Tuesday, August 7, 2012

LGBT community should defend Chick-fil-A's freedom of speech?

The views of Chick-fil-A's president, Dan Cathy, are "repugnant and backward," according to Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff, but it's wrong for the gay community to urge government sanction because of those views, he says in a recent editorial.

"Endorsing government attacks on a business over its president’s views -- however offensive and wrong -- is reckless and ignores our community’s long, painful history of being victimized by government officials," Knaff writes.