Posted by Sir Four at 11:46am Jul 27 '12Following the anti-gay comments of the president of Chick-fil-A restaurants, Boston mayor Thomas Menino wrote a letter reading in part: "I was angry to learn on the heels of your prejudiced statements about your search for a site to locate in Boston. There is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it."
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel expressed a similar sentiment.
My first thought when hearing about this: what if it had been something like: the mayor of Salt Lake City saying there's no place for a pro-atheist establishment in his city? Or the mayor of Tucson menacing a business whose president expressed unpopular immigration views?
I think the views of Chick-fil-A's president absolutely suck, and people ought to feel free to denounce them or boycott the business. But a mayor using his position to basically intimidate a business based on the views expressed by its president...strikes me as over the line. It's an abuse of the position.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel expressed a similar sentiment.
My first thought when hearing about this: what if it had been something like: the mayor of Salt Lake City saying there's no place for a pro-atheist establishment in his city? Or the mayor of Tucson menacing a business whose president expressed unpopular immigration views?
I think the views of Chick-fil-A's president absolutely suck, and people ought to feel free to denounce them or boycott the business. But a mayor using his position to basically intimidate a business based on the views expressed by its president...strikes me as over the line. It's an abuse of the position.
Mayors of Boston and Chicago write to Chick-fil-A - Sir Four