The Intolerance of the Tolerant Intolerant

     The Boy Scouts of America and the Chick Fil-A Company came out with  statements in support of parental rights http://www.scouting.org/Media/PressReleases/2012/20120717.aspx   and traditional marriage http://www.ajc.com/news/chick-fil-a-president-1481215.html, and the militant gay establishment went nuts!  People tweeted vile things that were not true about what was in the statement.   facebook pages were made to boycott the establishments.  But if they had read the statements, nowhere did they bash or say anything bad about gays or any establishment about gays.  So I don't understand why  people are up in arms to this when for so long, everyone knows that Chick Fil-A is a Christian Organization.  So to get so offended when a private establishment  stands up for what they believe in seems a bit  political.    Are we not suppose to stand for anything in fear that someone is going to be labeled?  Its not like these organizations came out and bashed the gays.  They just came out and in essence said, "This is our organization, and this is what we believe."   What makes them think that its OK for one group to be labeled, but not another?  According to Webster's Dictionary, the term bigot is 

A person who regards

his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.  Hmmm.  'Intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own'.    Yeah,  I don't see Chick Fil -A or the Boy Scouts marching in the streets against the gays.  No, they just made a statement of  faith!    When California said yes to traditional marriage, it was the gays that protested in the streets and forced the matter to be overturned!   Yet, when Christians  stand up for something in accordance to their beliefs, its wrong and labeled.  If a Christian were to walk into a gay community and want to spread the Gospel,  what do you think would happen? Right, the gays would kick them out of the neighborhood or make their life a living hell.  But yet, the gay would not be a bigot because it was the Christian who came in to try to disrupt things with his Gospel, right? (a little sarcasm) So how come when the Christian stands up for what he believes in, (in which the moral structure of marriage between a man and woman has been in place since the beginning of time) is all of a sudden  looked upon as intolerant and bigoted?  It seems to me that a person of faith can not win at any cause.  Is this an attack on Christianity or Business?  With the political climate in today's zeitgeist, I would presume to say its both, since work and Christianity go hand in hand.  Yet militant gays get to keep their faith AND their intolerance?!  Now that seems a bit bigoted!   I say the word Bigot is bigoted in itself since it directs the label to someone who practices their beliefs, making the word therefore, obsolete. If anyone wants to use word labels, how about using this one to describe the whole controversy:  Heterophobia!  Christaphobia!

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