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“Save Chick-fil-A” bill passes in Tx House. GOP is learning to fight and Tx is leading the way in its own way.
The government should not take any adverse actions against those exercising there constitutional rights.
The rights of one is not superior to that of another.
“It strengthens and reaffirms Texas’s First Amendment rights,” Republican state Rep. Matt Krause said to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We had seen instances around the country where individuals were starting to be penalized … for what they believed or who they associated with.”
So they government gets involved in dictating which fast food joints can open a franchise and where......the owners of the places have no say in it.
Chick fil A doesn’t need any help. They have only 2,200 locations (in contrast McDonald’s has 14,000), they’re closed 1 day a week and yet are the #3 fast food restaurant. They don’t need any help from Texas to continue to succeed.
I guess it’s slow season in the Texas legislature. All they need now is a companion bill declaring chicken delicious. Maybe a resolution making Doodles the Chicken the official state bird.
HA HA HA!
A lot of airports, etc don't want Chick Filet in there because they aren't open on Sunday.
But, hey, let's let the GOP spend taxpayer money to force them.
PROJECT BLITZ IS A COORDINATED NATIONAL EFFORT TO CODIFY A FAR-RIGHT, EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN AMERICA
Project Blitz is part of a larger national trend to redefine religious liberty as a sword used to harm others instead of a shield that protects people. Its organizers' strategy is to pass an increasingly ambitious set of state laws, starting with bills that require prominently displaying “In God We Trust” and establishing Bible classes in public schools and escalating to laws that would permit religion to be used to justify discrimination.
While maybe not tehnically illegal (as cities are creatures of the state), it is quite frankly awfully authoritarian and mighty hypocritical coming from a party that loves to preach about small government. Furthermore, I have no doubt yhe city of San Antonio wil challenge it in court, wasting millions of Texas' taxpayer dollars to defend what's ultimately petty legislation.
From a philosophical standpoint, municipalities should be free to decline investment from whoever they want. And turnabout is always fair play. GOP politicians certainly wouldn't like it if Democratic politicians forced their suburban/rural municipalites to accept apartments or homeless shelter, when they cry about them "changing the character of their community" and "bringing in riff raff."
Neither hypocritical nor authoritarian. Rather, this is a move against a city taking adverse action against an entity because the city doesn't like the organization's religious views. When a city fails to behave itself and respect diversity and religious beliefs (behaving authoritarian in the process), it is more than appropriate for the state to step in and correct matters.
Religious beliefs are the best justifications for un-godly behavior.
You're entitled to your view (and I agree with you in many cases), but we get into trouble when government decides to take action because it doesn't like your religious beliefs, something the Supreme Court made clear most recently in the Masterpiece Cake Shop case. If private citizens want to boycott an organization because they don't like its views, that's one thing. But we should all be concerned when government tries to take action because it doesn't like an organization's beliefs.
Stupid that they had to go through this just to get a restaurant allowed that had no sane reason not to be allowed in the first place. Watch it go on to be the #1 place at the airport.
So they government gets involved in dictating which fast food joints can open a franchise and where......the owners of the places have no say in it.
I see you don't understand the issue. Read up on the 1st amendment !!! Get a tutor if necessary !!!
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