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Did you have a filet on chicken day?

My sympathy goes out to the president of the Chamber of Commerce where I live. Here Rob Clapper was simply trying to line up an interesting speaker and suddenly he’s in the midst of a controversy.

Who would have thought when he scheduled Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest as the November speaker that Forrest’s views on white supremacy would become the focal point of the event?

“We had begun to coordinate it long before his remarks, but his remarks are irrelevant because this chamber does not engage in or have a part in social issues, “ Clapper said.

“Regardless of what his personal beliefs are and what he’s stated about social issues, that doesn’t play a part in what he’s coming here to speak about. Many of our members…have expressed a strong desire to hear the business practices and strategies that the KKK deploys in building a nationwide organization with over one million members,” Clapper concluded.

Oh, wait — inviting a genuine bigot who promoted violence and intimidation would have been a genuine controversy. Instead what we have here is a faux controversy ginned up by the same fanatics supporting faux marriage.

When Clapper invited Chick–fil–A President Dan Cathy to speak to the chamber it should have been an interesting event with an excellent speaker. Instead Clapper is now fielding questions from hysterical grievance–mongers who make it a point to attack any public figure that does not support their unprecedented redefinition of marriage.

Well, you may say, that’s what Clapper gets for spewing his “hate” during a news conference at the National Press Club. Except that’s not what happened. Clapper was interviewed by the Baptist Press. So a Baptist news service was interviewing a prominent Baptist about his faith. Homosexual extremists had to conduct an extensive search to find something that would offend them.

What’s more, during the interview Cathy didn’t “attack homosexuals” and he didn’t “oppose homosexual marriage.” Here’s what he said after being asked if he and the company support the traditional family, “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit…We intend to stay the course, we know that it might not be popular with everyone, but thank the Lord, we live in a country where we can share our values and operate on biblical principles.”

In an earlier interview with the Biblical Recorder, a weekly newspaper published by the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Cathy said, “We are very much supportive of the family – the Biblical definition of the family unit…I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’ and I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is about.”

It’s not like Cathy was asked to cater a homosexual wedding, although I’m sure there will soon be an avalanche of carefully documented requests by wedding parties eager to exchange their free–range, living–will crab cake tapas for a wheelbarrow full of Chick–fil–A nuggets.

Cathy was simply making a positive statement regarding what he believed. It was hardly a declaration of war on homosexual “matrimony” and I doubt many would consider the Biblical Recorder a national platform rivaling the Washington Post.

Still, Cathy does not appear to have read the part of the Constitution stipulating the separation of God and mammon. In today’s Brave Liberal World you are grudgingly allowed to practice Christianity in the privacy of your own home, as long as everyone is a willing participant and you practice “safe religion.” Of course there is zero tolerance for Christians if they start proselytizing at rest stops and in public parks.

On the other hand, if Chick–fil–A wanted to sponsor a float in a homosexual “pride” parade — where participants often dress as sexual organs and the behavior by some participants is so vile you would cover the eyes of children — Cathy might land a profile in the New York Times.

Social conservatives are in a culture war with an opponent that will accept no compromise. By the time you read this “Chick–fil–A Appreciation Day” will be over. I hope millions of Americans supported a company that is not cowed by the liberal media and homosexual extremists.

Even more, I hope that at the next chamber board meeting they not only reaffirm their invitation to Dan Cathy, but they do it between bites of a Chick–fil–A deluxe spicy chicken sandwich.

What’s the best thing about Newt Gingrich?  He isn’t Mitt Romney.  One of Mr. Gingrich’s old friends explained it this way today:  Gingrich is staying in the race to forestall Romney’s leftward drift.  It reminds me of a TV gabfest I saw yesterday.  S.E. Cupp was being assailed by the MSDNC gang about right wing extremism.  She replied there were plenty of moderate Democrats driven from a party moving ever leftward in the 21^st Century.  As for right wing extremism, what’s the problem?  This country was founded by extremists and later the Civil War fought by extremists and all of the great political ideas sure as heck didn’t come from moderates.

Gingrich was on the show with me Wednesday (a link is provided at the bottom of the page).  As a former Upstate New Yorker I wasn’t happy when Gingrich backed moderate Republicans twice in Congressional primaries but I know why he made the decision.  He planned a later return to political office and he cast his lot with the candidates the GOP establishment promised were the best available.  “That’s the way the system works,” is the old adage I heard from politicians when I was a young reporter.  The voting public didn’t like it then and doesn’t like it now and today we’ve a major difference.  Americans don’t envision a pleasant future.  The politicians are like another old adage about generals at battle:  Always fighting the last war.  The angry town halls of 2010 and the Occupy demonstrations of this election cycle are about rage.  It appears to me the Tea Party has now moved from rage to despondency.  Just look at the choices we’ve got at state and national levels!  Even in my home county the conservative Republicans are ignoring the authority of a popularly elected Sheriff.

Newt Gingrich is the guy you knew in school with all the answers.  The smartest guy in the class, whereas Romney is the handsome fellow born with all the advantages.  He’s a nice fellow, I guess.  Happy family man and happy family but not much of a connection with the public, Romney is the product of an insular upbringing.  His fellow Republican candidates despised him four years ago and despise him today.  In Mitt’s defense it’s the weariness of being a member of a religious minority.  Gingrich is the guy you knew in school politicking all over the cafeteria and the playground and he always seemed to intuitively know what everyone wanted.  He did then.  I think he now fights the last war.

A few minutes before his appearance on the program a fellow telephoned and defended the absent Ron Paul.  I like Paul.  He appears to understand not just the crisis but the public anger.  He was also a bright student in school but by choice more of a wallflower with a nose buried in obscure and complex books.  Santorum is now history and I thought he understood the public unease but his solution often sounded like a call for the restoration of Christendom.  As a Catholic I’m intrigued but the United States is a product of the Protestant Reformation and the Age of Enlightenment.

In the old school days Michele Bachmann was the smartest and prettiest girl in class but she didn’t meet media notions of womanhood.  She managed a massive household and work but failed to promote promiscuity and the convenience of infanticide.  From day one she was a marked woman.  Our Thatcher, deferred.

Gingrich, with his outsized personality and sense of history could’ve adopted the cause.  He didn’t.  Had the professor not been still so grounded in his 90s battles with Bill Clinton and instead claimed much of what Paul and Bachmann brought to the arena, well…?

Gingrich would be making a triumphant victory march to his party’s convention.  Next January 20^th he would be standing before the throng and delivering a scintillating call for another reformation.  Instead we’ll get the plodding, uninspiring Romney.

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