Done.”Īs a gay man, I found myself disappointed with this definition-that anyone with any sort of moral reservations about gay marriage is by definition anti-gay. Then Raushenbush hauled out a familiar argument: “Let's just be very clear here -if you are against marriage equality you are anti-gay. The Huffington Post’s Paul Raushenbush quickly wrote up a response, saying that “The hard reality that Cardinal Dolan and all Christians need to face up to is that the Catholic Church along with every other church whether Orthodox, Protestant or Catholic has been horrifically, persistently and vehemently anti-gay for almost all of its history.” The question resurfaced last week when Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, claimed on Meet the Press that the Catholic Church is unfairly “caricatured” as anti-gay. The Facebook announcement gained nearly 15,000 likes and more than 6,200 shares, as well as inspiring the anti-corporate interest group The Other 98% to create a Muppets-themed poster featuring the quote, which went on to receive more than 34,000 likes and nearly 53,000 shares.What to make of Cardinal Timothy Dolan's claim that the Catholic Church has been unfairly caricatured as anti-gay? (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)ĭoes being against gay marriage make someone anti-gay?
#Anti gay meme update#
That same day, the Jim Henson Company posted an update on their official Facebook page announcing they had notified Chick-fil-A that they no longer wished to partner with the restaurant chain in the future and that they would donate the payments they received from the company to the LGBT advocacy organization GLAAD (The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). The same day, the Boston Herald published an interview with Menino, in which he stated he was looking to block Chick-fil-A from opening any restaurants in the city. On July 20th, Boston mayor Thomas Menino sent a letter to Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy denouncing the company's stance on gay marriage (shown below). On July 16th, an interview with Chick-fil-A's chief operating officer Dan Cathy was published in the Christian news service Baptist Press, in which Cathy revealed that the company did support a "traditional family." On July 18th, Cathy appeared on the syndicated radio show "The Ken Coleman Show" and stated that he believed advocating same-sex marriage would be "inviting God's judment on our nation." On July 2nd, 2012, Equality Matters published another report, stating that WinShape donated over $1.9 million to anti-gay groups including the Marriage & Family Foundation and the Family Research Council in 2010.
![anti gay meme anti gay meme](https://i.redd.it/txp8ihxwti471.jpg)
![anti gay meme anti gay meme](https://pics.onsizzle.com/timtime-ae-millie-bobby-brown-deletes-twitter-after-becoming-anti-gay-54377598.png)
On November 1st, the LGBT advocacy group Equality Matters published a report revealing that Chick-fil-A's charitable arm WinShape had donated over $1.7 million to anti-gay groups in 2009. On January 6th, Chick-fil-A posted a statement on its official Facebook page, downplaying the company's relationship with PFI by claiming it only provided sandwiches to the marriage seminars. On January 4th, 2011, Metro Weekly published an article titled "Is Chick-fil-A restaurant against gay rights?", which reported that the anti-gay marriage organization Pennsylvania Family Institute (PFI) listed American fast food restaurant chain Chick-fil-A as a co-sponsor of two marriage conferences.