by Bren Shucart
August 2, 2012
On Monday, R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans, weighed in on the recent controversies swirling around Chick-fil-A after its president, Dan Cathy, admitted that his company gives financial support to anti-gay causes, and decreed that the whole debate was an "empty calorie diversion from equality." And warned us that an "anti-Chick-fil-A crusade" might play well in the "Democratic Enclaves" (read: godless pits of vice) on the coasts, but in "America's Heartland" (you know, the real America) queers loudly and visibly standing up for our rights is turning conservatives, moderates, and independents against us.
You see, Mr. Cooper seems to feel that we've just about convinced social conservatives that we are human beings and if we stay on our best behavior for just a little bit longer and don't cause a ruckus, then they will graciously grant us our natural rights. And by drawing attention to Mr. Cathy's material support for bigotry we are somehow betraying those conservatives who have stood up for common decency and marriage equality (I love you, Meghan McCain! I hope you don't feel betrayed!). Then he invokes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (seemingly without irony) and then Thomas Jefferson.
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You are wrong, Mr. Cooper. There most certainly is not "room for disagreement" when it comes to marriage equality. Just as there is no longer room for disagreement on school integration or disenfranchising women voters. These are the positions of the truly un-American. And if Chick-fil-A ends up shutting it's doors for good it wont be because America's 9 million or so homosexuals and a couple of liberal mayors were able to somehow bully them into oblivion, but rather because of a change in American culture. A refusal to accept bigotry and persecution, no mater the scripture sighted to justify it.
And that culture is changing, but the work is far from over. And it never will be if we heed the advice of self appointed "leaders" who tell us to play nice and wait patiently for discrimination to fade away. In the words of Dr. King.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bren-shucart/chick-fil-a-anti-gay-marriage-_b_1726953.html
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