Activists protest Chick-fil-A with kisses
Jim Fortier, left, and Mark Toomajian, kiss as they join about two dozen members of gay rights groups and others protesting outside the Decatur, Ga., Chick-fil-A restaurant Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. / AP Photo/David Tulis
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(CBS/AP) ATLANTA - Gay rights activists were kissing at Chick-fil-A stores across the country Friday, just days after the company set a sales record when customers flocked to the restaurants to show support for the fast-food chain president's opposition to same-sex marriage.
Meanwhile, police were investigating graffiti at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Southern California. The graffiti on the side of a restaurant in Torrance said "Tastes like hate" and had a picture of a cow. No one has been arrested.
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The flap began last month when Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told a religious publication that the company backed "the biblical definition of a family" and later said: ""I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, `We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage."'
The statement infuriated same-sex marriage supporters, who planned the so-called kiss-in protests. To counter that demonstration, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and Fox News talk show host, declared Wednesday a Chick-fil-A appreciation day.
The Cathy family has never hid its Southern Baptist faith, even closing its restaurants on Sundays.
Gay marriage supporters, from left, Emmie Hesley, Cathy Dear and Amy Paffenroth hold signs in front of a Chick-fil-A in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
/ Nick Tomecek,AP Photo/Northwest Florida Daily NewsJulie Romano, an organizer at the Decatur, Ga., store, just outside Atlanta, and opposes Cathy's stance, said she thinks the company president "is operating with cafeteria-style religion and a lot of people, extremist like him are, they pick and choose what it is they want to believe."
"As my sign said, Jesus said nothing about homosexuality. And Christianity is about loving people."
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The kiss-in comes two days after gay marriage foes delivered the chain a one-day sales record.
Hundreds of thousands of customers, many of them conservative Christians, attended "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" at more than 1,600 locations on Wednesday, following a call from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and Fox News talk-show host.
Chick-fil-A vice president Steve Robinson said the company won't release sales figures for Wednesday.
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As much as they would like to be seen as a persecuted minority group, gays are neither. Seeing the collective resistance against gay marriage across the nation, they simply changed their tactics and now have a "put it in your face" campaign that they hope will bring people to recognize their relationships as normal, even if it is normal only to them.
So, per my response above, how many of you have learned the original language and read the original, unfettered texts?
You haven't.
So you're placing a lot of faith in a lot of texts that have been reworded many times.
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I have. But I have to comment that no "original texts" exist if you are talking about the 66 books of the Bible. There are some rather early copies but you are quite right about their heavy editing, insertions and additions. Early copies of Mark, for example, do not contain a resurrection scene and almost all legitimate scholars agree that 16:8 was the last verse in the earlier versions.
It is also fair to mention, however, that almost every major religion of the world (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, oriental philosophical religions, etc.) rejects homosexuality with the exception of the Unitarian Universal Church that appears to welcome it.
That's why in states where the citizens were ALLOWED to vote on a constitutional amendment banning "homosexual marriage" the amendment passed easily ... 31 states so far with 0 defeats, including ultra-liberal California! The only states where it's legal are those states where it was FORCED on the citizens by a liberal democrat activist judge or a liberal democrat activist legislature.
They forget how frequently the religious texts have been updated/revised/etc and the veracity/ethics of translators.
Now people are free to learn the original Hebrew and find a copy of the original texts somewhere, but somehow it's easier (and more fun) to listen to someone else spout their spun take and give them money in return for an artery-clogging sandwich.
This type of love and tolerance means allowing the words and teachings of our Christian Bible to be either watered down, edited or totally rejected and replaced by the new "moral" code and anti-Christian ethics. To adhere to one's Christian beliefs is to be labeled, intimidated, and denied the freedom of expression and the right to worship. As Peter asked in the book of Acts, is it right to obey you rather than God? The so called protest has now spread to an attack on his charitable financial donations but just as much as the American Constitution gives him the right to free expression he also has the right to decide to whom and to what causes he chooses to support.
The apparent goal here is not about fairness, freedoms or even co-existence, but rather it's about the silencing of opposing views and total control and domination. You may disagree, but to me, that is inconsequential because I must stand firmly on the Word of God. We should not allow ourselves to be bullied seeing that we have the God given right to disagree with our fellow man no matter who they are.
NO, YOU HAVE NOT WON YOU WILL BE PUNISH FOR HAVING ''FORBIDEN SEX''.....
Given all that I am at a loss to understand all the commotion over Chick-fil-A. The CEO stated his beliefs on gay marriage on a conservative talk show (imagine that) and those that support same sex marriage spoke out in opposition to his comments (again big surprise). Those that suppirted the CEO, in a fit of moral outrage and false outrage over some suspected attempt to silence free speech oragnized a Chick-fil-A day. (Knock yourslves out dudes). In reposnse or maybe even prior to that demonstration the opposition organizes a Kiss-in (seems kind of stupid but again - knock yourselves out). In the end this is really just an overblown demonstration of free speech on both sides of the issue without actully changing anyones minds but making CBS and all the other news outlest (and yes that includes FOX) a lot of money. Everyone happy now?