Robin Garr wrote:Mark, I asked this before, but it may have got lost in the busy thread.
Would you say the same thing about Ollie McClung, the owner of Ollie's BBQ in Birmingham, Ala., who took the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the Supreme Court in an effort to maintain his belief that his restaurant should be able to choose to serve whites only?
The Supreme Court said no, and I sincerely feel that it would be hard for any decent person from our vantage point in 2012 to declare Ollie's position "admirable."
Do you see the Cathy family, owners of Chick-Fil-A and supporters of anti-gay hate groups to the tune of $5 million, as being different in some way?
Katzenbach v McClung
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/h ... 94_ZO.html
I definitely see a major difference because Chick-Fil-A does not demonstrate any of their views nor put them into their restaurants or their business practices. I've never seen nor heard of any incident in their restaurants or offices that involved any discriminatory practices, something much different than the case you cited!
In the case you cited he wasn't just supporting the discriminatory practice with money, he was trying to make it part of his business practice. That's something completely different.