I went to Chick-fil-A this morning for breakfast to participate in the unofficial Appreciation Day. I could not resist, because anything that is a slap in Rahm Emmanuel's face is a good thing. Kind of like how I felt like switching my daughter over to formula when I heard that Mayor Bloomberg wants hospitals to hide formula from new mothers and force them to nurse. Call it spite. I call it willful disobedience. I pray for their conversion, for their own sake, and for our country's sake.
I find the Chick-fil-A "boycott" to be rather amusing. Have these people never been in a Chick-fil-A? Let's see, they are closed on Sundays, hire extremely (at least here in the South) polite people, and have Christian radio over the loudspeakers. It is a shock that the owners are, Christian? Have they ever discriminated against someone with same sex attraction? Not to my knowledge. They serve everyone equally. They just don't ask and really don't need to know their customers' sexual preferences, neither do I.
Here is my beef, I am sick of companies coming out in support of controversial issues. If an individual in a company, like the owner of Chick-fil-A, as an individual, wants to say they are for or against something that is fine, but branding a company as pro-same sex "marriage" or against, is foolish and unnecessary. Yeah, Starbuck's. I feel the same way about the abortion issue. My husband and I try our best to avoid companies who openly support Planned Parenthood. Starbuck's and Home Depot are big on the gay "marriage" lobby. Why make your company a tool in a political scheme? You lose customers and look ridiculous. Look, I don't care about your company's preferences. I go to Starbuck's to get my Pumpkin Spice Latte not give money to a type of "marriage" that is not marriage at all and is purely a push to force, through coercion, people to accept behavior that is against the natural law. My husband and I are Lowe's people, but it is the same thing with Home Depot. Or companies like Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Kraft, etc. who openly support abortion. I do not want to hear about how your company thinks it is okay to murder innocent babies, I want to be able to get seafood on a Friday in Lent. I am talking to you parent company of Red Lobster. I would hazard a guess, that a lot of employees in these companies do not want to be branded either and that it would require many of them to re-consider their employment.
While polls suggest that we are losing the gay "marriage" issue, except how it is voted down every single time it is taken to the ballot, I think the more we are bullied, the more we will fight back. It is just like the HHS mandate. Obama made a huge mistake thinking that the dying sect of post-Vatican II liberal "Catholics" would supersede those who love the actual Mystical Body of Christ and her stewards in Rome. The days of felt crafts and feel good secularized religion are over. Catholics want authentic Catholicism, not nuns who abandon the habit because they stand out, or priests who put on shows in the Liturgy. With authentic Catholicism, comes a desire for the Truth, even the hard truths, such as that marriage is between one man and one woman and that abortion and contraception are evil. I am not interested in someone's feel good, made up Christ. I am searching for the real Christ, who died on the Cross, who sees my sins and forgives me, but after that forgiveness comes the line (that our society likes to forget), "Go and sin no more". If I wanted a free pass, I would be an atheist (which is a more painful thought for me). I am not being nasty here. I mean that if I wanted to be able to do anything because there is not God to hold me accountable, then I would be an atheist. I am aware that it is more complicated than that, but at the same time it is not.
The world desperately needs Christ. The real Christ in our midst. Who loves all of us and desires that we become transfigured through Him. Is it hard? You bet. Is it scary? Absolutely. Does it come with sacrifice? Yes, but all good things come with sacrifice. Is it radically counter-cultural? Heck yes! I am looking for Him. The only one who can save me. I want to know Him and that will be my whole life. So, that means that I have to defend tenenants of the natural law. Not because God needs me to defend Him. No because as we stand up, we witness to the Truth and help others to question mammon. So go get a chicken sandwich in the name of INDIVIDUAL free speech, just save me one and a chocolate shake. God bless.
My husband and I are heading up to the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati area tomorrow to visit family. See you next week! May God bless you always.
I obviously meant this for companies who sell secular goods and services i.e. coffee, tools, food, etc. If a company has a religious or ideological identity and sells goods in line with that ideology then that is their prerogative. They make it known up front.
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