{"id":6932,"date":"2012-07-29T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2017-01-25T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:53:28","slug":"the-aclu-and-chicken-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2012\/07\/the-aclu-and-chicken-gate.html","title":{"rendered":"The ACLU and Chicken Gate…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026 What happens when Chicago Alderman Proco Joe Moreno says, with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, that he intends to block the chain from opening its second Chicago location over president Dan Cathy\u2019s position on gay marriage? Surprisingly, the ACLU says \u201cwrong\u201d. The ACLU\u2019s senior attorney Adam Schwartz told Fox News<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\u201cThe government can regulate discrimination in employment or against customers, but what the government cannot do is to punish someone for their words,\u201d\u2026 \u201cWhen an alderman refuses to allow a business to open because its owner has expressed a viewpoint the government disagrees with, the government is practicing viewpoint discrimination.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One might begin to think it\u2019s the First Amendment that\u2019s not part of \u201cChicago values\u201d; however, the 30 Chicago alderman that have been convicted of criminal activity<\/a> are. Oh, and that anti-semite whack-a-doodle, Louis Farrakhan; he exemplifies Chicago values too. <\/p>\n

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Yup. That\u2019s the Chicago way<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026 What happens when Chicago Alderman Proco Joe Moreno says, with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, that he intends to block the chain from opening its second Chicago location over president Dan Cathy\u2019s position on gay marriage? Surprisingly, the ACLU says \u201cwrong\u201d. The ACLU\u2019s senior attorney Adam Schwartz told Fox News: \u201cThe government […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[487,482,489,490,488,491],"class_list":["post-6932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tolerancenazis","tag-chicken-gate","tag-joe-moreno","tag-nobody-expects-the-homosexual-inquisition","tag-rahm-emmanuel","tag-the-chicago-way"],"yoast_head":"\nThe ACLU and Chicken Gate...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"... 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