Conservative radio host Dana Loesch on
Tuesday blasted a caller who criticized Chick-Fil-A's anti-gay rights
stance.
The fast-food chain unleashed a
firestorm of controversy when Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy said
gay marriage is “inviting God's judgment on our nation.” He
pivoted
in a subsequent interview, insisting “we don't have an anti-gay
or anti-anything policy or attitude toward anybody that's out there.”
Between 2003 and 2010, Chick-Fil-A gave nearly $5 million to groups
opposed to gay rights, according to Equality
Matters.
(Related: Billy
Graham defends Chick-Fil-A; Supports Mike Huckabee's appreciation
day.)
“I just want to say that I'm not, you
know, a liberal-Democrat person. I voted conservative my whole life.
And I'm a Christian. But I stopped eating at Chick-Fil-A probably
six months, a year ago when I first heard their views on the gay
community. Because I don't like hate of any kind directed at any
group of people,” Kay stated.
“Well … I'm going to have to
disagree with you on that. You don't sound like any Christian that I
know.”
“I was raised Catholic. I still
practice my Christian faith.”
“But I don't understand how you can
claim to practice the Christian faith while saying that someone
else's Christian viewpoint is hate,” Loesch said. “Can you
explain that to me?”
Loesch argued – and at times spoke
over – her guest until finally she declared: “Kay, I know you
hate Christ but if you're unable to prove your argument that's on
you. … You need to prove or I'm going to have to drop you because
now you're boring me. You called in and said that Christ is hateful,
you're not a Christian, and you just said you hated Christ.”
“I don't want false Christians.
These are the people that make people hate God. Kay is the type of
person that ran people like me off from church. Kay is the type of
person that embarrasses the faith. I'm just saying: read it in the
gospels, it's in the book of Matthew.” (Listen
to the entire segment at EqualityMatters.org.)