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Henson, Huckabee take sides in Chick-fil-A same-sex marriage controversy
[Updated at 6:36 p.m. ET] The comments about same-sex marriage made by Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy a week ago continue to generate controversy this week, with politicians and fantasy creatures, well at least their handlers, weighing in.
"Guilty as charged," Cathy was quoted as saying in the Baptist Press last week when asked about his company's support of the traditional family unit as opposed to same-sex marriage.
"We are very much supportive of the family - the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business," Cathy was quoted as saying.
That stance didn't go over well with the Jim Henson Co., whose Jim Henson's Creature Shop toys have been served up in Chick-fil-A's meals for kids. Jim Henson Co. is named after the creator of the Muppets, though the company transferred the Muppets' rights and ownership to the Walt Disney Co. in 2003, according to Jim Henson Co.
"The Jim Henson Company has celebrated and embraced diversity and inclusiveness for over fifty years and we have notified Chick-fil-A that we do not wish to partner with them on any future endeavors," the company said in a posting on its Facebook page.
"Lisa Henson, our CEO, is personally a strong supporter of gay marriage and has directed us to donate the payment we received from Chick-fil-A to GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)," the Henson Co.'s posting said.
The posting, which is dated Friday, had drawn more than 10,000 likes and 2,000 comments as of Tuesday morning.
Also drawing numbers on Facebook was a page by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a 2008 GOP presidential candidate, which calls for people to turn out to Chick-fil-A restaurants on August 1 to show their support for what Cathy had to say about marriage.
"I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick fil-A company because the CEO, Dan Cathy, made comments recently in which he affirmed his view that the biblical view of marriage should be upheld," Huckabee wrote on the page, which can also be found at www.ISupportChickFilA.com.
"No one is being asked to make signs, speeches or openly demonstrate. The goal is simple: Let's affirm a business that operates on Christian principles and whose executives are willing to take a stand for the godly values we espouse by simply showing up and eating at Chick-fil-A on Wednesday, August 1," wrote Huckabee. As of Tuesday morning, more than 88,000 people had indicated they would be heading to a restaurant on August 1.
One place Chick-fil-A supporters won't be eating on August 1 is Boston. The Massachusetts capital has no Chick-fil-A restaurants, and after Cathy's comments, Boston's mayor says he doesn't want any in his city.
“Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city, we’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion,” Mayor Thomas M. Menino was quoted as saying by the Boston Herald.
For its part, Chick-fil-A said last week as the controversy was heating up that it didn't want to be involved in politics.
"The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect - regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender. We will continue this tradition in the over 1,600 restaurants run by independent owner/operators. Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena," said a statement from Don Perry, the company's vice president of corporate public relations.
But don't expect those comments to calm things.
The next focus of the controversy may be the Chick-fil-A in Laguna Hills, California. Youth Empowered to Act, an Orange County group of LGBT leaders age 14 to 24, says on its Facebook page it will protest outside the restaurant's opening on Thursday. The group will try to persuade potential customers to take their business to nearby competitors that the group says do more to support LGBT equality, according to a posting on the GLAAD site.
Correction: Previous versions of this story identified toys given away with Chick-Fil-A meals as Muppets. They were not. The toys are characters from Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
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I'm with the Muppets!!!
After reading the comments below, I am thankful that I left the church and no longer need to defer to a 2,000-year-old manuscript to tell me how I should think and feel about everything. Christians are generally afraid of two things – hell and admitting that their parents may have been wrong. Keep your fear of hell to yourself. I'll die for my own sins, thank you.
Well said, thanks!
Will, you believe that sin exists??
@Alexandria VA; Have you ever read the Book of Leviticus?
"@Alexandria VA; Have you ever read the Book of Leviticus?"
Christians don't follow Leviticus anymore, it's part of the Holiness Code, a ritual manual for Israel's priests. Duh!
I hope that someday, soon, this kind of bigotry will be dead in this country.
Parents may have been wrong? Someone is still doubting their lifestyle choice :/
Dave H, you believe in Hell??
We most certainly support Chik-Fil-A and we'll be there Aug 1st! 🙂
Remind me again who "Huckabee" was. Oh right. Didn't he loose his race – again? Could it be that he is out of touch. That has my guess.
