Rahm Emanuel has joined the Boston mayor in supporting the movement to block Chick-Fil-A from expanding operations in his city. Greenwald, who is openly gay, takes them to task.

Quote:It’s always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It’s much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent. But having Mayors and other officials punish businesses for the political and social views of their executives — regardless of what those views are — is as pure a violation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech as it gets, and beyond that, is genuinely dangerous.

If you support what Emanuel is doing here, then you should be equally supportive of a Mayor in Texas or a Governor in Idaho who blocks businesses from opening if they are run by those who support same-sex marriage — or who oppose American wars, or who support reproductive rights, or who favor single-payer health care, or which donates to LGBT groups and Planned Parenthood, on the ground that such views are offensive to Christian or conservative residents. You can’t cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share. Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/26/rahm_ema...ch_attack/

While all this makes sense to a normal person, it would go right over the head of your typical liberal - there are just too many examples of it.

There will be an apparent absence of liberal's on this thread.

The guy is absolutely right

(07-26-2012 03:40 PM)ImMoreAwesomeThanYou Wrote:  There will be an apparent absence of liberal's on this thread.

Yep.

Is it legal for a Mayor to try to stop this restaurant operator form opening in their city?

The peeping Toms are too busy making threads about "who gives a darn, Mitt blah blah" than reply to a serious thread about lost Liberty.