Assembly Candidate: Bring Chik-Fil-A To New York

Actually, conservative values are alive and well where Russell Gallo is running, which includes the same neighborhoods where Bob Turner won and where David Storobin ran on a platform against same-sex marriage.  Perhaps a little research into the area would be good before you throw stones?

Bravo to Russell Gallo, a real American hero.

Christine Quinn’s economic McCarthyism should be condemned by all those who value freedom of speech and the basic principles of American life.

This has little to do with Gallo’s love of free enterprise and everything to do with  appealing to the district’s well-known embrace of homophobia.  Is Chick-fil-A even kosher? Doubt it! 

I don’t know how many times I am going to have to repeat myself to all of you Chick-fil-A loving troglodytes, but the issue here isn’t free speech. Nobody gives a damn that Dan Cathy voiced his opinion on same-sex marriage. Here is what we have the *beef* with:

Chick-fil-A makes regular, (large sum) monetary donations to an organization called Exodus International. This organization’s twisted “ex-gay” campaign, and missionary actions over in Uganda directly resulted in the Ugandan government passing a bill entitled the “Kill the Gays” bill which has been signed in to law – making it legal to torture and kill homosexuals.

Nobody with half a brain is trying to say that Dan Cathy does not have the right to his opinion. What we ARE saying is that he should not be funding groups that actively promote violence towards homosexuals.

I must also remind you, homosexuality is not a choice…that has been proven by the Human Genome Project, and the fact that it occurs in hundreds of other species on Earth. And even if you choose to ignore science (as many of you from blind-faith backgrounds do), and say that being gay is a choice…SO IS BEING CHRISTIAN! Religion is way more of a choice than being homosexual, and not only does religion receive equal protections under the law, IT IS GIVEN PRIVILEGES (tax exemptions being one of them). 

So the next time you say that you think gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry because homosexuality is a choice, and your religion says it is wrong; kindly refer to the 1st Amendment, and think about the protections that you receive by CHOOSING to be a Christian. Then you will see why the people with normally functioning cerebrums think it is an atrocity that you can even begin to think your religion should take precedent over people receiving equal rights

This is a conclusion our founding fathers came to when the quill first hit the parchment in Philadelphia:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, [...]”

Sincerely,       The Echo (echo, echo, echo)

Kudos to Gallo for standing up for free enterprise.  After years of a Democratic machine’s business killing policies there are so many vacant store fronts throughout Southern Brooklyn where Chick Fil A would fit just fine, not to mention bring much needed jobs.

What is passing for discussion among this gaggle of ignoramuses makes me think of an old Bob Dylan song. Obviously, the bigots of Brooklyn think they have God on their side:
“With God On Our Side”Oh my name it is nothin’My age it means lessThe country I come fromIs called the MidwestI’s taught and brought up thereThe laws to abideAnd the land that I live inHas God on its side.Oh the history books tell itThey tell it so wellThe cavalries chargedThe Indians fellThe cavalries chargedThe Indians diedOh the country was youngWith God on its side.The Spanish-AmericanWar had its dayAnd the Civil War tooWas soon laid awayAnd the names of the heroesI’s made to memorizeWith guns on their handsAnd God on their side.The First World War, boysIt came and it wentThe reason for fightingI never did getBut I learned to accept itAccept it with prideFor you don’t count the deadWhen God’s on your side.When the Second World WarCame to an endWe forgave the GermansAnd then we were friendsThough they murdered six millionIn the ovens they friedThe Germans now tooHave God on their side.I’ve learned to hate RussiansAll through my whole lifeIf another war comesIt’s them we must fightTo hate them and fear themTo run and to hideAnd accept it all bravelyWith God on my side.But now we got weaponsOf the chemical dustIf fire them we’re forced toThen fire them we mustOne push of the buttonAnd a shot the world wideAnd you never ask questionsWhen God’s on your side.In a many dark hourI’ve been thinkin’ about thisThat Jesus ChristWas betrayed by a kissBut I can’t think for youYou’ll have to decideWhether Judas IscariotHad God on his side.So now as I’m leavin’I'm weary as HellThe confusion I’m feelin’Ain’t no tongue can tellThe words fill my headAnd fall to the floorIf God’s on our sideHe’ll stop the next war.

Couldn’t do anything about the formatting…..did read your well-informed, eloquent comment. Ironic that you are an “Echo” in a wasteland of narrow-mindedness.

To this I say, f*** off, Russell Gallo.