Guns and Chick-Fil-A a matter of trust

I have heard a lot of peo­ple on the left self right­eously com­plain that con­ser­v­a­tives are unwill­ing to agree to “com­mon sense gun con­trol” that we are unrea­son­able fanat­ics who would oppose restric­tions on the own­er­ship of Sher­man Tanks.

Most of all; we are totally wrong to believe that the left is after our guns just because of the pro­posed assault weapon ban.

Why would we have such a belief, how can the folks on the right even think we on the left are after their guns, all their guns?

The answer: Chick-​Fil-​A

Twenty years ago there was nobody NOBODY nation­ally who was push­ing the idea of gay mar­riage. If Bill Clin­ton had come out for Gay Mar­riage in 1992 he would have lost 49 states.

Then came the VT Supreme Court rul­ing requir­ing civil partnerships.

When peo­ple sug­gested that this was going to lead to Gay Mar­riage lib­er­als insisted they were alarmist. Nobody in the main­stream was push­ing Gay Mar­riage and the whole argu­ment was absurd. This was just address­ing inher­i­tance and hos­pi­tal vis­i­ta­tion issues which were not unreasonable.

In 1996 the defense of Mar­riage Act was pro­posed, at the time it was sug­gested that instead of a law, a con­sti­tu­tional amend­ment for­mally declar­ing Mar­riage was between a man or Woman should be passed. Such peo­ple were dis­missed as alarmists. Nobody was talk­ing about legal­iz­ing Gay Mar­riage and there was absolutely no need of a Con­sti­tu­tional Amend­ment to define a word the mean­ing of which the nation had under­stood for cen­turies.

No amend­ment was forth­com­ing but DOMA passed 85 – 14 in the Sen­ate & 342 – 67 in the house. Democ­rats over­whelm­ingly sup­ported the bill (32−14 sen­ate & 188 – 65 house). Bill Clin­ton signed the bill into law and that was that.

Until for the third time a lib­eral State (Mass­a­chu­setts) by a 4 – 3 rul­ing declared Gay Mar­riage Legal. Again we were told not to worry, the legal­ity of Gay Mar­riage was just a ques­tion of equal­ity and it wouldn’t make any dif­fer­ence in the lives of those who opposed it.

Then came the per­se­cu­tion of par­ents who opposed it.

Then came the Catholic Church being given a choice, vio­late your beliefs or stop plac­ing chil­dren for adop­tion: never mind how well you place the chil­dren hard­est to find homes for.

And as the sup­port­ers of Gay Mar­riage lost vote after vote after vote (and con­tinue to block any vote in Mass­a­chu­setts) they became louder and more vit­ri­olic even to the point of assault

Look at mem­o­ran­dum on given day. Any per­son who opposes Gay Mar­riage is not defined as against “Gay Mar­riage” they are defined as “anti-​gay” a bigot.

And now comes the May­ors of two large cities, Chicago & Boston, declar­ing pub­licly that Chick-​fil-​a is not wel­come. That Chick-​fil-​a for dar­ing to have Bib­li­cal prin­ci­ples and sup­port them have no place in their civ­i­lized cities.

And if Chick-​Fil-​A is guilty then so is every Catholic Church, every Ortho­dox Church, Every Mosque (well appar­ently not Every Mosque) and the vast major­ity of Protes­tant Churches in the coun­try, (at least the ones that are grow­ing). If they are not wel­come nei­ther is the busi­ness of any per­son of faith who doesn’t bend to the pres­sure media and money can pro­vide, a pres­sure that the Pres­i­dent wilted against.

We have reached the point from the legal­ity of Gay Mar­riage in Mass­a­chu­setts, to the Mayor of the largest city in the Com­mon­wealth pub­licly declar­ing in effect: If your busi­ness dare oppose the lib­eral polit­i­cally cor­rect posi­tion , your enter­prise doesn’t belong in our enlight­ened city.

This has hap­pened in the space of a decade, after being assured that “Gay Mar­riage” would have no effect on any­one else.

So when you on the left tell us, assure us, and promise us that if we on the right agree to just a lit­tle bit of Gun Con­trol, you have our word that we have no designs on your per­sonal firearms or any­thing else, you’ll par­don us for declaring:

You Lie!

If we are stu­pid enough to believe you on gun con­trol then we deserve to lose the rights we are fight­ing to defend.

Update: Insta­lanche, thanks Glenn, Stay tuned for my visit to the near­est Chick-​Fil-​A (Had to go to NH to do it). Remem­ber tomor­row 10 a.m. Clay­ton Cramer will be on DaT­e­chGuy on daRa­dio talk­ing his new book and in the sec­ond hour call 888 – 9-​fedora and you can talk Chick-​Fil-​A and guns with me directly on WCRM AM 830

Update 2: So it’s the Bigot card now eh, OK two can play at that game

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