The blo­gos­phere and com­men­tariat has been all agog over state­ments by Chick-​​fil-​​A Pres­i­dent and COO Dan Cathy, who gave his frank opin­ion on same-​​sex mar­riage. On the Ken Cole­man radio show, he offered this wisdom:

We’re invit­ing God’s judg­ment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know bet­ter than you as to what con­sti­tutes a mar­riage. And I pray God’s mercy on our gen­er­a­tion that has such a pride­ful, arro­gant atti­tude that thinks we have the audac­ity to rede­fine what mar­riage is all about.

Chick-​​fil-​​A is a pri­vately held com­pany that has made no secret of their cor­po­rate cul­ture, which is built on an evan­gel­i­cal Chris­t­ian foun­da­tion. Chick-​​fil-​​A stores are closed on Sun­days. Hymns are piped into the PA sys­tem on the cor­po­rate campus.

Long ago, I learned that it’s unwise to (for exam­ple) put a polit­i­cal lawn sign out in front of a house for sale. The the­ory is that buy­ers would be just as likely to be turned off by my naked polit­i­cal pos­tur­ing as they would be likely to be sup­port­ive of my views. (more…)