ACLU attorney: Blocking Chick-fil-A over gay marriage 'viewpoint discrimination'

[Downtown Hound]

122. No

Because saving the environment is not the same thing as practicing bigotry. The rights of minorities should be protected, and thanks to Obama, that now includes gays as well.

If somebody wanted to try and prevent a company from expanding based on a record of trying to save the environment, first of all, let's see if they can get the support that this boycott is getting. As I've said, much of this is the result of citizens demanding that their local governments deny them permission to expand. But I have a hunch that anybody that tried would probably be laughed at, and rightfully so.

Second of all, with the exception of the pocketbooks of a few already super wealthy corporations, you'd have to demonstrate how going after an environmentally conscious company has hurt anybody en masse, whereas I could show you plenty of evidence ranging from violence to isolation and suicide of how attitudes like the one espoused by Chick-fil-A's CEO has damaged the gay community.

So no matter how much you want to try and pretend that your example is exactly like the situation with Chick-fil-A, it isn't. And again, it's the type of sensationalist and extremest logic that I find more akin to Faux News than DU.