I guess anyone who has lost a parent is no longer a real family? Or when one parent leaves the other one to protect the children. Sinners. They should stay in the marriage so other people think everything is fine. As long as it doesn't occur in a Penn State locker room it is probably safe. Oh, and weren't they from good Christian homes? Didn't they say a prayer before the ball game.
The muppets have no place in this controversy – they should be accepting of other's religious choices and tolerant of that. This is a country of diversity in example of religions, race, etc. Stop twisting acceptance of diversity to include sinful gayness. The muppets should NOT be promoting this lifestyle to their children and should be boycotted/ What's next as an alternative lifestyle – murders, thieves, adulterers, etc., will all be accepted – when those are sins and poor moral choices as well? Why do we pick sides? I thought the gays wanted tolerance and acceptance but they can't give any to those that don't agree? Go back in your closets and get out of my children's eyes Satan worshipers and God haters.
"Stop twisting acceptance of diversity to include sinful gayness."
LMAO! I love it! Religious people want it both ways – they want to be able to discriminate against gay people based on obsolete beliefs, and also want to have everybody respect their beliefs because they believe gay people are sinners and everybody should simply agree with them....and then they claim we are "twisting acceptance of diversity"! LOL!
What's next as an alternative lifestyle – murders, thieves, adulterers, etc., will all be accepted – when those are sins and poor moral choices as well?
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This where you show your true ignorance...not surprising!!!!
This is not a question about conservative vs. liberal (although it seems to me that a lot of conservatives are less accepting of other people). This is about human rights. This is akin to racial equality. Now, think of this for example: A restaurant owner says that he is for same race married couples. Years ago, this may have been acceptable, but not at all today. I say, get with the times mister Chick-fil-A and stop mouthing your discriminatory remarks!!
No it's not. I don't know why you gays always try to compare yourselves to blacks.
"No it's not. I don't know why you gays always try to compare yourselves to blacks."
Because they are being denied their civil right to get married. Marriage was defined by the US Supreme Court as a civil right. Recognized federal civil rights law in the United States is grounded in the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court. By this standard, marriage has long been established as a civil right.
The operative constitutional text is section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868. The relevant passages read as follows:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
Good for Chick-fil-A and President Dan Cathy...
@Alexandria VA; Do you continue to follow false Prophets?
Do you continue to follow make believe prophets?
The ? to you is do you belive in a false prophet?
"@Alexandria VA; Do you continue to follow false Prophets?"
Do you continue to read the scriptures with a prejudice heart. The scriptures actually say nothing about homosexuality as a psychosexual orientation. Our understandings of sexual orientation are distinctly modern ones that were not present in the minds of Scripture writers. A few passages of Scripture (seven at the most) object to certain types of same-sex expressions or acts. The particular acts in question, however, are sexual expressions which are exploitative, oppressive, commercialized, or offensive to ancient purity rituals. There is no Scriptural guidance for same-sex relationships which are loving and mutually respecting. Guidelines for these relationships should come from the same general Scriptural norms that apply to heterosexual relationships.
"You already have these rights. You just want "special" rights."
It's about civil rights. Marriage was defined by the US Supreme Court as a civil right. Recognized federal civil rights law in the United States is grounded in the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court. By this standard, marriage has long been established as a civil right.
The operative constitutional text is section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868. The relevant passages read as follows:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
"You already have these rights. You just want "special" rights."
It's about civil rights for gays. Marriage was defined by the US Supreme Court as a civil right. Recognized federal civil rights law in the United States is grounded in the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court. By this standard, marriage has long been established as a civil right.
The operative constitutional text is section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868. The relevant passages read as follows:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I don't think are you reading the same Bible I do! Romans 1:26-32???
Heresy
what a load of crap. you can twist anything into a tube if you really WANT to. Boatload of heresy you spout
I'd sooner believe in a talking frog made of felt than an imaginary all-powerful being in the sky and the hate-mongerers that follow it.
Chuck, why would you believe in a talking frog only 60 odd years old and not an all-powerful being thats only been the loftiest idea in literature for ages?
I've stopped eating at Chck-fil-A. That's a shame as it is a favorite place of my wife. Oh well. That's their loss. They'll learn that bigotry is bad for business.
Yay Muppets! You are as inclusive as I remembered!