Regarding the Chick-Fil-A debacle:
I could have given this thread a different title, but what with this being a Christian site and all....well you pretty much get it anyway.
It's a debacle, meaning a great disaster, when men of good conscience and citizenship are not permitted to make a public statement regarding their faith....
It's a debacle when men of good character do not deny another man's rights in any way yet are subject to attempts to deprive them of their own....
It's a debacle when God's word and those who love It are subject to generalized hatred and scoffing...
America has lost its dearest possession - the liberty of a man to speak out and utter a statement of faith and opinion.
Once upon a time I donned a uniform and swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution, yes and the people of America too even if I disagreed with what they speak. I risked my health and lost a bit of it, though not nearly as much as those who gave their all. Clearly the high standard of liberty no longer carries the weight of respect and honor in the United States. I honestly do not believe I'd enlist again. I agree with the late Gore Vidal who once said, "I do not think that the American System in its present state of decadence is worth preserving."
I confess that I've made a terrible mistake. In all the news reports, books, magazines and video documentaries I've inhaled, the main theme has been that Washington DC has robbed us of our liberty. I don't quite believe that any more. After talking personally with incumbents and candidates for political office and reading about stuff like the Chicken sandwich debacle I've come to the realization that the new American repression isn't limited to the geographic area of the District of Columbia. It pervades the state legislatures, county commissioners, city fathers and even the local home owners association.
Liberty is dead and gone brothers, buried in a landslide of entitlement chicken drops. God help us all.
Is it just me, or does the rest of this community have similar perceptions of the present state of our proud new chicken society?
Do you have different perceptions?
Am I just freaked out by only one isolated incident?
What say you?
it's me again, hollering from the choir loft.
I could have given this thread a different title, but what with this being a Christian site and all....well you pretty much get it anyway.
It's a debacle, meaning a great disaster, when men of good conscience and citizenship are not permitted to make a public statement regarding their faith....
It's a debacle when men of good character do not deny another man's rights in any way yet are subject to attempts to deprive them of their own....
It's a debacle when God's word and those who love It are subject to generalized hatred and scoffing...
America has lost its dearest possession - the liberty of a man to speak out and utter a statement of faith and opinion.
Once upon a time I donned a uniform and swore an oath to preserve protect and defend the constitution, yes and the people of America too even if I disagreed with what they speak. I risked my health and lost a bit of it, though not nearly as much as those who gave their all. Clearly the high standard of liberty no longer carries the weight of respect and honor in the United States. I honestly do not believe I'd enlist again. I agree with the late Gore Vidal who once said, "I do not think that the American System in its present state of decadence is worth preserving."
I confess that I've made a terrible mistake. In all the news reports, books, magazines and video documentaries I've inhaled, the main theme has been that Washington DC has robbed us of our liberty. I don't quite believe that any more. After talking personally with incumbents and candidates for political office and reading about stuff like the Chicken sandwich debacle I've come to the realization that the new American repression isn't limited to the geographic area of the District of Columbia. It pervades the state legislatures, county commissioners, city fathers and even the local home owners association.
Liberty is dead and gone brothers, buried in a landslide of entitlement chicken drops. God help us all.
Is it just me, or does the rest of this community have similar perceptions of the present state of our proud new chicken society?
Do you have different perceptions?
Am I just freaked out by only one isolated incident?
What say you?
it's me again, hollering from the choir loft.
