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Can it be un-American to be a Christian?
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townhall.com — Can it really be that in America today a businessman can be labeled a bigot, boycotted, and cut off by suppliers because of the crime of being a Christian?

When Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy made his now famous incendiary admission that “We are very much supportive of the family – the biblical definition of the family unit,” he was not pontificating. He was responding to a question in an interview done in a paper I expect not read by many homosexuals – the Baptist Press.

Never mind. It was sufficient provocation that Cathy publicly admitted that the Bible defines his understanding of marriage – the unique bond of man and woman – which also happens to be the standard definition in dictionaries on the shelves of every American home and library.

“Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago’s values,” said Chicago Mayor, and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel. Emmanuel defended Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno’s threat to deny Chick-fil-A permitting in Chicago because its owner supports traditional marriage and family.

But UCLA law professor and constitutional scholar Eugene Volokh points out in his blog that “denying a private business permits because of such speech by its owner is a blatant First Amendment violation.”

Of course society must embrace civility, respect and tolerance. But this doesn’t mean that the sexual proclivities of some should provide license to rewrite our language and the traditions that define our faith and virtue.

Hopefully many will respond to Mike Huckabee’s appeal to patronize Chick-fil-A on August 1 as a display of support for traditional Christian values and as a reminder that our Constitution protects religious freedom.

Have we really gotten to the point where being a Christian is considered un-American?

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Have we really gotten to the point where being a Christian is considered un-American?
Yes, Christian views are not American values
6.1%
Lean to yes
3%
Not sure
0%
Lean to no
3%
No, not by the majority of Americans
88%
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lastbaldeagle
Posted 299 days ago
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Only by liberals, liberal democRATs , Agnostics and Atheists. That does encompass the entire establishment media wing of the extreme left in the democRAT party of course.
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Posted 299 days ago
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No not at all. It is the opposite people on the Right want to reserve exclusivity for people who are Christian, White, and straight. The ideal vision of who is American in the eyes of conservatives. If you lack anyone of these traits you're just one notch less than….
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