I may not be wild about Chik-fil-A, but a mayor of a major U.S. city saying that a private company - again, a fast-food restaurant, not a napalm factory - isn't compatible with his city's values? That kind of squicked me out.
Boston's mayor now admits that he can't actually keep Chik-fil-A from opening there, which... you know what? Just- thank goodness. This is still America, where we're free to have opinions and act on them. The Chik-fil-A owners can do what they want with their corporate profits, and I can disapprove and stop contributing to those profits. But, to me, an agent of a government (in this case, the mayor of Boston) chiming in in this fashion - not as an individual, but as a public official - crossed the line.
The government represents the public, and it should be as religiously, politically and culturally neutral as possible.
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