Chik-Fil-A Gay Fallout

[Mr Khan]

mrstickball said:

Mr Khan said:

The vast majority of the work, certainly, but occasionally they organize or put funding towards efforts like California's Prop 8, making targeting them a viable action. And because they are indeed working to deny legal rights to a certain group of people, this is something that should be duly campaigned against.

Your line of thinking bothers me because the notion of "bigotry" is not a two-way street. Would people who harrass the Ku Klux Klan for what that group does be considered bigots? The efforts to correct bigotry, either by discrediting bigots or working to reform their views, is not bigotry itself.

Did you bother reading EqualityMatter's statements on the various organizations in question?

Their attacks had nothing to do with political motives of the organizations - going after them attempting to undermine the rights of gays. But rather, they went against the idea that any organization could even disagree with homosexuality.

From their statement on FCA:

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The application to become an FCA Ministry Leader requires applicants to agree with the FCA's Sexual Purity Statement, which condemns gays as engaging in an "Impure Lifestyle":

God desires His children to lead pure lives of holiness. The Bible is clear in teaching on sexual sin including sex outside of marriage and homosexual acts. Neither heterosexual sex outside of marriage nor any homosexual act constitute an alternate lifestyle acceptable to God. [FCA Application, accessed

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Their argument isn't that FCA is trying to undermine their lifestyle from a political standpoint, but the simple notion that FCA disagrees with their lifestyle. So if bigotry is a metric of forcing others into doing something (e.g. taking away someones' rights), then its clear that EqualityMatters wants to take away their right to disagree.

That is equally as abhorrent as an organization that would attempt to take away rights from others, or continue to supress the rights of others. The right to free speech is the cornerstone of our society, and EqualityMatters wants to undermine that. They are doing it under the guise of other things, but what they're doing is just as egregious as the same people that passed Prop 8.

Change gay marriage to interracial marriage, and reread the statement on FCA. If members of an organization had to agree that interracial marriage is a bad thing to advance, wouldn't that make the organization worthy of rebuke? So it is with tolerance of homosexuality. If an institution fosters intolerance, then that's a bad thing. They have every right to do it, but that wouldn't take away the right of others to demonize the hell out of them for it.

The expression of disagreement is morally wrong and worthy of attack.