The
Obama Left places believing Christians in the same moral category as
racists. The bullying has escalated to the point that prominent liberal
mayors, such as Chicago's Rahm Emanuel, now openly say that Christians
are unworthy of even running a fast food chain in the public square."Chick-fil-A's values are not Chicago values. They're not respectful of our residents, our neighbors and our family members. And if you're gonna be part of the Chicago community, you should reflect Chicago values," said Emanuel, backing alderman Joe Moreno's goal of preventing the chicken restaurant from opening its doors in the Logan Square neighborhood.
This is a stunning doubling down in the left's war on Christianity by
a prominent Democrat. Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, has in
effect told the religious across the country, in an election year no
less, that traditional Christian values are not American values.
Obama supporter Tom Hanks once said that opponents of gay marriage in
California were "un-American," but Emanuel's comment spells this view
out even more explicitly. The dictatorship of relativism, to borrow Pope
Benedict XVI's phrase, has never been more cocky. Apparently, Americans
must not only learn to live under the amoral style of "Chicago
politics" but also under the in-your-face secularism of "Chicago
values."
A less biased press would see great significance in Emanuel's
thuggish phrase. But since reporters sympathize with the Left's war on
Christianity, and since Mitt Romney shows little to no interest in
engaging Obama on non-economic matters, this remarkable outburst will
not get the attention it deserves. Has the culture really changed so
quickly and dramatically that a position held by many Democrats,
including the president, just months ago -- a position ratified by the
people in over thirty states -- can be the grounds for depriving a
chicken restaurant chain from operating in major American cities?
Emanuel has been joined by Boston mayor Thomas Menino in this
get-the-hell-out-of-my-city message to Christians. "In recent days you
said Chick-fil-A opposes same-sex marriage, and said the generation that
supports it has an 'arrogant attitude,'" Menino wrote to the company's
top executive in Atlanta. "Now -- incredibly -- your company says you
are backing out of the same-sex marriage debate. I urge you to back out
of your plans to locate in Boston."
All of this tough talk is dished up with the usual irony-oblivious
prattle about tolerance and freedom. No one is more intolerant than a
"tolerant" liberal. It has been reported that Menino didn't want a
Chick-fil-A anywhere near the "Freedom trail" in Boston. Well, if that
is the way he feels, perhaps Menino should dig up and ban the "Freedom
trail," since the founding fathers who blazed it agreed completely with
St. Paul's condemnation of homosexual behavior. They never confused
liberty with secularist license. Even the mere phrase "gay marriage"
would have been unfathomable to them.
The values of the Boy Scouts (another blameless group tormented by
oh-so-progressive mayors) and Chick-fil-A are not foreign to America's
principles, but the "Chicago values" of the Obama left certainly are.
This level of secularist hubris is unprecedented in American
history. Not only must Christians pay for what they see as the immoral
practices decreed by Obama, pace the HHS mandate, they aren't even
permitted to harbor "thoughts" contrary to regnant secularist
propaganda.
The executives of Chick-fil-A simply hold the view that redefining
marriage is wrong. So do millions of Americans, as seen every time it
comes up for a direct vote in state referenda. Yet that's enough to deny
them from opening restaurants in major American cities like they are
segregationists? This is unbelievable.
Americans are coming to see in more and more graphic form-from the
HHS mandate all the way down to mayoral decrees enforcing political
correctness-what Obama meant when he said in the 2008 campaign that he
was going to "fundamentally transform" the country. He is the "one" we
have "been waiting for," his supporters chanted, meaning that he would
run the ball into the end zone for radicalism.
He is building a secularist Animal Farm which no one is free
to leave. For all of his talk about "privacy," nothing in the end is
private under his coercive mentality. A chance remark to a reporter by a
fast food executive can become the occasion for destroying a company.
In Obamaland, you either bow to his new morality of abortion and gay
marriage or you go out of business.
That is the Chicago way, and now "Chicago values."
No comments:
Post a Comment