THOUGHTBOX

So what's been happening recently is that Christian fast food business Chick-Fil-A has been getting a lot of backlash over their stance against gay marriage. Former US presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee instituted "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day" as an opportunity for customers who strongly believe in Christian values to celebrate their belief, and the event has been a major success with packed restaurants coming to support the company CEO, Dan Cathy, who recently came out with statements against same sex marriage. The backlash has really divided the American nation and global public into two separate sides. On the one hand, you have pro-gay activists and same sex marriage supporters boycotting restaurants in the chain and lashing out at Dan Cathy and his company for their homophobic stance, while also criticizing Chick-Fil-A for giving millions of dollars to groups that advocate against gay rights and same sex marriage. On the other side of the fence, conservative ...

Following Obama's support of same-sex marriage, there has been quite the backlash across traditional communities in the States. But I haven't seen anything come close to this dogmatic tirade that reeks of bigotry. During a sermon, pastor Charles L. Worley interrupted his anti-Obama rant to present the "solution" to the homosexual "problem". Here's a snippet : I figured a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers. Build a great, big, large fence — 150- or 100-mile-long — put all the lesbians in there… Do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals and have that fence electrified so they can’t get out… And you know what, in a few years, they’ll die. After a few more jabs at homosexuals and lesbians, all of them enthusiastically approved with "Amens", he concluded: God have mercy. It makes me pukin’ sick to think about — I don’t even know whether or not to say this in the pulpit — can you imagine kissing some man? ...