Chicago church leaders roast Rahm Emanuel over Chick-fil-A stance

Maegan Vazquez
FoxNews.com
7/31/2012

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has ticked off the flocks by criticizing Chick-fil-A.

Days after the big city boss blasted the chicken chain over its president’s stance on same-sex marriage, an influential Baptist minister and Cardinal Francis George of the Archdiocese of Chicago struck back. The religious leaders, who support the traditional view of marriage, were incensed at Emanuel’s claim that “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values.”

“Do not disrespect us…We, too, are Chicago,” the Rev. Charles Lyons of the Armitage Baptist Church thundered from the pulpit Sunday.

Cardinal Francis George also criticized Emanuel’s stance, asking in the Catholic Chicago Blog if everyone who did not agree with Emanuel faced a similar fate.

“Must those whose personal values do not conform to those of the government of the day move from the city,” George wondered. “Is the City Council going to set up a ‘Council Committee on Un-Chicagoan Activities’ and call those of us who are suspect to appear before it?”…

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