threatened to oppose Chick-fil-A for the singular reason that its president openly spoke of his Christian convictions concerning marriage.”
“When [Chicago Mayor Rahm] Emanuel and [Chicago Alderman Proco] Moreno tell Chick-fil-A to stay out of Chicago, are they audacious enough to deliver that same message to the churches, mosques and synagogues of their city that also oppose same-sex marriage?”
Huckabee has also criticized the “vitriolic assaults” on the restaurant, saying, “Only a puppet would have a problem with free speech.”
Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day is not being launched by the Chick Fil-A company and no one from the company or family is involved in proposing or promoting it.
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[Howdy, Wreckless. Check out this goodie I spotted on the exciting net.]
The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad !
(This sinister jihad is part of the end-time “days of Lot” – coordinated worldwide by powerful unseen beings – that Jesus predicted in Luke 17. To see if you are part of this soul-damning craze, read on!)
Google “Zombietime” and click on “Up Your Alley Fair.” After recovering, Yahoo “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up” on the “ucmpage” listing (even Jesus told Judas to hurry up – John 13:27). Also Yahoo “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.”
Read this before the predicted California earthquake happens a la Rev.16:19 (“the cities of the nations fell”) – and before hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and other disasters occur! The fast-moving goal of Gaydom is to quietly sneak its depravity on to every Main Street on earth while normal folks stay asleep and do nothing. I wonder how soon San Francisco’s underground saint – San Andreas – will get a big jolt out of the public gay porn that goes on over his head in “Madam” Nancy Pelosi’s brothel district in front of children! Not one to mince words, Jesus said in Mark 9:42 that anyone hurting a child in any way deserves to be hanged and have his body thrown into the ocean!
It’s far from coincidental that the more America elevates gays and senseless violence (see the predicted “days” of “Lot” and “Noah” in Luke 17), the more the cost of gas, food etc. goes up! If America is smart, it will pick up the big dust-covered book everyone owns and almost never reads – no, not the Sears catalog – and find out that the One who made the universe has some rights too! (Also Google “Obama Fulfilling the Bible.”)
Gays like to say that Jesus didn’t explicitly mention homosexuality. Well, when gays are about to have a birthday, they don’t talk about all the things they don’t want. Instead they speak positively about what they’d like to receive. In the same manner Jesus, instead of negatively listing every sexual variation and perversion that He knew mankind would invent, avoided an endless list of “thou-shall-nots” and positively stated that marriage was created for only one man and one woman. BTW, by fulfilling the same “days of Lot,” gays are actually hurrying up the return of Christ as Judge and helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(Obama and his porn-protecting California friends – including Brown and Pelosi – did NOT approve of this message.)
Hi Shelly,
I’ll be checking in to all this. Nothing surprises us these days , there is no end to all this evil, for mens hearts will fail them for fear for the things coming upon the earth. Homosexuality, abortion and everything else deemed “do as though will” will most certainly increase and ultimately be judged. These corrupt and disgusting so called luciferian leaders better “turn or burn”, for the rocks will not be able to hide them in the coming days of judgement. Mock God some more you fools. For our Lord Jesus is rich in mercy desiring that none shall perish, but little do they know that our prayers have not gone unanswered, they are just, and only on hold for a little longer. (Obama, Pelosi, Clinton, or the other 99% of the White House will not approve of this message) As it was in the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming (days) of the son of man be… when He is revealed.