Rush Limbaugh has come to the aide of
Chick-Fil-A, defending the chicken restaurant from criticism
expressed by Mayors Thomas Menino of Boston and Rahm Emanuel of
Chicago.
After Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy
conceded that his company is opposed to gay marriage and supports
groups opposed to the institution (donating $5 million between 2003
and 2010), Menino wrote a scathing letter to Cathy in which he said
that his fast-food chain was not welcome in Boston.
Emanuel piled on, saying:
“Chick-Fil-A's values are not Chicago values.”
“I personally am in stunned disbelief
over the reaction to this,” Limbaugh told his radio listeners. “We
have two mayors who are essentially Stalinists. We have had no
problem whatsoever … with going before the microphones and telling
an American business, 'You are not welcome here and if you come here
you will be penalized.' All because the guy who owns the outfit
happens to be a publicly professed Christian who believes that
marriage has a specific definition.”
“This is a classic example of a
government destroying an institution that has promoted the kind of
society we have had in the past and the kind of society we've always
wanted.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.
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(Related: Rick
Santorum supports Mike Huckabee's “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day.”)