{"id":2420,"date":"2012-09-26T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/dont-tell-me-a-chicago-alderman-lied.html"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T12:52:00","slug":"dont-tell-me-a-chicago-alderman-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/dont-tell-me-a-chicago-alderman-lied.html","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t tell me a Chicago Alderman lied"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Because if this story is correct, Chick-fil-A may <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chick-fil-ceo-denies-giving-concessions-open-chicago-200551778--abc-news-politics.html?bcmt_s=m#ugccmt-container\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">not have surrendered to the leftist juggernaut<\/a> of censorship and oppression as quickly as Joe Moreno indicated. \u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0obvious\u00a0that CEO Dan Cathy has been forced to reevaluate how he expresses his non-liberal views, and\u00a0reevaluate\u00a0what non-liberal organizations he chooses to support. \u00a0This is just part of 21st century American living. \u00a0If you aren\u2019t liberal, you had better watch your butt. \u00a0Still, the stories that Cathy and Chick-fil-A were severing all ties with groups that blaspheme the gospel of non-heterosexual normality, all of which seemed to\u00a0originate\u00a0with one of the\u00a0Chicago\u00a0Aldermen who was proud of his brutal Orwellian inspired tactics, may have been overplayed. \u00a0If so, I\u2019ll see. \u00a0I still have hope\u00a0that\u00a0you can openly be non-leftist in our country, and if Cathy is keeping the faith, that shows there\u2019s still hope for other non-leftists in America.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because if this story is correct, Chick-fil-A may not have surrendered to the leftist juggernaut of censorship and oppression as quickly as Joe Moreno indicated. \u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0obvious\u00a0that CEO Dan Cathy has been forced to reevaluate how he expresses his non-liberal views, and\u00a0reevaluate\u00a0what non-liberal organizations he chooses to support. \u00a0This is just part of 21st century American 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