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 […]

Dershowitz: Anti-Chick-fil-A Mayors ‘Showing Terrible Intolerance’

Patrick Hobin and John Bachman Newsmax 29 Jul 2012

Mayors who have told the owners of Chick-fil-A that the restaurant chain is not welcome in their cities are displaying “terrible intolerance,” Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

No city is free to discriminate against a company based on the views […]

The Tolerance Enforcers

They’re ever more intolerant of anything less than total ideological homogeneity.

Mark Steyn National Review Online 7/28/2012

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino

 

…Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A…remarked that “we are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and […]

Rahm backs down: We never said we’d block Chick-fil-A from Chicago, says spokesman

Allahpundit HotAir.com 7/27/2012

It grieves me to say it but I think we might owe Mike Bloomberg for this. When even America’s most meddlesome micro-managing mayor endorses the libertarian approach on this subject, the Overton window of acceptable state interference is closed. Best for Rahm to have a spokesman issue a quiet climbdown and then […]

Corruption, unemployment, crime, death and the Nation of Islam brought to you by America’s most liberal mayors. But you can just fugeddabout that meal at Chick-fil-A, haters

Two-Minute Hate’s Two Minutes Are Up, I guess

Glenn Reynolds Instapundit 7/26/2012

Boston Mayor Admits He Can’t Actually Keep Chik-Fil-A Out.

Meanwhile, the hatemongering is starting to alienate gay marriage supporters.

UPDATE: Rahm welcomes help from Farrakahn, ignores anti-Semitic remarks.

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Rev. Billy Graham cheers Cathy family, Chick-fil-A

Rev. Billy Graham, at 93 the senior […]

Michelle Obama ‘raged against Rahm Emmanuel and White House advisors’

Michelle Obama clashed frequently with Rahm Emmanuel, her husband’s White House chief of staff, as the pair vied for influence over the President, according to a new book.

Raf Sanchez Telegraph [UK] 07 Jan 2012

The First Lady reportedly believed that Mr Emmanuel’s willingness to cut backroom deals during the battle over health care […]

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