Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston has a message for Chick-fil-A’s conservative Christian owner: stay out of his city. Angered by Dan Cathy’s stated opposition to homosexual marriage, Mayor Menino recently published a letter online in which he admits his anger at Cathy and brags about his commitment to gay pride, equality and homosexual marriage. Mayor Menino wrote:
I was angry to learn on the heels of your prejudiced statements about your search for a site to locate in Boston. There is no place for discrimination on Boston’s Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it. When Massachusetts became the first state in the country to recognize equal marriage rights, I personally stood on City Hall Plaza to greet same sex couples coming here to be married. It would be an insult to them and to our city’s long history of expanding freedom to have a Chick-fil-A across the street from that spot.
Faced with the Yankee hostility and worldview of someone like Mayor Menino I am again reminded why our Southern ancestors grew to lament the tragic Union between the South and New England and eventually sought to separate from such people who in their modern form have given us the likes of Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bernie Sanders, Chris Dodd and Thomas Menino. President Jefferson Davis understood such people well and described them in an 1862 speech as ‘a people so devoid of every mark of civilization.’ He went on to say of Southerners and Yankees:
Thomas Menino is angered by traditional Christianity
There is indeed a difference between the two peoples. Let no man hug the delusion that there can be renewed association between them. Our enemies are a traditionless and a homeless race.
Still wondering when the so called conservatives will wake up and realize that despite what Sarah Palin may think we are not “one nation” of people. Honestly, the culture in the Northeast is as foreign to me as the country Ecuador. If conservatives actually want to conserve something they have to realize that they have to seek to separate themselves from their cultural enemies rather than just seek to defeat them at the ballot box.
I 100% agree, Anti-Federalist.
With that type of reception I don’t see why Chick-fil-A would even want to do business in Boston now. After all, I am sure that there are plenty other cities out their that would be willing to welcome then, even if they don’t agree with Cathy’s statement. The Yankee mentality will always be a mystery to me, with them trying to use government force whenever someone doesn’t share the same beliefs. Unfortunately, this Yankee mentality has also influenced and affected Dixie, with religious nuts attempting to use government to enforce their version of morality on others.
I feel sorry for Boston. They might miss out on the best fast-food chicken sandwich ever made (it’s like magic- chicken with a pickle = delicious).
What the Mayor said cannot that be classified as hate speech? Ahh, no. The owner is a Christian and it is OK to demigog them because it is, as with the Southern people, open season on them. What happened to letting the people of Boston decide whether or not Chick-fil-a should have a store there? To me what the Mayor said was tantamount to denying a person his/her right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (actually that should read property, but we all know how that end up not being written in the US Constitution).
I guess this just shows that New Englanders are over the top with Multicultural, Universalist, Egalitarian ‘melting pot’ crap they continually espouse. Just my thoughts.
Deo Vindice